Banquet Manager

Job Description

Graduate Hotels® is seeking a Banquet Manager to join Graduate Lincolnand its brilliant team of hospitality enthusiasts.

Graduate Hotels creates authentic, spirited spaces that connect travelers, students and locals alike. Through thoughtfully curated design, creative F&B and community-focused events, we create hotels worthy of their communities.

We are a diverse team of experience makers and storytellers. As a Graduate Hotels team member, you are the local insider shaping guest experiences. Our goal is to make every guest feel like a local even if it's their first time in town. In order to help you deliver on that goal, we encourage our team members to embody the same mindset as our guests through Graduate experiences and encouraged community exploration.

Graduate Hotels is proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified™, proving that our associates feel our commitment to cultivate a culture of inspirational and supportive leadership.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Supervises the Banquet Department during catered events and helps coordinate their work with the Event Planning team and Culinary team
• Acts as liaison between the Banquet Department, Event Planning, and Culinary to facilitate and maintain communications during events

• Works closely with the Senior Banquet Manager and Event Planning to plan and implement various catered events and services
• Assists with labor and wage costs controls
• Assists in monitoring all inventories and orders of stock supplies, and service equipment
• Oversee staff’s attention to detail and having a critical eye for all aspects of specified catered events
• Ensure Banquet staff are performing per The Henry Ford’s standards

• Assist in the planning and execution of continuous staff education
• Conducts performance reviews for part-time staff
• Assists with the development of Banquet Department policy and procedural manuals for part-time staff
• Fulfill the proper high-level standards of the food service sanitation policies and procedures that comply with the overall ascetic appearance to banquet event facilities
• Adheres to The Henry Ford and the Banquet Department rules and policies always

• Performs other activities as necessary
• Contributes to the effective team management of all problems, issues, and opportunities
• Acts as a team player, providing expertise within the team and with other team members, as appropriate

Education And Experience

• Minimum of bachelor’s Degree in hospitality
• Minimum of 3 years in food and beverage department of a hotel

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Basic math skills
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to exceed expectations of guests and team members
• Excellent time management skills

About Graduate Hotels®

Graduate Hotels is a hand-crafted collection of hotels that reside in dynamic university-anchored towns across the country. Each hotel pays homage to the heritage of its unique town through cultural nods to the local community. Launched in 2014, there are 35 hotels across the U.S. and U.K. Graduate Hotels is owned by Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners, a vertically integrated real estate developer, owner and operator. For more information on Graduate Hotels, please visit www.graduatehotels.com.

• Graduate Hotels is an Equal Opportunity Employer.