Operations Manager

SPE Resourcing; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SPE Resourcing is seeking an exceptional leader to run a heritage food-led coaching inn and a neighbouring development converging into a multi-faceted resort. The role combines hospitality leadership with strategic growth as one business.

You will lead two distinct concepts, protect a kitchen with a strong visitor draw, and steer the bedrooms' development through opening, while keeping teams cohesive through change.

Responsibilities

• Lead two distinct and different food-led ...
• Protect a kitchen whose reputation already draws visitors
• Take the new bedrooms through development and opening
• Hold the teams together through change, and grow them
• Own the numbers: covers, rate, occupancy and RevPAR
• A hospitality professional's instinct for outstanding service with a hotelier's grip on rooms
• Significant food-led experience, focusing on local produce and provenance
• A steady hand through a development or opening
• Ready to commit to the local area for the long haul

Job description

Fancy running a destination rather than just a pub?

Our client, a heritage business with renewed vigour and focus, is bringing together a historic, food-led coaching inn, a neighbouring site being rebranded with clear focus on food and a significant rooms developments into a multi-faceted quality resort and destination.

The result is one food-driven destination with 30+ rooms, and we're looking for an exceptional leader to run it as one business.

• Lead two distinct and different food-led businesses and a growing rooms business as one
• Protect a kitchen whose reputation already draws visitors

• Take the new bedrooms through development and opening

• Hold the teams together through change, and grow them

• Own the numbers: covers, rate, occupancy and RevPAR

• A hospitality professional's instinct for outstanding service with a hotelier's grip on rooms

• Significant food-led experience, focusing on local produce and provenance

• A steady hand through a development or opening

• Ready to commit to the local area for the long haul

Glorious walking country, a business with real heritage, and sites going through significant development and change