Food & Beverage Manager

Vesta Hospitality; Brunswick (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Vesta Hospitality is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to oversee banquets, restaurant, beverage and kitchen operations. You will drive top-line revenue while controlling costs, and ensure compliance with safety and sanitation standards.

You will lead a team across all F&B outlets, develop budgets and forecasts, nurture client relationships, and coordinate with other departments on capital projects. Strong leadership, sales mindset and guest service excellence are essential.

Qualifications

• Education/experience aligned with F&B management; sales exposure preferred.
• Must read, write and speak English; strong communication skills.
• Experience with hotel computer systems is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage all F&B operations at the unit, ensuring quality standards are maintained.
• Maintain positive client and guest relations and respond to requests.
• Ensure financial performance of the department.
• Take an active role in the sale of the hotel and its facilities.
• Nurtures local relationships with community leaders.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety standards across all outlets.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, purchasing and inventory control.
• Supervise scheduling, training, evaluations and recognition.
• Coordinate rehabilitation and capital improvement projects with other departments.
• Implement service and management philosophy across the team.

Skills

English language

Leadership

Customer service

Communication

Sales ability

Team leadership

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent

Tools

Scheduling software

Excel / Spreadsheet

Database systems

Word processing / Docs

Email / CRM

Job description

The Food & Beverage Manager is responsible for organizing, managing and directing the areas of banquets, restaurant, beverage and kitchen; for generating profit to meet or exceed budget while focusing on top line revenue, goals and cost containment.

Essential Duties:

• Manage all F&B operations at the unit, ensuring quality standards are maintained in terms of product, service, safety and sanitation.
• Maintain positive client and guest relations. Respond to client requests and ensure alignment to company standards. Investigate and follow through on client and guest complaints.
• Ensures financial performance of the department.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take an active role in the sale of the hotel and its facilities to achieve the overall department sales goals.
• Nurtures local relationships with community leaders.
• Ensure and maintain cleanliness, service and product quality standards of all food outlets in accordance with federal, state, local and company health, sanitation and safety standards and regulations.
• Lead, direct and administer all F&B operations to include, but not limited to, of systems use and management, budgeting and forecasting, purchasing and inventory control, department management, policy and procedure implementation and enforcement and meeting participation and facilitation.
• Monitor and develop team member performance to include, but not limited to, providing supervision and professional development, scheduling, conducting counseling and evaluations and delivering recognition and reward.
• Participate in the coordination of rehabilitation and capital improvement projects in partnership with other departments.
• Implement and maintain service and management philosophy that serves as a guide to respective associates.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains punctual, regular and predictable attendance.
• Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation.
• Displays excellent communication skills including presentation, persuasion, and negotiation skills required in working with guests and coworkers and including the ability to communicate effectively and remain calm and courteous under pressure.
• Respectfully takes direction from supervisor.
• Complies with all safety policies, practices and procedures and reports all unsafe activities to supervisor.
• Participates in proactive team efforts to achieve hotel and company goals.
• Provides leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge and skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position directly oversees and supervises all positions of the department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Supervisory responsibilities include, but are not limited to performing the following duties: hiring, assigning work, orientation, training and development, evaluating performance, elevating compensation, rewarding performance, mentoring, approving time off and scheduling, resolving complaints, disciplinary action and associate separations, effective staffing procedures, awareness of and response to associate morale problems, and supervising workload during shifts.

QUALIFICATIONS

Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of employee or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Education and/or Experience: Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or two to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with hotel computer systems and making sales calls is strongly preferred. Language Skills: Must be able to read, write and speak English. Must be able to read and interpret simple and complex documents, reports, manuals and correspondence. Must be able to write simple and complex documents, reports, and correspondence. Must be able to speak effectively with clear speech to individuals and groups.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Computer Skills: Job requires specialized computer skills. Must be adept at using various applications including database, spreadsheet, report writing, project management, graphics, word processing, presentation creation/editing, communicate by e-mail and use scheduling software.

Reasoning Ability: Must be able to apply common-sense logic and understanding to carry out instructions provided in written and/or oral form. Must have the ability to solve problems involving several variables in given situations and interpret a variety of instructions provided in written and/or oral form. Must be able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, sound judgment and decision-making.