General Manager

Boston Tea Party; Chichester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daytime trading

Job summary

Boston Tea Party is seeking a hands-on General Manager to run one of its cafés in Chichester, leading from the floor and building a brilliant team.

You will own the day-to-day operations, driving growth, delivering outstanding hospitality, managing costs and developing staff in a community-focused setting.

This daytime-led role offers autonomy to shape your café and nurture the next generation of Boston leaders within an independent, supportive business.

Qualifications

• Love hospitality and leading people.
• Experience in general management roles is preferred.
• Ability to drive growth and build strong teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and develop an incredible café team.
• Create a culture where people feel valued, challenged and able to grow.
• Deliver consistently brilliant hospitality, even when there’s a queue out the door.
• Know your business inside out, from sales and labour to waste and profitability.
• Recruit great people and develop the next generation of Boston leaders.
• Make your café part of its local community, building relationships beyond our four walls.
• Keep standards high across food, coffee, safety and everything in between.
• Look for opportunities to grow your café rather than simply keeping it ticking over.

Skills

People leadership

Hospitality excellence

Team development

Recruitment

Job description

Be the person who makes it happen.

We’re looking for a brilliant General Manager to lead one of our Boston Tea Party cafés.

This isn’t a role for someone who wants to manage from the office. Our GMs are right at the heart of their cafés, leading from the floor, building brilliant teams, getting to know their regulars and creating the kind of place people genuinely want to work in and visit.

You’ll have the freedom to make your café your own, backed by a business that believes great hospitality starts with great people.

What you'll be doing

You’ll take ownership of the whole café: your people, your customers, your community and your numbers.

That means you’ll:

• Build, lead and develop an incredible café team.
• Create a culture where people feel valued, challenged and able to grow.
• Deliver consistently brilliant hospitality, even when there’s a queue out the door.
• Know your business inside out, from sales and labour to waste and profitability.
• Recruit great people and develop the next generation of Boston leaders.
• Make your café part of its local community, building relationships beyond our four walls.
• Keep standards high across food, coffee, safety and everything in between.
• Look for opportunities to grow your café rather than simply keeping it ticking over.

Who we're looking for

You don't need to have worked at Boston before, but you do need to love hospitality and love leading people.

You might already be a General Manager, Restaurant Manager or Store Manager, or you could be a brilliant Assistant Manager who's ready for the next step.

More importantly, you'll be someone who:

Fuels Growth
You want to make things better. You develop people, understand your numbers and aren't afraid to set ambitious goals.

Leads Responsibly
You do the right thing, even when nobody's watching. You take ownership, set the standard and create an environment where your team can thrive.

Makes Connections
You know hospitality is about people. You build genuine relationships with your team, your customers and the community around your café.

What's in it for you?

We want Boston to be somewhere you can build a career, not just have a job.

Alongside your salary, you'll get a great package of Boston benefits, plenty of development and the support to become an even better leader.

You'll also get something increasingly rare in hospitality: a role built around daytime trading, without the late-night finishes.

And because we're an independent business, you'll have the space to bring your personality and ideas to your café. We don't want 22 identical GMs running 22 identical cafés. We want brilliant leaders creating brilliant Boston teams.

Good Eggs Only

We've been doing things a little differently since 1995.

We were the first coffee chain in the world to completely remove single‑use takeaway cups. We care about the communities we’re part of, the impact we have and, most importantly, the people who make Boston what it is.

So if you’re ambitious, commercially switched‑on, genuinely care about people and believe hospitality should feel human, we'd love to hear from you.

Come and run a café you can be proud of.