Food & Beverage Manager

Apex Hotels; Dunblane; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days holiday

Training and development from day one

Employee events and celebrations

Inhouse company app for communication

Gym and pools access

Healthy meals on shift

Employee Assistance Programme

Financial Wellbeing app – early pay

Job summary

Apex Hotels in Dunblane seeks a Food & Beverage Manager to lead all F&B operations for flagship venues, including a new restaurant and bar concepts, plus extensive banqueting facilities.

You will drive annual profit growth across all F&B outlets, work with the Head Chef on menu development, and build a high-performing, guest-focused team while delivering exceptional guest experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience of large scale conference and events business.
• Proven track record in growing and developing restaurants and bars.
• Clear and influencing communication skills across all levels.
• Ability to adapt and drive continuous growth with a transformational mindset.
• Strong organisation skills and ability to multitask.
• Solid understanding of profit and loss accounts.
• Sales and profit driven mentality.
• Coaching and supporting mentality that delivers operational results.
• Skills to translate strategies into practical plans.
• Ability to deploy time‑in‑motion exercises to optimise costs.
• Skills to build a guest‑centric team culture.
• Passion for creating an open environment.
• Food Safety Management at Level 3 or above or willingness to achieve.

Responsibilities

• Deliver outlet profit targets while managing annual budgets.
• Lead weekly/monthly commercial meetings with operational teams and GM/Operations Manager to review KPIs.
• Payroll/food & beverage cost analysis to ensure cost control and variances are addressed.
• Work with Head Chef on culinary development and delivering brand-aligned offerings.
• Develop a multi-skilled team with payroll flexibility and a flat structure.
• Create and deliver annual commercial plans with operations, procurement, sales and marketing teams.
• Deliver monthly Net Promoter and Guest Review Index indicators.
• Maintain high visibility during peak service periods to focus on guest delivery.
• Own in-stay and post-stay F&B service feedback and CRM to profile guests.
• Drive guest-centric service excellence across all outlets.

Skills

Large scale events

Restaurants & bars growth

Team leadership

Cost control & profitability

Communication across levels

Strategic thinking

Multitasking

Budgeting & P&L

Guest-centric culture

Transformational mindset

Education

Food Safety Level 3

Job description

Why Join Apex Hotels?

You’ll be welcomed into Apex Hotels with genuine warmth as you join us as a Food & Beverate Manager in Dunblane. From your very first day, you’ll be part of a team that truly cares, where people feel valued, included, and connected. We love individuality - it’s what brings the spark, the curiosity, and the human touch to every interaction.

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Food and Beverage Manager to join our team as this is a role which will impact and influence key decisions and strategies within the business, looking after our flagship food and beverage hotel, with brand new restaurant and bar concepts, and large scale banqueting and confferencing facilities. You will embrace every opportunity to create extra special moments for our guests to provide a personal experience our guests will want to share.

We are looking for an innovative and productive leader to join our team, who is results driven with a keen eye for detail and with a clear objective of delivering sustainable annual departmental profit growths across all F&B outlets. You will spearhead an exciting productivity and growth drive across the hotels’ outlets.

Main Responsibilities:

• Delivery of outlet profit targets whilst successfully handling annual budgets
• Hosting of weekly and monthly commercial meetings with operational teams and Area General Manager /Operations Manager reviewing key metrics and performance indicators
• Daily / weekly payroll / food / beverage cost analysis in accordance with forecasted and materialised revenues to ensure optimal performance and immediate overspend correction
• Work closely with the Head Chef on culinary development and delivering a quality offering designed appropriately for each brand and individual location
• Develop a multi skilled team that delivers payroll flexibility with minimal hierarchy
• Creation and delivery of annual commercial plans in conjunction with the operations, procurement, sales and marketing teams
• Delivery of monthly Net Promoter and Guest Review Index service indicators
• High visibility during key service periods to ensure a continuous focus on customer delivery
• Maintaining a team focus on ‘the Customer’s need’ with service personalisation
• Ownership and management of outlet CRM to build and qualify guest profiling
• Ownership of the full in stay and post stay food and beverage service feedback

About you:

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have:

• Experience of large scale conference and events business
• Proven track record in growing and developing restaurants and bars.
• Clear and influencing communication skills with the ability to interact across all levels
• Ability to adapt and drive continuous growth with a transformational mindset
• Strong organisation skills with the ability to multitask
• Detailed understanding of profit and loss accounts
• Sales and profit driven mentality
• Coaching, supporting, challenging mentality that delivers operational results
• Skills in translating strategies into practical plans
• Ability to deploy time in motion exercises ensuring optimum cost engineering
• Skills to build and develop a guest centric team culture
• Passion for creating an open environment
• Food Safety Management at level 3 or above or a willingness to achieve this with business support

You will work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:

• 35 days holiday
• Training and development from day one
• Employee events and celebrations
• Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
• Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
• Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.

Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……

• Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
• Involvement in our employee recognition schemes
• Long service recognition
• Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
• 50% discount in our restaurants
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
• Spa treatments and product discounts
• Life Assurance cover

Come and join our team, guided by our values of trust, friendliness, teamwork, and passion - the good stuff that makes hospitality feel effortless. Here, you’ll shine in your own way, creating joyful moments that lift the everyday.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.