Regional Food & Beverage Manager/Director UK in London

Millennium Hotels and Resorts UK are looking for a Regional Food & Beverage Manager/Director UK to lead and drive our food and beverage strategy across multiple hotel portfolios. In this role, you will direct a cross‐functional team to develop and deliver innovative F&B concepts and solutions, ensuring our offerings enhance commercial performance, strengthen brand recognition and create outstanding value and experiences for our guests.

Responsibilities

• Lead with confidence, combining strong presentation skills with exceptional project management and organisational expertise, alongside effective influencing and negotiation abilities.
• Evaluate and approve F&B concepts to ensure regional relevance while maintaining full alignment with brand standards.
• Conduct regular market research to assess regional suitability, competitive landscapes, and target audiences, ensuring concepts remain commercially compelling.
• Provide hands‐on concept development support to existing hotels, helping evolve and elevate their F&B offerings.
• Prepare and present detailed F&B concept briefs for internal stakeholder review, progressing to ownership groups and their representatives.
• Develop and maintain robust project‐tracking processes, ensuring clear communication and visibility of progress for all stakeholders.
• Build and manage strong partnerships with third‐party suppliers, designers, consultants and concept partners where required.
• Generate innovative practical solutions to overcome function‐specific challenges and drive continuous improvement.
• Be flexible and mobile with the ability to travel up to 20% of your working time.

What we’re looking for

• Solid industry experience in F&B concept development.
• Good and deep understanding of commercial F&B environment within a group.
• Experience of creating and developing F&B concepts and programmes.
• Solid leadership and management experience.
• A strategic thinker who can work cohesively as part of a team.

About the Group

Millennium Hotels and Resorts owns and operates a portfolio of over 120 hotels worldwide. Properties under the group are placed into collections: Leng's Collection, M Social Collection, Millennium Collection, Copthorne Collection and The Biltmore. Each collection has its own distinct personality, character and a clearly defined hotel brand. Real opportunities to develop and grow within the industry exist.

We are an equal‐opportunity employer. In line with the requirements of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. To improve compliance with identity document validation, successful applicants will provide their right to work in UK which will be verified using Trust ID Scanners and Software.