Role Purpose

As Chef and Beverage Manager, you’ll manage food and beverage operations to ensuring quality service and standards are maintained to deliver a memorable guest experience. Always following government regulations concerning health, safety or other requirements.

Key Accountabilities

People

• Manage everyday activity, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers

• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues

• Train colleagues to make sure they deliver with compliance and to the standards we expect

• Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed

Guest Experience

• Make sure all food and beverage equipment is in operational condition and regularly cleaned

• Develop and change menus every season, develop great food items and the head Chef

• Make sure all food and beverage facilities spaces are clean and properly stocked to anticipated business volume. Notify engineering immediately of any maintenance and repair needs

• Establish and achieve quality and guest satisfaction goals. Help guests with their requests and complaints - making sure you maintain a high level of guest satisfaction

Responsible Business

• Manage hotel food and beverage marketing programmes and participate in and maintain system-wide food and beverage marketing programmes and promotions

• Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation. Review and approve menu design

• Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely - always keep stock replenished to minimise waste

• Handle food and beverage inventory procedures. Determine minimum and maximum stocks for all food, beverage, material, and equipment

• Other ad-hoc duties - unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Financial

• Help prepare the hotel’s annual budget and the setting of departmental goals

• Monitor budget and control expenses with a focus on food, beverage and labour costs

• Working with the catering office, identify additional sales opportunities to enhance revenue

• Drive promotions that deliver great dining experiences for guests at a good value

• Make sure credit and financial transactions are handled in a secure manner

Accountabilities

This is the top food and beverage job in the hotel. Supervising a large number of team members in one or two food and beverage outlets, kitchens, May oversee one or more supervisors.

Key Skills & Experiences

• Some college and/or advanced training in food and beverage management

• 2 years of related experience, including supervisory experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification in Hotel Management, culinary arts, or related field preferred

• Must speak local language

• Alcohol awareness certification and/or food service permit or valid health/food handler card, as required by local law

At IHG, we’ve made a promise. As one of the world’s leading hotel groups, we’re here to deliver True Hospitality for Good. Making our guests and colleagues feel welcome, cared for, recognised and respected – wherever they are in the world. Want to be part of the journey?

Hotel Indigo is an upper-upscale boutique brand that captures the true spirit of the neighborhoods our hotels belong to. With over 125 properties worldwide, we look for individuals that can inspire our guests to make unique discoveries. Opening the door to meaningful connections to the diverse people, places, and cultures of the local area.

Making travel inspiring. It’s what we do.

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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.