Beverage Manager - Carpenter Hotel

The Opportunity:

The Beverage Manager is responsible for executing the vision of the Beverage Program for Carpenters Hall. The Beverage Manager is the heart of The Hall Bar's culture and the creative driver & standard bearer for beverage programming. This role is crucial in setting the bar for excellence, leading the bar team's daily operations, ensuring consistency in both the tangible product and the intangible guest experience, and coaching the team to strive for greatness each day.

The Beverage Manager provides constant, gentle pressure to ensure the team is aligned on overarching goals and specific priorities and that our standards for operating are being adhered to, if not, exceeded.

The person in this position must have good communication skills, the ability to resolve conflict and a thorough understanding of Bunkhouse policies. Food & Beverage Service Managers must develop and maintain the company's culture, values, and reputation in the public eye, and with all staff, guests, vendors and partners.

Who We Are:

Opened in fall 2018, this South Austin hotel is one with its lush surroundings. Carpenter Hotel features a pool with a community deck and Q Hut pavilion. Each of its 93 rooms comes with a terrace. Take in the scenery with fare from our all-day Coffee Bar or enjoy a meal on the patio or in the dining rooms of our restaurant, Carpenters Hall.

The hotel is nestled in an old pecan grove on the edge of Zilker Park in South Austin. It's an easy walk to Lady Bird Lake, downtown, and central to everything worth doing.

We're Proud to Offer Exceptional Benefits, which Include:

* Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match

* Free room nights, Discounted and Friends & Family Room Rates

* Generous Paid Time Off

* Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace

* Discounts at various retailers
-Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Headspace and many more!

Key Responsibilities:

* Be present in our operations, the market, and our competitive set, ensuring that we are positioned as the industry leader, evolving our guest and team experiences, our programming and social media presence, community outreach and collaboration, as such maintaining our place as a destination of choice as well as the employer of choice.

* Coach bar leaders on profitability, ensuring that we are financially responsible, proactively flexing expenses when top line is soft, providing the tools to the team to run their departments effectively, yet efficiently, managing all labor and expenses tightly.

* Create, review, and constantly improve organizational effectiveness of Bar operations and beverage prep by maintaining processes, overseeing employees, establishing a highly motivational work environment, and implementing innovative changes.

* Work cohesively with the leadership team to achieve a consistent culture that represents our brand appropriately and promotes and upholds our standards of service.

* Perpetuate a positive teaching environment encouraging the team to take ownership of the guest experience, learn every day and aspire to do better each day.

* Work with department heads to create departmental paths and projects as they relate to beverage programming, prescribe timelines and priorities, assign performance goals, and ensure their timely completion.

* Motivate, coach, counsel and discipline bar management personnel, according to our S.O.P.'s.

* Solicit team member and guest feedback to ensure the experience we are providing for both internal and external guests exceeds our standards and expectations, learning from experiences and taking corrective action as needed.

* Participate in ongoing food, beverage, and sanitation seminars to keep information top of mind.

* Manage Bar Labor and Control Liquor, Beer & NA COGS proactively to ensure the best experience for our guests and associates while being fiscally responsible.

* Ensure the team has all the information, products, and tools necessary to be successful.

* Observe beverage trends and stay current, presenting new thoughts and ideas to the team, resulting in compelling and thoughtful experiences for our guests.

* Aid in interviewing, hiring, training,…