Grange Restaurant & Pizzeria Manager

Job Title:

Grange Restaurant & Pizzeria Manager

Location:

Buckfast Abbey

Contract Type:

Permanent

Pay:

Competitive

Hours of Work:

40 hours per week – normally over 5 working days, to include some evenings and weekends

To Apply.:

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Warm and welcoming hospitality is at the heart of what we offer to our visitors. We are dedicated to delivering excellence with highest quality service and value. Our enthusiastic hospitality teams provide a unique and memorable experience, and we are passionate about exceeding our visitors’ expectations.

Role Purpose

As the Manager of the Grange Restaurant and San Benedetto’s Pizzeria, you will take full responsibility for the day-to-day operations, leadership and profitability of these separate premises. Your key working relationship for food standards and offering is our Executive Head Chef. You will work collaboratively with other managers across Visitor Experience, sharing resources (including staff), know-how and best practice and point of contact cover in absences, especially during site events. All staff working with you may be required to work in other areas of the wider department, including our Conference Centre and hotel. You will also work collaboratively with the Catering Administrator and support service leads (Finance, Health & Safety, HR, Media, IT and Safeguarding) to ensure an informed, compliant and consistent approach in keeping with our ethos.

Main Responsibilities

The Grange Restaurant & Pizzeria Manager will be responsible for:

Ensuring these premises are profitable and identifying opportunities for financial growth
Maintaining detailed and accurate sales and profit data and managing the departmental budget
Ensuring that staff are appropriately trained, motivated, challenged and supported in their work
Identifying and developing internal capability and hosting work experience, work placements and apprenticeships
Managing absence, performance and misconduct issues
Health and Safety – including risk assessment, fire, evacuation, security and maintenance reporting procedures
Ensuring compliance with food safety systems (HACCP) and associated record keeping
Developing and implementing standards for excellent customer service and celebrating and responding to feedback
Ensuring high standards of cleanliness and tidiness
Managing stock (including monthly stock takes) and waste levels/procurement of stock (in conjunction with Catering Administrator)
Managing activities in line with Abbey’s emerging sustainability focus
Cashing up of tills
Devising and implementing promotional campaigns in collaboration with Media & Marketing department

Managerial Responsibilities

As a Departmental Manager you will:

Recruit, train, motivate, evaluate and lead the department staff
Maintain and promote a safe and healthy working environment
Be focused on sustainability – reduce, reuse, recycle, and green and ethical sourcing
Lead food hygiene compliance, sales of goods and relevant alcoholic licensing requirements
Attend Heads of Department, budget and planning meetings and all training
Take responsibility for the implementation of Buckfast Abbey policies and procedures

Person Specification – Skills, Personal Qualities & Requirements

Essential:

Experience in a similar, hospitality senior managerial role, preferably of multiple venues
Experience of recent, successful financial operations management within hospitality
Experience of an autonomous role that requires high levels of collaboration and managing of stakeholder demands
Skill and experience in motivating, coaching and managing team members
Strong IT literacy, personal organisational and time management skills
High level communication and interpersonal skills – verbal and written

If you think you’re the person we need, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking to fill this role as soon as possible so please don’t delay in applying to avoid disappointment!

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

For more information, or to request an informal discussion about the role, please contact us.

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Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

Buckfast Abbey is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We strive to recruit colleagues who share this commitment to safeguarding and therefore apply robust procedures to support this. All new employees are required to obtain a DBS check, at no cost to themselves.

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Criminal Record

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Please note any criminal convictions except those 'spent', or otherwise ‘protected’, under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If none, please state.

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All the information collected in this form is necessary and relevant to the performance of the job applied for. We will use the information provided by you on this form for recruitment purposes only.

The Company will treat all personal information confidentially and in line with current data protection legislation. We rely on the lawful basis of the Data Protection Act 2018 (General Data Protection Regulation) to process the information provided by you in this form.

Should you be successful in your application, the information provided, and further information which will be gathered at the relevant time, will be subsequently used for the administration of your employment and in relation to any legal challenge which may be made regarding our recruitment practices.

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