Beverage Manager
Reporting to: Director of Food and Beverage
Regular check-ins with Hotel General Manager & Corporate F & B Team
Job Purpose
The F & B Manager (Bar) is responsible for delivering exceptional guest service, maximizing profits within the hotel's venues, and managing all F&B operations under the F&B Director. Including comprehensive on-shift management: scheduling employee shifts, training staff, assisting guests, and maintaining consistently high levels of standards of beverage in all venues. Working closely with the executive chef, F&B Director, and head office to develop ideas, and beverage menus and drive consistently excellent standards across operations, events & activations. Comprehensive back-of-house duties such as payroll, inventory, orders & management reporting. Is an effective leader and must be a true ambassador to the Standard brand.
PERSONAL COMPETENCIES & REQUIREMENTS
- Leader: You inspire colleagues by giving clear instruction & leading by example prioritizing key roles
- Ready for a Challenge: You jump into new projects with ideas, initiative, and drive
- Team Player: You're able to listen, communicate, and work positively with lots of different people
- Awareness: knowledge of the hospitality industry & its key trends and happenings!
- Flexible: Working hours of a hospitality professional
- Solutions: You can bring solutions to the table when you spot a problem
- Expert: You speak the language of hospitality & can build a team of passionate professionals around you
Duties & Responsibilities
- Directly responsible for guest needs and service in all venues and related areas of the hotel
- Initiates on-site training of said staff, using supplied brand materials, including all required documentation and tests
- Assures all new front-of-house employees have received training materials and are properly tested before receiving scheduled non-training shifts
- Works closely as a team and communicates effectively with all other F&B managers
- Oversees seasonal beverage program changes, by outlet
- Responsible for all beverage ordering & monthly beverage inventory
- Attends monthly 1 on 1 meetings with the Corporate Director of F & B
- Responsible for ensuring pars & rec sheets are being properly filled out and recorded
- Ensures SOPs are in place for loss prevention.
- Responsible for keeping beverage costs in line with support from managers and Director, F&B
- Responsible for appearance and upkeep in all F&B outlets and shared spaces
- Responsible for the requisition and stocking to par of all products sold/used in the area of responsibility, while managing deadstock
- Ensures there is sufficient coverage of each scheduled shift that is being led
- Ensures that staff schedules are inputted correctly into the payroll system by appropriate deadlines
- Ensures all floor staff side work is satisfactorily completed pre- and post-shift
- Ensures floor staff are performing to standard during the shift, if not above and beyond
- Continues to train staff on product knowledge, protocol, and any policy/procedure changes
- Oversees floor staff, ensuring that they adhere to conduct requirements as per Employee Handbook/SOPs
- Delegates duties to floor staff to facilitate day to day operation of the restaurant/bar and be able to fulfill other duties assigned by management
- Ensures line employees are in properly maintained and appropriate uniforms dictated by the position
- Responsible for completing all paperwork requirements at the end of the shift, including cash drops, check drops, and night auditor drops
- Completes daily logs
- Responsible for correctly programming/updating Squirrel
- Responsible for correcting and printing menu updates as necessary
- Communicate with the Property Chef on menu descriptions, proper plating, and verbiage in order to train the team
- Updates timesheets, team breaks, and switches in payroll systems as necessary and in a timely fashion
- Responsible that payroll information is accurately received by Finance, including daily tip distribution logs
- Executes progressive discipline in a timely fashion
- Conduct monthly/bi-monthly inventory in all venues including storage and mini-bar
- Responsible for labor (labor costs and scheduling)
- Responsible for beverage menu development
- Responsible for training across all areas: Sequence of Service, Hygiene practices, DOH compliance, and other best practices
- Perform other duties as requested by the GM, Hotel, and/or F&B Director
Requirements
- Passionate about guest experience
- 3-5 years bartending experience
- 1+ years managing within boutique hotels/ concept restaurants/ multi-venue operations
- Organizational Skills: Work efficiently, utilize multi-tasking, prioritize tasks
- Hygiene and Sanitation: Adherence to uniform, grooming, and personal hygiene standards and expectations per Standard of Operating Procedures
- Full awareness of DOH compliance (NYC DOHMH); shall also act as walk-through liaison whilst DOH is on property
- Punctuality: Adherence to posted schedule and arrival time and attendance at mandatory meetings
- Responsibility: Personal comportment in line with Standard, New York policies, standards, and expectations
- Knowledge of Squirrel (POS System), Avero (Reporting Tool), Resy (Reservations System), Unifocus (Payroll)
- Must be available to work closing and late-night shifts with special attention to bar service & nightlife
- Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Can handle the pressure of a high-volume, high-energy venue
- Strong communication (both written and oral) and management skills
- Able to traverse spaces throughout the building as necessary
- Able to work standing for a minimum of 10 hours a day
- Periodical bending, kneeling, and stretching
- Able to pull, push, carry, and lift at least 50 pounds
- Must be able to seize, grasp, turn, and hold objects with hands
Desirable
- Beverage and wine education (Bar Smarts, American Sommelier Association)
- Multi-lingual
- ServSafe / Food Handler Certificate
- Tips Training
- Knowledgeable of basic DJ equipment & A/V operation
- Basic knowledge of Birchstreet (Ordering System) and Opera (Hotel Ops Platform)
Salary
70-75K