Head of Food & Beverage

As a Head of Food & Beverage you will responsible for creating and delivering a strategy around delivering a fresh food gastro pub offer with an industry-leading drinks proposition that can help unlock market growth for Greene King.

As a brand ambassador and role model of Crafted Pubs, you will strive to ensure delivery of the food and drinks proposition in line with the Brand ambition as well as have operational accountability reporting to the Business Unit Director.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – Who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could receive up to £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as Head of Food and Beverage

• You will be an ambassador in streamlining operational processes and procedures to ensure a positive and memorable customer experience through exceptional execution
• Build, plan and deliver industry-revered new menu and drinks coaching programmes relevant to the scope and scale of content changes
• Take responsibility for the delivery of our food & beverage strategy embracing positive collaborative relationships across a variety of business partners to ensure all planned initiatives are aligned to the overall business strategy.
• Focus the operations/kitchen teams on consistently delivering excellent food and drink quality with an absolute focus on consistency of product serve
• Allow our team the freedom to succeed through coaching and embracing their autonomy to drive product quality and improvement of liquor and food stock. Working alongside you will build tangible action plans that influence at a divisional level to improve liquor and food KPI performance across a variety of measures

What you’ll bring… 

• Proven ability to work in a busy environment to tight timescales
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• IT literate – the ability to use Microsoft Office packages
• Passion and understanding of food
• Guest focused with a real passion for meeting the guest expectations
• Effective decision making

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