Food and Beverage Manager

Hyatt Place Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Jalil; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyatt Place Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Jalil invites an experienced Food and Beverage Manager to lead our new hotel’s F&B operations. You will oversee restaurant, ballroom events, and kitchens, ensuring service standards, profitability, and seamless guest experiences.

Requirements include a minimum of 5 years in a senior F&B role within an international hotel chain, pre-opening experience, and fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia; strong leadership and budgeting skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a senior F&B role within an international hotel chain.
• Proven profitability and strict service standards experience.
• Pre-opening hotel experience is a definite advantage.
• Education in Hotel management with F&B specialization.
• Fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia; strong communication skills.
• Ability to manage diverse teams and multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee F&B operations for restaurant, ballroom events, and kitchens.
• Ensure Hyatt standards, service quality, and kitchen cleanliness.
• Drive department profitability and cost control.
• Manage pre-opening setup, staffing, and training of the F&B team.

Skills

F&B management

Team leadership

Profitability mindset

Pre-opening experience

Education

Hotel management degree

Tools

MS Office

Recipe Maintenance systems

Job description

Come and join us in our journey as we care for people so they can be their best! We believe that being your best is about being your true self - engaged, fulfilled and ready to take on the world.

Hyatt Place Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Jalil- will mark the first Hyatt Place hotel in Malaysia. Located in Bukit Jalil, an affluent suburb located within the southern corridor of Kuala Lumpur, The hotel will feature approximately 250 guestrooms, a three-meal restaurant, Large Ballroom and 4 meeting rooms and flexible event space, Rooftop restaurant, a fitness centre, and a sky pool

We are currently looking for an experienced Food and Beverage Manager to join us as we open this exciting new hotel

As the head of the Food and beverage division, you’ll have the opportunity to exercise your expert knowledge, creativity and showcase your talents as a critical member of the hotel management team. You will lead and operate to ensure that the food and beverage service, the kitchens within the restaurant, ballroom events space operate successfully, in accordance with Hyatt standards, and that they are individually profitable.

An individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for great food and service, you will be confident and driven in your approach. You are known for your ability to communicate and negotiate at all levels, are detail orientated and must be able to constantly maintain high service standards and problem-solve with employees and guests. Must be able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and be constantly hands on and ready to lend expertise within other departments of the hotel.

Key Qualifications and requirements:

• Proven track record within a senior role, in managing food and beverage operations for a large hotel ballroom facility, event space and all day dining facility with an international brand hotel. Banquet experience is a must in a senior role is a must
• Track record to demonstrate the profitability of the department, positive staff engagement, passion for delivering good food and service and the ability to demonstrate a strict compliance for service standards, kitchen cleanliness and best practices
• Demonstrate a passion and proven results for coaching and leading hotel team members to achieve team success
• Previous hotel pre-opening experience with an international brand hotel, 200 rooms and above with large meeting facilities, is a definite advantage for this application.
• Education qualifications in Hotel management specializing in food and beverage
• A minimum of 5 years or more work experience as a Food and Beverage manager in a senior role within the Food and beverage department of an international chain hotel and have led a team of associates.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively interact with people of diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Bahasa Malaysia. Demonstrate the ability to use computer skills in MS office and Recipe Maintenance systems.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage and lead the department to ensure proper fiscal cost and revenue management and timely and accurate reporting.
• As a key hotel leader, the Food and Beverage manager must constantly be able to demonstrate key traits of - passion for people, creativity, and speed in task completion, service and implementing commercially sound decisions that benefit the greater good of the work environment.