IHG Hiring for Food & Beverage Manager – voco Dubai Job at Dubai Full Time

At voco™, we’ve created a new hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

At the heart of every great stay is a great host. We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need and want. So, before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us, we give tempting recommendations of our favourite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guidebook.

Your day to day

If you’d like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities and grow your career journey with the IHG Family, we’d like to welcome you as a part of our Food & Beverage team working across our grand palette of innovation. Each experience is enriched by a lifestyle setting, you will drive our hosts to deliver exceptional service, creating rich and personal experiences that will create the “voco Life” for our guests. Reporting to the Area General Manager, you will play a key role in developing the Food & Beverage team to create a positive and productive work environment; building, motivating and upskilling them to ensure they are highly engaged, deliver results and know to truly deliver lifestyle in the food and beverage space. This role will be responsible for the Food & Beverage and Culinary operations to execute the Restaurant & Bars and Special Events strategy within the hotel, and managing the day to day of the Restaurants, Bars and Banqueting across the operation. From implementing promotional calendars and driving revenue creation opportunities to workforce planning, running shifts and seeking innovative ways of working – this role will be pivotal in ensuring the restaurant operations and bespoke events hosted are effective and efficient and guest service is unrivalled.

What we need from you

The ideal candidate will have experience in hospitality, leadership working in a hotel with multiple Restaurant, Bar & Events offerings. You will have demonstrated capability in influencing and impacting business strategy and also have sound financial, analytical and business acumen partnered with proven ability to deliver on set targets. You will be a change agent with the ability to work alongside a team and collaborate with key stakeholders with a sense of urgency. Strategic thinking, the ability to explore new ways of working and an open mind around how we can drive the hotel forward and deliver unrivalled guest journeys will be highly advantageous. Demonstrated ability to work with guests and champion a brand is also a must. Have a strong drive for results, dynamic, possess good communication skills both verbal and written. Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities are required. Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity.

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve -visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

Reliably Different – Welcome to voco™ Hotels, IHG’s new upscale brand. We call our Hotels voco™ – It means ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’ originating from Latin and representing our thoughtful, unstuffy and charming nature. Guests tell us that voco™ is fun without being vanilla, trendy without being alienating and premium, without being stuffy. This unique and playful attitude, combined with a consistent level of quality, sits at the heart of our brand here at voco™ Dubai Whatever we’re up to, at every instance, there are brand values and service behaviours that guide us… Brand values: Always dependable, Respect individuality & Be distinctive. Service values: Count on us to; Be natural & Make every stay special. Drawing on IHG’s years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco™ Hotels gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels is connected by their individual characters, that make memorable travel dependable with unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience. The world’s first voco™ hotel opened in November 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia and the first voco™ Hotel across IMEA is voco™ Dubai. voco™ Dubai is a location like no other with a premium ambience in the heart of Dubai and laid back yet attentive service from the friendly hosts. It’s location on the vibrant Shiekh Zayed Road is also connecting it to many day time and no delights of the city, moments from shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.

Job Reference: EMEAA36454