Food & Beverage Manager

A fantastic opportunity for a Food & Beverage Manager to join us at Kimpton Clocktower, in the iconic The Refuge Restaurant and Bar! You will be working alongside the other Food & Beverage Managers, reporting to the Senior F&B Manager and the R&B General Manager, and of course manage/supervise shifts at The Refuge.

You will earn £15.38 per hour, equal to £32,000.00 salary + service charge. At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too. Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests.

Kimpton Clocktower is all about providing a contemporary luxury hotel experience whilst building heartfelt human connections with guests and colleagues – we call it Stay Human. What more could you ask? It’s not just the humans who feel this, we extend this to all our furry friends, because our heartfelt connection does not end with humans!

Working at Kimpton is not just about working and it’s certainly not like working at other places. We value personality, individuality, creativity, doing right, continually improving, focus and passion. Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Here, you will have space to:

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

Our Food & Beverage Managers support the Senior F&B Manager and the R&B General Manager, with the effective and efficient running of The Refuge team, with direct responsibility for the department ensuring financial targets are achieved whilst maintaining the highest of standards to ensure guest expectation is consistently exceeded.

Food & Beverage Manager communicates both internally within The Refuge team and externally, both with the wider hotel team and immediate locale to ensure the guest experience is personalised and always exceeds expectation.

To succeed as our Food & Beverage Manager, you will need:

• Food & Beverage duty management and team leadership experience for 2+ years in a hotel property of similar size & standard.
• To be able to perform a variety of activities as needed across all food and beverage departments, as a minimum; supervise a large-scale meeting, wedding or social event or host and supervise a service across all meal periods or supervise the service behind the bar(s).
• Demonstrates a thirst for knowledge with an understanding on critical issues and potential technology and trends in hotel food and beverage.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire and mentor a team.

Our Food & Beverage Managers enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Becoming part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts family, one of the world’s leading hotel companies - which means global opportunities!
• Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.
• Meals whilst on duty.
• 31 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated).
• We provide every colleague company sick pay and life insurance.
• Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world.
• Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema.
• Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today to join us as a Food & Beverage Manager! You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual’s race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

Don’t quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you’d be a great fit for the job? We’ll never know unless you hit the ‘Apply’ button. Start your journey with us today.