F&B Director

Avion Hospitality; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality company in Saint Petersburg, Florida is seeking an experienced F&B Director to manage all food and beverage operations. The role involves ensuring high-quality service across multiple outlets, enhancing sales revenues, and developing a skilled team while maintaining budget efficiency. Applicants should have extensive hotel experience and a strong background in food and beverage management. This position offers a full-time employment opportunity, focusing on both guest satisfaction and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a hotel or related field.
• Certifications in Food Handling, Alcohol Awareness, CPR, and First Aid.
• Extensive experience in restaurant management and catering.

Responsibilities

• Ensure excellent service across all F&B outlets.
• Maintain budget adherence for payroll and costs.
• Work towards increasing sales revenues.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Financial analysis

Leadership

Time management

Education

2-year or 4-year college degree

Culinary Degree

Tools

Windows operating systems

Spreadsheets

Word processing software

Job description

F&B Director – Avion Hospitality

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The Food & Beverage Director is responsible for assuring attentive, friendly, courteous and efficient service in all F&B Outlets (Restaurant, Room Service, Lounge, Market and Banquets) while maintaining adherence to budgeted payroll and overhead cost. He/she is also responsible for continually working towards improving Restaurant, Room Service, Lounge, Market and Banquet sales revenues to meet or exceed the budget. The Director of Food and Beverage is responsible for directing and organizing the activities of the Food and Beverage Department to ensure a consistently high-quality food product while at the same time developing his/her team and driving a positive work environment. In addition, this position is charged with consistently improving guest and employee satisfaction. The incumbent in this role may function in the role of a Chef, as required.

Responsibilities

• Assure attentive, friendly, courteous and efficient service across all F&B outlets.
• Maintain adherence to budgeted payroll and overhead cost.
• Work towards improving sales revenues in Restaurant, Room Service, Lounge, Market and Banquet to meet or exceed budget.
• Direct and organize activities of the Food and Beverage Department to ensure consistently high-quality food product.
• Develop team and drive a positive work environment.
• Consistently improve guest and employee satisfaction.
• Function as Chef as required.

Qualifications & Education

• At least 5 years of progressive experience in a hotel or related field, a 2-year college degree, and 3 or more years of related experience; or a 4-year college degree and at least 1 to 2 years of related experience; or a Culinary Degree with 1 to 2 years of progressive experience in a hotel or related field.
• Holds and maintains applicable certification requirements for position to include: Food Handlers, Alcohol Awareness, CPR and First Aid.
• Must be proficient in Windows operating systems, company-approved spreadsheets and word processing.
• Extensive experience in restaurant bar, banquet, catering, in-room dining, and kitchen management required.
• Must be able to convey information and ideas clearly.
• Must be able to evaluate and select among alternative courses of action quickly and accurately.
• Must work well in stressful, high pressure situations, maintaining composure and objectivity under pressure.
• Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying and solving problems as necessary.
• Must have the ability to assimilate complex information, data, etc., from disparate sources and consider, adjust or modify to meet the constraints of the particular need.
• Must be effective at listening to, understanding, clarifying and resolving the concerns and issues raised by co-workers and guests.
• Must be able to work with and understand financial information and data, and basic arithmetic functions. Have the ability to analyze, forecast data, and make judgments to ensure proper payroll and production control.
• Familiar with the general organization of a Hotel and know the function of each department.
• Communicates in a timely and efficient manner, possess strong communication skills, excellent speaking, reading and writing skills, computer skills and basic technological acumen.
• Knowledge and experience with forecasting, budgeting, labor management, and purchasing to ensure maximum productivity.
• Must be able to complete all applicable forecasting and budgeting in a timely and efficient manner.
• Maintain a professional working relationship and promote open lines of communication with managers, employees and other departments.
• Knowledgeable and aware of local competition and industry trends.

Employment Type

Full-time