Restaurant Manager

InterContinental Hotels Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Manchester is seeking an experienced Restaurant Manager to oversee The Refuge Restaurant. The role involves managing the restaurant team, ensuring high standards, and exceeding guest expectations. Ideal candidates will have over 2 years of experience in food and beverage management within a hotel setting. Join us to make a difference in our guests' dining experiences and lead a passionate team.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Extensive career training and progression

Financial wellbeing app (Wagestream)

Taxi subsidy for late shifts

Meals while on duty

31 days holiday annually

Life insurance and sick pay

Hotel and restaurant discounts

Discounts at 15,000+ stores

Refer a Friend programme

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in food & beverage management in a hotel.
• Ability to perform activities across food and beverage departments.
• Strong understanding of trends in hotel food and beverage.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior F&B Services Manager with running The Refuge team.
• Ensure financial targets are achieved while exceeding guest expectations.
• Communicate with the hotel team to personalize guest experiences.

Skills

Food & Beverage duty management

Team leadership

Supervising large-scale meetings

Mentoring a team

Job description

Overview

A fantastic opportunity for a Restaurant Manager to join us at Kimpton Clocktower, in the iconic The Refuge Restaurant and Bar!

You will be working alongside the other Restaurant Manager, reporting to the Senior F&B Services Manager and the R&B General Manager, and of course manage/supervise shifts at The Refuge!

We are offering a competitive pay + service charge.

The Refuge is a vibrant and bustling establishment in the heart of Manchester, renowned for its exceptional restaurant and bar experience. Nestled in the historic but with a modern twist – Kimpton Clocktower, we pride ourselves on delivering top-notch service and unforgettable experiences to our guests.

Kimpton Clocktower is all about providing a contemporary luxury hotel experience whilst building heartfelt human connections with guests and colleagues – we call it Stay Human. It’s not just the humans who feel this, we extend this to all our furry friends, because our heartfelt connection does not end with humans!

Benefits

• Becoming part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts family, one of the world’s leading hotel companies - which means global opportunities!
• Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice
• Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.
• Meals whilst on duty
• 31 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated)
• We provide every colleague company sick pay and life insurance
• Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world
• Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema
• Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

Responsibilities

Our Restaurant Manager supports the Senior F&B Services Manager and the R&B General Manager, with the effective and efficient running of The Refuge team, with direct responsibility for the department ensuring financial targets are achieved whilst maintaining the highest of standards to ensure guest expectation is consistently exceeded.

Restaurant Managers communicate both internally within The Refuge team and externally, with the wider hotel team and immediate locale to ensure the guest experience is personalised and always exceeds expectation.

Qualifications

• Food & Beverage duty management and team leadership experience for 2+ years in a hotel property of similar size & standard.
• Ability to perform a variety of activities across all food and beverage departments, including supervising large-scale meetings, weddings or social events, hosting and supervising a service across all meal periods, or supervising service behind the bar(s).
• Demonstrates a thirst for knowledge with an understanding of critical issues and potential technology and trends in hotel food and beverage.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire and mentor a team.

At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too. Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests!

Working at Kimpton is not just about working and it’s certainly not like working at other places. We value personality, individuality, creativity, doing right, continually improving, focus and passion.

Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Culture and Expectations

Here, you will have space to:

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today to join us as a Restaurant Manager!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual\'s race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.