Job Title General Manager

Job Type Hotels

Employer Type Luxury Small Hotel of the World

Location Nottingham

Job Description
General Manager 5 Star Stunning luxury Retreat Nottingham


This stunning 50 bedroom property boasts 2 beautiful restaurants a unique eating space in the orangery and an awesome event space. No expense spared this truly is a fabulous eating destination and all round experience. You would be responsible for a combined food & beverage turnover of just shy of £2 million with a further £1 million on events and a further 1 Million in Accommodation and a core team of 50. You will need to have a thorough understanding of food and beverage and have experience in a small luxury hotel property or a 5 star racecourse working for one of the top caterers. In addition it boasts some of the latest cutting edge accommodation pods – think The Hobbit! This is a fabulous role and would suit a top class innovative driven Food and Beverage professional with experience also of managing luxury accommodation, who has a first class pedigree in managing and working within some of the most high profile and demanding restaurants within the 5 star arena.
Equally this would suit a General Manager of all that encompasses hospitality at one of the local racecourses. As General Manager you would be fully involved in driving the strategy and the culture of the company and will need to thrive off achieving results through fantastic management of your team!
It is a given that you are driven, entrepreneurial, edgy with a mind brimming full of food ideas to dazzle your clients – someone who really does know the difference between what good food and service and great food and service looks like – we are not looking for the norm but someone really special who perhaps who knows the local area and is passionate about sustainable food and local drink produce. Fabulous Food is what we do and you would need not only to have the experience of running restaurants but also high-profile hospitality and events, have a natural interest in latest food trends and yet we don’t want to reinvent the wheel we want our guest to enjoy the best fish pie they have ever tasted or the most delicious club sandwich with a reasonably priced yet delicious wine. We are a fab fab team really upbeat and we all look out for one another, it is a positive culture and very supportive and encouraging. We are looking for leader with bags of innovation, not afraid to try new things at the same time as being commercial and happy to have full P&L accountability for £4 million. The role reports into the Director of Operations.
If this attracts your interest see below a little more about the nuts of bolts of what the role requires….

Ideally you need to be…Intelligent - know your stuff
Naturally resilient character
Highly organised
Customer / service focused
Attention to detail
Proven experience at management level
Industry experienced and aware with a real passion for food and wine.
Passion for learning and developing job related knowledge
Outstanding natural hosting and service skills
Business acumen to help drive revenue growth
Organisational & communication skills
Attention to detail & accuracy is a must
Approachable, confident and positive manner. A finder of solutions, not problems
Well placed initiative
Team player with excellent listening skills
A great motivator
Adaptability
Role model with leadership skills to support a large team to deliver outstanding guest service
Positive mind set, outgoing & enthusiastic
Practical, flexible and goes above and beyond to ensure outstanding service
Friendly, approachable, diplomatic, warm and friendly
Professional approach to work
Prepared to take ownership and demonstrate accountability.
Great sense of humour
Robust & unflappable character
Delivering outstanding service and products
Managing and developing the entire team
Business improvement to help drive revenue growth
Personal development and progression within the team
Weekly responsibilities :
Leading a team to deliver an excellent customer experience through clearly defined
service expectations
Coaching managers and team members to achieve improved performance through
consistent delivery of service and quality of product Deliver the role of host whilst being an exemplary role model for the company
Increasing revenue generation by maximizing all sales and profit opportunities Monitoring and maintaining safety compliance standards to adhere to current legislation
Managing financial accountabilities – analysing data to provide solutions that deliver optimum results

Please do get in touch is you think this role would suit you!

Salary £60,000 plus bonus

Reference JM LUXN

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