Job Description
Food and Beverage Director
Napa Valley, CA $130,000 - $150,000 Direct, Full-Time Onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Food & Beverage Director is primarily responsible for leading and overseeing the Hotels food and beverage strategy, planning, and service. Directly supervise the Executive Chefs, Banquet team and the front-of-the-house staff. Implement and design budgets, adhere to quality and safety standards, hire, train, manage F&B team members, and apply relevant marketing principles to ensure that the expectations of the hotel members are consistently exceeded. Plans, coordinates, communicates on, and oversees special events.
Additional responsibilities include delivering excellent customer service to our guest and to co-workers by greeting everyone with warmth and exhibiting pride in the organization.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Greets guests and oversees actual service daily.
- Addresses member and guest feedback, complaints, and advises the AGM about appropriate corrective actions.
- Ensures that recruiting, orientation, and training for new & existing staff, along with professional development activities for the team, are effectively planned and implemented.
- Completes, audits, and approves bi-weekly payroll for the F&B staff
- Working with HR and the AGM, develops and implements culture training to align with the club’s mission and vision.
- Creates SMART goals for the staff and measurable KPIs for the F&B department in partnership with the AGM and GM/COO.
- Assists in planning, approving, and improving the organizational chart, staffing, scheduling procedures, and job descriptions/specifications for all department staff.
- Manages the short and long-range staffing needs of the department.
- Establishes quantity and quality output standards for personnel in all positions within the department.
- Monitors and enforces employee dress codes according to policies and procedures.
- Ensures that all legal requirements are consistently adhered to, including wage and federal/state laws, and all laws pertaining to alcoholic beverages
- Develops and implements policies and procedures for food and beverage departments
- Develops an operating budget, monitors it, and takes corrective action as needed to ensure those budget goals are achieved or exceeded.
- Monitors and develops purchasing and receiving procedures for products and supplies to ensure proper quantities, quality, and pricing for all purchases.
- Prepares and presents capital budget project ideas that can enhance member F&B satisfaction to the AGM & GM/COO.
- Ensures that all standard revenue and cost control operating procedures are in place and consistently utilized.
- Approves the menus proposed by the Executive Chef for club and special events.
- Collaborate daily with the Executive Chef and other relevant hotel administrators to ensure the highest member satisfaction at a reasonable cost.
- Develops innovative methods to promote club events in the dining room, patio, and pool service.
- Promotes, plans, and executes private member events.
- Works closely with the F&B committee.
- Designs and executes procedures for special club events.
- Maintains the appearance, upkeep, and cleanliness of all food and beverage equipment and facilities.
- Inspects to ensure all safety, sanitation, energy management, preventive maintenance, and other standards are consistently followed.
- Implement and ensure the execution of sanitation and cleaning schedules.
- Approves all product invoices prior to submitting them to the accounting department.
- Handles physical inventory checks and supplies current data to the accounting team.
- Responsible for accurate accounting and reconciliation of the Point-of-Sale systems and member revenues.
- Perform special projects assigned, including Manager on Duty consistently.
WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE
- Bachelor's degree in Hospitality or equivalent.
- Management experience with a proven track record as a manager in the hospitality industry with extensive experience in Food and Beverage.
- Must demonstrate a high level of understanding in culinary arts, restaurant management, and member relations.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities and projects simultaneously. Must be punctual, reliable, and conscientious.
- Basic computer skills, MS Office suite including Word, Excel, and Outlook,
- Have good written and verbal skills for effective communication, ability to read, write business correspondence
- Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close and distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Renowned Recruitment Group and our clients do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.