Food and Beverage Manager

Hours: 40 hours per week (Any five days in seven)

Edgbaston Park Hotel is a stylish and modern hotel located on the beautiful suburbs of Edgbaston, within close proximity to Birmingham City Centre. Owned by the University of Birmingham - a world top 100 university - we opened our doors in 2018 and have quickly established ourselves as one of the leading hotels in Birmingham.

Our contemporary building houses 185 bedrooms, the popular 1900 restaurant. alongside a chic bar, and lounge. We also offer a variety of impressive meeting and event facilities, making us the perfect destination for both business and leisure guests.

As a senior manager in one of the Hotel’s key functions, you will play a crucial role in the Hotel achieving its vision of being a world-leading hospitality destination.

Accountable for setting and delivering the F&B strategy, KPIs and service standards across the multi-unit, multi-menu environment, you will be responsible for the strategic development of the service, leadership of the overall team and the development and coaching of senior F&B colleagues.

Please see our website to fully appreciate our first-class facilities set in one of Birmingham’s most prestigious locations.

The key activities you will lead on, include:

• Ensuring the F&B strategy and KPIs are delivered, through the planning, development and continuous review and revision of outlet concepts, for all F&B areas.
• Leading the F&B team to ensure operational needs are met, guest expectations are exceeded, and staff are motivated, engaged and developed.
• Coaching and developing your team and engaging them in any change initiatives.
• Monitoring and maintaining the highest standards health, safety and hygiene within all F&B outlets in the hotel and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Leading on the pro-active planning and introduction of a varied and cost-effective programme of innovative and engaging initiatives and promotions to successfully retain and grow our customer base.
• Leading on the creation and delivery of an F&B commercial sales plan, aligned to the hotels 5-year plan, in collaboration with the commercial team.
• Ensuring that sales are on budget and that opportunities to make efficiencies and increase income are maximised.
• Being relentless in the pursuit of improvement of standards by developing, implementing and conducting continuous reviews.
• Undertaking Duty Manager shifts on a rota basis.

With a genuine passion for setting high standards and delivering exceptional levels of guest service, we are looking for someone with substantial relevant senior F&B experience in an accommodation business, excellent commercial awareness and substantial experience in managing, engaging and leading a team to deliver to the highest level. With the support of the senior team, we are looking for someone who has the ability and ambition to take our F&B offering to the next level.

What we can offer you

We offer a competitive salary, an amazing staff benefits and discounts platform, pension scheme, hotel discounts for staff and family, meals on duty, discounted WM travel card, uniform, incentives and recognition schemes, training and career development opportunities and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP scheme).

We value diversity and inclusivity and are committed to creating a welcoming and supportive work environment for all employees.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier, should a suitable applicant be appointed.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• F&B Manager: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 02/04/2023
Reference ID: EPH/F&BM/0323