Food & Beverage Manager

Job Details

Location: Bude Holiday Resort, Cornwall.

Job Type: Permanent Contract - 40 Hours per week

Salary: £28,500 per annum

Job Summary

What we need, in a nutshell

This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced Food & Beverage Manager to work at our beautiful Coastal Bar and Eatery at Bude Holiday Resort.

We want someone who has the passion and drive to further develop our venue on site and kitchen.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to use your knowledge, experience and ideas to manage all aspects of the revenue generation and cost control on one of our Flagship parks.

About Us

We are a dynamic and growing company, shaking up the Great British holiday. With 27 amazing UK resorts, we pull out all the stops and add the bells and whistles to give our guests the holiday of a lifetime.

Bude Holiday resort is the perfect coastal escape, a family friendly holiday awaits on the stunning Cornish coast. With a fully refurbished Coastal bar and eatery, a heated outdoor swimming pool, splash zone and adventure playground for the kids and great walks along the coastline, there is heaps to keep everyone entertained.

Skills, Experience and Qualities You'll Need

We are looking for a high calibre Food & Beverage Manager that can create an environment where a team thrive and our guests can sit back and take away memories that will last a lifetime; whilst still having an analytical mind that can process KPI's and drive the right behaviour through standards and leading the way.

Key Responsibilities

• Have a minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role
• Manage, lead, train and motivate a team to deliver delight
• Oversee the smooth running of the bar and restaurant, the preparation for service, as well as overseeing service and supervising the after-service duties
• Maximise sales whilst driving profitable growth with care and flair
• Carry out regular stock takes and order, as necessary
• Handle deliveries and ensure health and safety regulations are always enforced
• Oversee and contribute to any project work as part of the upcoming development
• The preparation and management of budgets for resources on the park, to deliver annual profit targets in food and beverage and arcade
• Identifying and maximising business opportunities
• Monitoring and maintaining cost controls to create efficiencies across the business
• Managing the development, coaching and performance of the Food & Beverage and Retail teams, promoting the Holiday Heroes culture that makes our holiday park a great place to work
• Helping to deliver the highest level of guest experience to all our guests
• Developing close working relationships with the other managers on the park as well as other areas of the business, gaining an understanding of what drives their side of the business and how you can help them with commercial information
• Being a professional interface with the owners and stakeholders of the business and with external suppliers and other important contacts

In addition to the core responsibilities for the role, there will also be some evening Duty Management duties for the Resort.

It's about your values too. We have a can do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes' mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers - have a read about it on our website and decide if it describes you.

One more thing holidays happen at holiday times, so you will need to work your magic on bank holidays too.

What We Can Offer You

• Bonus Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays
• On Park Discounts
• Awards and recognition

How to Apply

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Our Promise to You

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super powers, and we welcome them all!

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We'll never accept any form of discrimination and we'll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. After all, wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!