Food & Beverage Operations Manager

Hotel Brand:
Location: United Kingdom, England, West Yorkshire

Hotel: Met Hotel Leeds

About Us

The Met Hotel Leeds, are looking for a Food & Beverage Operations Manager to join our growing team.

Opening in the late 1800's The Met Hotel Leeds has welcomed guests to Leeds for over a century. Designed by local architects Chorley & Connon, this hotel is renowned for its Victorian terracotta facade and stone cupola taken from the city's demolished 4th White Cloth Hall. Today, The Met Hotel Leeds is still a much-loved landmark in Leeds' cityscape, blending its original design with contemporary interiors to create a 4-star city centre retreat. At The met Hotel, we not only mix history with style, our guests are offered the best service by our incredible team.  

Our Food & Beverage Operations Managers, Supports the Director of Operations with the effective and efficient running of the hotel food and beverage teams, with direct responsibility for up to four divisions within the department ensuring financial targets are achieved whilst maintaining the highest of standards to ensure guest expectation is consistently exceeded. .

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

Working as a Food & Beverage Operations Manager you will ensure all team members are trained and manage the shift you are working, and the outlets assigned you will work a variety of shifts, including Days, Evening & Night Shifts, over Weekdays & Weekends including Bank Holidays.

So what’s in for you

As we are part of the IHG Hotels and Resorts family, a FTSE 100 Company, market leader in delivering True Hospitality for Good around the world, we can offer you a market leading package:

• up to £14.10 per hour (Dependent on Experience)
• 31 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days?(Pro Rated) 
• Discounted international/worldwide room rates for yourself, family and friends
• Access to our voluntary benefits portal which includes discounts on some travel, leisure time activities, health, retail and motoring
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance
• Vast range of learning and development programmes
• Opportunities for promotion and transfer across the group both national and international
• Meals whilst on duty
• Uniform Provided
• Opportunities to get involved in our charitable and community activities
• Most importantly, we’ll help you grow, and develop you as an individual.

What we need from you

Our people help to make the biggest difference – we strive for perfection in everything we do for our guests, always focussing on what is important to them and always looking to improve. We take pride in the fact that we are experts in what we do and love to demonstrate this expertise to our guests with a sense of flair.

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

• Food & Beverage duty management and team leadership experience for 2+ years in a property of similar size & standard.
• Can 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 and host and supervise a service across all meal periods
• Expected to have completed Food Safety Level 2 and completion of other appropriate and relevant courses
• Knowledge of appropriate F&B systems to support operational processes table reservation and management system, Micros Simphony (or relevant POS) and Quinyx
• Demonstrates a thirst for knowledge with an understanding on critical issues and potential technology and trends in hotel food and beverage
• Can talk through activities that would be required on a food and beverage marketing calendar and recognizes how to impact different booking channels

Do you have what it takes to be our Food & Beverage Operations Manager? We’d love to hear from you.

Please click ‘apply’ now!?

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.