Food & Beverage Manager

LQ Resorts

Woodbridge

On-site

GBP 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Discounts across the resort

Free onsite parking

Progression and career development

Pension Scheme

Free staff meals

Free gym membership

Wellness programmes access

Share of service charges

Extra days holiday after 2 years

Job summary

LQ Resorts is seeking an experienced Food & Beverage Manager to lead all F&B departments across the resort. The role focuses on smooth running, maintaining positive financial returns, and sustaining best-practice operations to provide guests with an outstanding experience.

Responsibilities include staffing and budget management, ensuring health and safety compliance, and driving service standards across all outlets. A strong leadership style and guest-service passion are essential.

Qualifications

Experience managing multiple F&B areas in a resort.
Strong leadership and team development skills.
Knowledge of health, safety and hygiene standards.

Responsibilities

Work with the Manager to ensure stock is replenished and control procedures are followed.
Recruit, develop and maintain a strong F&B team across the resort.
Champion a training culture to nurture talent and succession planning.
Drive quality and value to deliver an exceptional guest experience.
Review product ranges to maintain high quality standards.
Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and hygiene requirements.
Maintain and enforce brand standards with monthly audits.
Plan and review rotas to meet staffing and service benchmarks.
Manage budgets for F&B areas and act as events department rep.

Skills

Quality F&B operation

Organised communication

Leadership

Brand standards

Guest service

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the senior resort team for an experienced manager to lead all food and beverage departments across the resort. The successful applicant will assist in smooth running of all food and beverage areas at the resort whilst maintaining positive financial returns. This will be driven by ensuring all working methods are constantly reviewed so that best practice is achieved in order to provide our guests with the best possible experience., An exciting opportunity has arisen within the senior resort team for a Food & Beverage Manager to lead all food and beverage departments across the resort. The successful applicant will assist in smooth running of all food and beverage areas at the resort whilst maintaining positive financial returns. This will be driven by ensuring all working methods are constantly reviewed so that best practice is achieved in order to provide our guests with the best possible experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

Work closely with the Manager to ensure stock is replenished and kept to current levels and that stock control procedures are followed.
Recruit, maintain and develop a strong team across all food and beverage areas at the resort.
Champion a training culture within the team that maintains knowledge and skills within the team and encourages and nurtures talent for succession planning.
Drive quality and value that ensures a great guest experience, by being obsessed with high standards and hospitality
Constantly review the product range to ensure quality standards are maintained
Ensure strict compliance with all relevant Health and Safety legislation and requirements
Ensure that the industry standard is maintained with regard to safety and hygiene.
Collate and disseminate food safety alerts to all relevant areas.
Responsible for maintaining and helping to enforce agreed brand standards, by conducting monthly audits.
Plan and review rota costs and ensure staffing levels are at the appropriate levels to drive conversion and meet benchmark hours whilst delivering exceptional service.
Meet and manage all budgets for your areas.
Be the department representative for events.
Form strong relationships with fellow HODs
Monitor progress on the delivery of the strategy operationally and also through the P&L.
Work closely with external contractors and suppliers to ensure deliveries are completed within agreed timeframes.
This job description is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to carry out other reasonable tasks as specified by their manager.

Keys Skills

Experience working within a quality Food and Beverage operation
Organised with strong communication skills
Strong leaderships skills and qualities
Good understanding of F&B business operations, results driven and able to deliver brand standards
Passion for delivering excellent service

All staff Key Performance Measures

Our values underpin everything we do here at LQ Resorts and staff should ensure that these are at the fore front of what they do, day to day.
To focus on the guest experience at all times and continually strive to delight time after time
To see each guest as part of a long-term relationship not a onetime event
To create a team that is enthusiastic, consistent and committed in the workplace that encourages an open honest and supportive culture, by working together to create excellence.
To create an organisation with high integrity, that recognises potential and success, that both guests and employees want to be part of and associated with
To encourage our team to contribute to excellent working conditions for all
To gain a reputation for delivering financial performance and being consumed and enthralled about business.

High standards of presentation and organisation