M & E Beverage Manager

The Londoner, a chic boutique hotel in Leicester Square, is seeking a Meetings and Events Beverage Manager to enhance its luxury offerings. The role involves ensuring timely beverage orders, maintaining stock, managing bar equipment, and ensuring hygiene standards. Ideal candidates will have extensive knowledge of bar operations in a 5-star setting, excellent organisational and leadership skills, and the ability to establish rapport. The hotel offers competitive salaries, generous holiday, complimentary meals, and opportunities for professional development. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK, in accordance with immigration regulations.

Become a Londoner

Welcome to The Londoner, a hotel that is chic boutique in spirit and feeling yet staggering in scale and ambition. A perfectly engineered collection of spaces, tastes, textures and offerings over 15 floors. Situated in the heart of Leicester Square, where the four corners of the city meet.We are seeking hospitality professionals whose unique talents and ambitions will drive them to not only rise to our guests exacting standards, but also propel their own career potential in a company that recognizes and rewards. Stand out from the crowd by joining Londons first Super Boutique hotel.

At The Londoner we are committed to being the best place to work, so much so that we have officially been recognised as a Great Place to Work. Our commitment to the wellbeing and development of our people is at the forefront of our culture.

We are currently recruiting for a Meetings and Events Beverage Manager to support the Meetings and Events Operations Team at The Londoner Hotel. Our Meetings and Events Operation is delivering high end events and meetings in a luxury hotel environment.

Overview:

• The key role of Meetings and Events Beverage Manager is to ensure that the correct orders are made in good time for each event and that pre orders of wine, spirits and cocktails for each event are prepared
• You will ensure that stock is maintained and accounted for and actively checked on a regular basis.
• You will manage all glassware and barware for the Meeting and Events department.
• You will ensure that all beverages are presented to guests in accordance with service excellence standards.
• You will ensure that all bar equipment is maintained correctly and that all areas including the cellar and storerooms are maintained to the highest standards ensuring that hygiene standards are always met.
• You will recruit, coach, mentor and support the Meetings and Events bar team ensuring a high level of teamwork and collaboration to provide excellent guest service.

About You:

• In depth knowledge of Meetings and Events Bar Operations within a multi-million-pound hotel revenue operation within a 5 Star environment.
• Excellent attention to detail, logistics, management and leadership skills is essential for this role.
• Has proven organizational skills and works well on their own. Able to set and meet deadlines with quality results.
• Confident and has the ability to establish rapport effectively.
• A good command of English both verbal and written.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive salary

• 28 days Holiday per annum including Bank Holidays increasing with long service

• Complimentary hot meals, salad bar and unlimited beveragesprovideddaily

• Recommend a Friend Scheme of up to £500 per friend recommended.

• Annual complimentary night stays within our hotels

• Preferential accommodation rates for all Edwardian Hotels for Hosts, theirfamilyand their friends

• Access to a discount platform forall ofthe most popular stores and outlets

• Auto enrolment into our company pension scheme

• Regular social events across all hotels

• Annual company recognition events held in January each year

• Wellbeing champions acrossall ofour hotels

• Access to our company doctor for medical appointments and occupational health support

• Access for all hosts to our online learning platform Edwardian Academy

• Opportunities for promotion and a wide range of training programs to support your development

Eligibility:

In line with the requirements of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Documented evidence of eligibility will berequiredfrom candidates as part of the recruitment process.

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