Beverage manager

The Role

Beverage Manager

The Beverage Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless and efficient operations within the restaurant and bar outlets.

This individual is responsible for delivering excellence in guest service by developing teams, relationships with guests, providing personalized service, anticipating and delivering guests’ needs.

The role requires strong experience and interests in cocktail and wine menus development and management, and equally a demonstrated work history in operational floor managment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Chef-Partner to ensure adherence to restuarant concept in ideation and execution of beverage program.
• Balance time between maintenance of beverage inventory and R&D of offerings in collaboration with Chef-Partner, training of staff to implement beverage menus, and ordinary functions as a floor manager during restaurant meal periods.
• Be a hotel ambassador, exceeding core objectives and values.
• Act with ownership mentality and full accountability for people, product, and profit.
• Provide excellent, courteous, and professional service to guests, maintaining hotel culture.
• Ensure overall cleanliness and safety, performing opening and closing procedures.
• Lead the team to surpass restaurant and bar targets, focusing on guest and team relations, efficiency, and revenue.
• Contribute strategically to hotel and food / beverage outlet development.
• Set service standards, address issues, and coach team for highest quality in all restaurant areas.
• Oversee food quality, safety, and cleanliness, conducting checks and making necessary adjustments.
• Solicit customer feedback, evaluate cost-effectiveness, and implement profit-enhancing measures.
• Manage staffing, conduct performance assessments, develop guest relationships, and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.

Ideal Candidate

• 2 years in a Beverage Manager or 3 years in a Lead Bartender role.
• 3 years of hospitality leadership in a restaurant and bar. Experience in hotel restaurant operations is preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles and practices.
• Experience in administrative tasks.
• General knowledge of computer systems, PMS, POS, and Google Drive
• Experience in leadership & customer service.
• Candidate has good problem solving skills.
• Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Candidate is detail oriented and highly organized.
• Candidate has excellent interpersonal, communication and people skills.
• Works with professionalism and is self-driven.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding and appreciation of food and beverage culture including the trends, the disruptors, the behaviors and the complexities / opportunities.
• Has a passion for hospitality, service, food and beverage.

Requirements

• 2 years in a Beverage Manager or 3 years in a Lead Bartender role.
• 3 years of hospitality leadership in a restaurant and bar. Experience in hotel restaurant operations is preferred but not required.
• Maintain high personal appearance and hygiene standards.
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and late hours.
• Punctual and reliable attendance.
• Endurance for extended periods of standing / walking.
• Uphold a guest-responsive culture with exceptional service.
• Attentive, accountable, and highly organized with multitasking abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Guest service-oriented with proactive phone skills.
• Maintain a positive, professional, and engaging demeanor, contributing to a team environment and assisting other departments as needed.

Compensations & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• An environment that encourages initiative, leadership, and continuous improvement.
• Working with highly talented people who are extremely passionate about their craft.
• Leadership & professional development growth opportunities.

Other Duties

This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that a team member in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.

This job description reflects the job content at the time of writing and will be subject to periodic change based upon changing operational and environmental requirements.

Such changes will be discussed with the team member and the job description amended accordingly. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team member occupying this position.

Team members will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship.

About Life Hospitality

Anna & Bell is managed by Life Hospitality, the hotel management arm of Life House, an operations, branding, and software company with a mission to make travel more accessible by making hotels easier to operate and more profitable with tech-enabled, best-in-class operations.

We approach operations with a tech-driven mindset. From hotel operations to F&B, we give you tools and resources to run your hotel most efficiently so you can focus on what matters most : the guest experience.

We manage a portfolio of over 50 hotels across the US and Mexico and growing to 150 in 2024. You can find all Life Hospitality openings at https : / / www.

lifehospitality.careers.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Last updated : 2024-04-24