Director - Food and Beverage

Job description

🌟 Director - Food and Beverage - Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab 🌟

📍 United Arab Emirates

✨ Jumeirah Group, a member of Dubai Holding, has been making a distinguished impact on the global hospitality market for more than two decades with its Stay Different™ brand promise. Its award-winning destinations, such as the iconic Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, position service beyond expectations, elevated signature dining destinations, and surprising architecture and design at the heart of every guest experience. 

📋 About the Job:

An opportunity has arisen for a Director to join our Food & Beverage team at Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab. The main duties and responsibilities of this role include:

🔹 Assist in the coordination of organizational and administrative functions in all areas of the Food and Beverage Department.
🔹 Direct the implementation of the Food & Beverage operational strategy, in line with the corporate direction and guidelines to reinforce the Group’s vision and the provision of a world-class guest experience.
🔹 Ensure Food and Beverage operations are run effectively and efficiently, crafting exceptional experiences for our guests, and ensuring they receive the highest level of food quality and service.
🔹 Plan, direct, and monitor services and F&B standards in all outlets and kitchens, ensuring that managers take corrective actions as necessary in adherence to Jumeirah policies and standards.
🔹 Monitor market trends for luxury chains of hotels, restaurants, and bars and identify innovative service methods, presentations, and state-of-the-art equipment, bringing forth a plan to introduce them in Jumeirah to ensure continuous evolution of guest satisfaction, thus sustaining the competitive advantage of the hotel.
🔹 Participate in the group’s Food & Beverages annual business plan, Sales and Marketing Plans, and provide inputs and feedback to set new goals and expectations, thus driving value.
🔹 Support, in conjunction with the SBU General Manager, the definition of the SBU overall strategy in terms of pricing, placement, and branding of the F&B outlets within the SBU to ensure they live up to the brand expectation.
🔹 Participate in public relations activities, sales calls, or other promotional activities designed to enhance the image and profitability of the F&B department and the SBU.
🔹 Manage employee value proposition through goals aligned to organization mission, vision, and values.
🔹 Manage colleagues' performance through rigorous learning and development, mentoring, coaching, and feedback. Guide the colleagues through effective programs maximizing their performance and aiding in career progression and succession linked to the employee value proposition.
🔹 Responsible for periodic review of departmental policies, manuals, checklists, SOP, and guidelines (as applicable) and update them as needed with appropriate implementation in operations, thus ensuring that F&B operations continue to deliver world-class services, excellence, and innovation.
🔹 Responsible for change initiatives, programs, and projects considering international best practices with a strategic focus on the improvement of business processes, cost reduction, and increase of productivity, and efficiency.

🧑‍💼 About You:

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following experience and qualifications:

🔹 3 years in senior F&B management roles in a luxury hotel.
🔹 Skill base to drive a highly dynamic operation with a diversity of 12-17 units at any one time.
🔹 Attention to detail.
🔹 Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
🔹 Fluency in English; additional language skills are a plus.

💼 About the Benefits:

We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams (AED), the local currency of the UAE. In addition, we offer generous F&B benefits, reduced hotel rates across our properties globally, excellent leave and health care package including dental coverage, flights home, life insurance, incentive programs, and other employee benefits making the role attractive to high performers and any applicant looking for a career with one of the most luxurious brands in the hospitality industry.