Food & Beverage Director – Strategy & Performance

Hyatt; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Organization- India Consultancy Private Limited is seeking an F&B Director – Strategy & Performance to establish planning, reporting, analytics and performance-management discipline for regional F&B. You will provide insights into portfolio performance, support budget processes and coordinate improvements across hotels and outlets.

The role requires 15+ years in F&B performance and hotel finance, with strong budgeting, P&L, and KPI design experience, plus cross-functional stakeholder

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in F&B performance, hotel finance, and multi-unit operations.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, P&L analysis, benchmarking and KPI design.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional F&B budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Define regional KPIs and reporting standards for performance visibility.
• Develop strategic analyses, business cases and recommendations.
• Coordinate improvement plans for underperforming hotels or outlets.
• Collaborate with Finance on F&B P&L, capex and ROI analyses.
• Promote data-driven decision making through dashboards and tools.

Skills

F&B performance

Budgeting & forecasting

P&L analysis

KPI design

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Hotel Management degree

Finance or Business degree

Tools

Excel

Financial modelling

BI dashboards

Job description

Organization- India Consultancy Private Limited

Summary

Position Summary

The F&B Director – Strategy & Performance will establish the planning, reporting, analytical and performance-management discipline for regional F&B.

The role will provide accurate and timely insight into portfolio performance, support budget and forecast processes, maintain regional KPIs and tools, coordinate improvement plans and prepare executive-level materials for decision-making.

Regional F&B Strategy and Annual Planning

• Support the Director of F&B in preparing the annual F&B strategy and operating plan.
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable initiatives, targets and milestones.
• Coordinate inputs from Culinary, FOH/Bar, Events, Marketing and hotels.
• Prepare strategic analysis, business cases and recommendations.
• Track progress against annual priorities and identify emerging risks and opportunities.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Planning

• Coordinate the regional F&B budget and forecast process.
• Establish planning timelines, templates, assumptions and submission requirements.
• Review hotel submissions for completeness, consistency and commercial logic.
• Analyse forecast changes, gaps and variances.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile F&B reporting with official financial results.

KPI, Reporting and Performance Management

• Define and maintain regional F&B KPIs and reporting standards.
• Produce weekly flashes, monthly performance packs and quarterly reviews.
• Lead benchmarking across hotels, outlets and markets.
• Provide clear explanations of performance drivers and variances.
• Ensure reports are accurate, timely, concise and decision-oriented.

Portfolio Improvement and Performance Enablement

• Coordinate structured improvement plans for underperforming hotels or outlets.
• Support hotels in diagnosing revenue, cost, productivity, control and profitability gaps.
• Establish baselines, targets and benefits for improvement initiatives.
• Monitor implementation progress and escalated delays.
• Evaluate whether interventions are producing measurable results.

P&L, Business Cases and Commercial Analysis

• Partner with Finance on F&B P&L delivery, business cases, capex and return-on-investment analysis.
• Analyse revenue, profitability, food cost, beverage cost, labour productivity and outlet performance.
• Highlight risks to revenue, profitability, cost and productivity.
• Provide recommendations to improve commercial outcomes.
• Support strategic projects, openings, conversions and repositioning initiatives with financial analysis.

Systems, Tools and Digital Enablement

• Partner with IT and systems teams on F&B reporting and operating tools.
• Improve data availability, accuracy, consistency and usability.
• Support dashboard, reporting and automation initiatives.
• Ensure hotel teams understand reporting requirements and tools.
• Promote practical use of data in operating decisions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in F&B performance, hotel finance, commercial planning, business analytics or multi-unit operations.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, P&L analysis, benchmarking and KPI design.
• Experience in portfolio performance management and improvement planning.
• Strong understanding of hotel F&B operations, outlet economics, cost controls and profitability drivers.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders, Finance, hotel teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, business-partnering and executive-communication skills.
• Hospitality-sector and multi-market experience preferred.

Education and Expertise (i.e. certificates, licenses, etc.)

• Degree or diploma in Hotel Management, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or a related field.
• Finance, analytics, business or management qualification preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, financial modelling, business-intelligence tools, dashboards and reporting systems.
• Working knowledge of project-management, collaboration and presentation tools.