As an Area Manager, you'll be responsible for leading and developing a collection of pubs, supporting your General Managers to build successful businesses and brilliant teams.
We're looking for someone who can balance the numbers with the people, understands the challenges of running pubs and knows how to bring out the best in those around them.
You'll be:
Leading and inspiring your General Managers, giving them the coaching, confidence and support to run successful pubs.
Driving commercial performance, identifying opportunities to grow sales, improve profitability and make the most of each pub's potential.
Building strong teams, spotting talent, supporting progression and creating a culture where people want to stay and develop.
Getting out into your pubs, understanding the businesses, building relationships and being visible to your teams.
Bringing fresh ideas, challenging the way things are done and finding new opportunities to improve performance.
Taking ownership, ensuring your pubs deliver excellent standards, operate safely and consistently provide great guest experiences.
Working collaboratively, building strong relationships with support teams to make sure your pubs have what they need to succeed.
Company Description
Great pubs. Great people. Your opportunity to make a real impact.
At Greene King, we know that great pubs are built around great people. And across our Community Pubs business, no two pubs are quite the same.
From busy neighbourhood favourites to traditional locals at the heart of their communities, each pub has its own personality, its own customers and its own opportunities.
We're looking for an experienced Area Manager who understands what makes a great pub, loves developing people and has the commercial drive to get the best out of a diverse collection of businesses.
This is an opportunity to take real ownership of your area, work alongside passionate pub teams and make a genuine difference to the performance and future success of our pubs.
Additional Information
We believe in recognising and rewarding the people who make our pubs successful.
Alongside a competitive salary and pension contribution, you'll benefit from:
Career development – opportunities to progress across our well-known brands, with access to industry-leading training and apprenticeship programmes.
33% staff discount across Greene King brands, plus 15% for your loved ones.
Hotel discounts – 50% off Greene King Inns and hotels for you, and 25% for your loved ones.
Employee Assistance Programme – free wellbeing, mental health, financial and legal support.
Enhanced family-friendly policies to support you through life's important moments.
Wagestream – access to earned wages before payday.
Retail discounts – savings with Superdrug, Three and a range of other retailers.
Referral rewards – earn up to £1,500 for successfully referring someone to join the business.
Qualifications
What are we looking for?
We're looking for an experienced hospitality leader who is as comfortable talking about people and culture as they are about sales and profitability.
You'll bring:
Proven leadership experience across multiple hospitality businesses, or significant operational leadership experience with the ability to step into a multi-site role.
Strong commercial awareness and the ability to turn insight into action.
A genuine passion for developing people and building high-performing teams.
The confidence to challenge, influence and make decisions.
An adaptable approach, with the resilience to navigate challenges and changing priorities.
A collaborative leadership style that builds trust and strong working relationships.
Most importantly, we're looking for someone who understands that great results come from great teams.
Why Greene King Community Pubs?
Because this is about more than managing a collection of pubs.
It's about supporting the people who run them, understanding what makes each business different and helping them become the best they can be.
You'll have the opportunity to influence a diverse portfolio of pubs, develop future leaders and play a key role in shaping the success of our Community Pubs business.
And with the backing of Greene King, you'll have access to the expertise, resources and development opportunities of one of the UK's leading pub companies.
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