General Manager - Market Harborough

Lounge Café Bars; Market Harborough; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a thriving café bar as a General Manager, where you'll lead a passionate team to create a welcoming environment for customers. With a competitive salary and exciting perks, including bonuses and career progression opportunities, this is a fantastic chance to make an impact in the hospitality sector.

Benefits

Annual salary up to £43,000

Potential annual bonus of up to £5,000

Paid breaks

28 days holiday (pro rata)

Staff discount of 50%

Company pension scheme

Long service awards

Development and career progression opportunities

Tips shared equally across the team

Christmas and Boxing Day off

Qualifications

• Experience as General Manager, Assistant Manager, Deputy Manager, or Restaurant Manager.
• Background in restaurants, bars, cafés, or coffee shops.
• Familiarity with KPIs, labor management, and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Oversee operations and maintain brand standards.
• Manage recruitment and training of front of house teams.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Satisfaction

Team Management

Decision Making

Job description

General Manager - Market Harborough

Lounges are pretty special places, and what makes them so special is the brilliant people who run them. The person who runs the brilliant people who run the Lounge has to be super-brilliant, and that'll be you. Your standards will be as high as ours, but exactly how you do it will be unique to you. You'll be responsible for leading your team to deliver 14 great shifts, taking full ownership so your Lounge is an amazing and unique place to work and a great place to be for the local community. You'll be making sure every customer leaves happy. Which they tend to do. Thanks to your super-brilliant management

The Good Stuff

• Annual salary up to 43,000
• 40 and 48 hour contracts available
• Additional earnings from our annual bonus scheme of up to 5,000 for General Managers
• We work hard to ensure you don't work over your contracted hours, but if at times this does happen you will receive overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
• Staff food on every shift
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
• Paid breaks
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
• The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
• Achievable bonuses
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!

What you'll bring

• You are probably an existing General Manager, Assistant Manager, Deputy Manager or Restaurant manager with a background in restaurants, bars, caf or coffee shops.
• You will have experience of working in a bar environment with serving freshly made food and drinks preparation.
• You will be familiar with managing through clear KPIs and making decisions considering labour; stock; food safety requirements, customer sentiment plus others in line with brand standards and a budget.
• You will have delivered successful training and recruitment for front of house teams including servers through to Assistant Managers.
• Ideally some experience back of house, understand what makes kitchen and kitchen teams click would be preferable.

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