Food & Beverage Manager
Somerset | Up to £35,000 | 40 Hours per Week | Mainly Daytime Hours
Are you an experienced Food & Beverage Manager, Catering Manager or Hospitality Manager looking for your next challenge?
We’re recruiting for an exciting opportunity at one of Somerset’s busiest visitor attractions. This is a chance to lead a diverse, fast-paced food and beverage operation with genuine autonomy, a fantastic team and ambitious plans for future investment and growth.
This is far more than a single café operation. You’ll oversee four food and beverage outlets, including a busy café, grab-and-go concepts and seasonal pop-up outlets, ensuring every guest enjoys a consistently high-quality experience.
Rewards & Benefits
- Competitive salary circa £35,000
- 40-hour permanent contract
- 5 days from 7
- Predominantly daytime working
- Excellent work-life balance compared with many hospitality roles
- Real autonomy to influence and develop the operation
- Supportive leadership team
- An exciting time to join, with long-term investment and development planned
- Genuine opportunities to grow your career as the business evolves
The Role
Reporting to the senior management team, you’ll lead the entire food and beverage operation, taking responsibility for people, standards, commercial performance and continuous improvement.
During peak periods you’ll lead a team of up to 20 permanent and seasonal colleagues, creating a positive culture where people feel motivated, supported and accountable.
This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys being part of the operation while developing their team and driving performance.
- Lead the day-to-day operation across four food and beverage outlets
- Delivery of F&B for private and corporate events
- Recruit, train, coach and develop permanent and seasonal team members
- Deliver consistently high standards of food quality, presentation and customer service
- Manage labour, rotas and productivity
- Maintain excellent food safety, hygiene and compliance standards
- Control stock, ordering and wastage
- Identify opportunities to improve sales, efficiency and the overall guest experience
- Work closely with senior management on future developments and operational improvements
The Candidate
We’re looking for a confident and engaging manager who enjoys leading from the front.
You’ll ideally have experience within hospitality, visitor attractions, leisure, hotels, restaurants, branded food operations or contract catering.
You’ll have:
- Experience managing busy food and beverage operations
- A proven track record of leading, motivating and developing teams
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- A calm, positive approach under pressure
- Strong commercial awareness
- A passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences
- A hands-on management style with high standards and attention to detail
If you’ve managed multiple outlets, seasonal teams or high visitor volumes, we’d particularly like to hear from you.
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