Food & Beverage Manager

Brownsword Hotels; Bath; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge & gratuities

Management bonus scheme

Job summary

The Bath Priory, part of the Brownsword Hotels family, seeks a Food & Beverage Manager to lead front‑of‑house across two dining outlets and oversee meetings, events and room service. You’ll work closely with the Executive Chef and senior management to shape the guest journey and inspire a high‑performing team.

You’ll drive guest satisfaction, uphold luxury standards, manage labour and costs, and contribute to budget targets while delivering memorable dining experiences with warmth and flair.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-end dining environments (Michelin or Rosette preferred).
• Strong leadership with coaching and performance management.
• Confident presenter of menus, wine pairings and seasonal promotions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire front-of-house across two outlets to deliver exceptional guest experiences.
• Oversee events, meetings and room service with a focus on seamless service delivery.
• Develop and coach a high-performing team with continuous training and feedback.

Skills

Leadership

FOH management

Wine knowledge

Staff training

Job description

Come and join our team as a Food & Beverage Manager and let yourpassion and personality shine

We’re looking for an exceptional Food & Beverage Manager to lead the front-of-house across our two distinctive dining outlets:

• The Pantry Restaurant – relaxed, seasonal dining
• The Priory Restaurant – fine dining for breakfast, afternoon tea, and celebratory dinners

You’ll also oversee meetings and events operations, as well as room service, ensuring every guest experience is seamless and memorable.

This is a hands‑on role for someone passionate about outstanding food, fine wine, and running a dining room with confidence, warmth, and flair. Working closely with our Executive Chef and senior management team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the guest journey while leading and inspiring a high‑performing team.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• Lead and inspire the Food & Beverage operation todeliver consistently exceptional, guest experiences that reflect the hotel'sluxury positioning and service culture.
• Maintain an expert knowledge of all food and beverageofferings, ensuring teams are trained to confidently present menus, pairingsand seasonal promotions, delivering an elevated dining experience thatreinforces the hotel's luxury positioning.
• Develop, coach and retain a highly engaged team, fostering aculture of excellence, attention to detail and genuine hospitality throughcontinuous training and performance management.
• Ensure the highest standards of presentation, servicedelivery and product quality are maintained at all times, exceeding guestexpectations and luxury brand standards.
• Drive revenue, profitability and average spend across all F&Bareas (restaurant, bar, room service and events. Contributing to the achievementof budget and financial targets.
• Oversee effective labour planning, stock control,procurement and cost management, protecting profitability whilst maintaininguncompromising quality standards.
• Maintain full compliance with food safety, health andsafety, licensing and company standards, ensuring the department consistentlyachieves excellent audit results and operates as a showcase for best practice.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience in Michelin or 3 AA Rosette environments (preferred)
• Strong wine knowledge
• Proven ability to manage multiple outlets with a commercial mindset
• A true lead-from-the-front operator (essential)
• Confident, personable leader with a background in fine dining and luxury hospitality
• Bar and mixology knowledge (a plus)
• Someone who understands that great service is effortless, intuitive, and never stuffy

What We Offer

• Salary up to £50,000
• Approx. £2,500 in service charge & gratuities
• Management bonus scheme

The Operation:

• Pantry Restaurant: 40+ covers + additional 40+ seats on the Garden Terrace. All-day dining (7 days a week)
• Priory Restaurant: 50+ covers (3 AA Rosettes). Breakfast, Afternoon Tea everyday, and Dinner Service (Wednesday‑Sunday)
• Located at the heart of our 33‑bedroom hotel (1 Michelin Key, 5 AA Red Star)
• Your future team: 7full-time and 16 part‑time/casual FOH staff (including you)

Why You’ll Love It Here

• 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.
• Work alongside a talented and well-rounded team
• Real opportunities for career growth and personal development
• A culture that values personality as much as professionalism
• Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams toshow thoughtfulnesstowards each other and our guests.
• 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!
• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a 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 tobe 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.

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.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Canterbury - to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.ukIf you're the type of person that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch