Bar Manager/AGM - London

Bar Manager/AGM - 40K to 50K

Surrey - Farnham/Guilford

We are looking for an accomplished Restaurant Assistant General Manager with specific high-level Bar Management experience. An AGM with Bar Management experience within your career development; and your previous accomplishments are in known brands with consistent time in role demonstrating a thoughtful career from role to role.

This opportunity supports the General Manager as AGM however your key area of leadership will be supporting the bar team in delivering an exceptional guest experience. This independant new opening will be located in the town centre; an upmarket, multi-facetted, two-floor cocktail bar and restaurant  that will extend into a late night cocktail bar venue. Ground floor gastro-pub/restaurant leading up to the first floor cocktail bar and terrace.

This role will propel you forward and there is much opportunity for growth with plans to develop the brand in other new-openings.

What to expect:

• Effective salary of £40,000 - £50,000 per year depending on your previous experience
• Weekly changing rota, requiring flexibility Monday - Sunday.
• The late night cocktail bar would require your flexibility to work late evening shifts at times.
• Late evenings will focus on the first floor cocktail bar and terrance. 
• We're an all day dining restaurant, providing daytime and evening shifts.

The role will require you to demonstrate:

• Your ability to lead a team +30 FOH colleagues and deliver an exceptional level of customer service.
• Specific responsibility for the bar team, bar service and standards and will require a strong career experience in cocktail bars/mixology.
• Lead from the front, be values-led and demonstrate how you would manage the health of a team and business.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience in floor management, shift planning, rota's and stock control at an AGM level.
• Demonstrate your ability to lean into challenges, develop solutions and be the face of our brand at all levels.
• Demonstrate how you drive results and performance manage your teams through mentorship and coaching.

About you:

• You have been working as an Assistant General Manager/ General Manager in a busy restaurant environment for at least the past year.
• You are accomplished in bars having held a bar management position through your career.
• You want to be part of a company that can help you flourish and become the best you can be.
• Working in partnership with the General Manager, your big-hearted approach will make coaching and developing other members of the team a natural focus.
• You are ready to be the General Manager’s right arm; a natural leader, assuming responsibility to ensure the restaurant runs as it should in their absence.
• You’re commercially savvy and bring ideas to the table, eager to develop your overall awareness and understanding further.
• First-class service is your priority; always prepared to seek tough feedback, working closely with the General Manager to ensure you raise the standards every day and exceed everyone’s expectations.

Look forward to meeting you.

INDMGT