Food & Beverage Manager

Andrew Brownsword hotels; Bath; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious hotel group in Bath is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to lead their restaurant team. This role involves ensuring exceptional service, training staff, and recruiting team members to create memorable guest experiences. With a focus on teamwork and work-life balance, this position offers competitive pay, management bonuses, and numerous perks including discounts and opportunities for internal career progression.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Retail and hospitality perks

Employee Assistance Programme

Meals provided on duty

Unique development pathways

Opportunities for progression

Milestone awards

Qualifications

• Experience in a management role within hospitality.
• Strong knowledge of food & beverage service.
• Willingness to train and recruit new staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the restaurant team to ensure exceptional service.
• Assist in recruiting the best staff for the team.
• Train new staff members to maintain a high service standard.
• Ensure guests have memorable experiences.

Skills

Leadership

Excellent communication

Team building

Customer service

Job description

Location : The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey‑coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi‑award‑winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5‑star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel‑every penny received is paid out to the team.

Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)

Come and join our team as a Food & Beverage Manager and let your passion and personality shine.

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Food & Beverage Manager you will lead our restaurant team and ensure we always providing exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories that last a lifetime.

Check out some of the key points about the role.

We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we ask that you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they ask for help.

• When we need new team members, you will recruit the best staff for your team.

Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.

You spend a lot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and we encourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across all teams.

Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.

We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

Work / life, or as it should be called life / work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

Bonus : That's right- we have a management bonus scheme at our hotels- for all Heads of Department positions and above. We'll let you know all about this at the interview!

To say thank you, we have many perks :

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious . Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.