Director of Food And Beverage

Location: Mountain Resort Destination, United States

Compensation: Salary DOE

Position: Director of Food & Beverage

Search: Confidential

Sky Bridge Luxury & Associates has been retained to identify an accomplished Director of Food & Beverage for a distinguished luxury mountain resort in the United States.

This is a senior operational leadership position within a sophisticated resort environment known for exceptional service, elevated culinary experiences, and uncompromising luxury standards.

The Director of Food & Beverage will provide strategic and hands‑on leadership across a diverse resort F&B operation while developing a culture of accountability, consistency, creativity, and genuine hospitality.

This position requires an established luxury hotel or resort executive who understands what it takes to consistently operate at the Forbes Five-Star level
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The Director of Food & Beverage will oversee the overall performance and guest experience of the resort's food and beverage operation, including multiple dining experiences, bars and lounges, banquets and events, in-room dining, and seasonal resort programming.

The successful leader will be highly visible within the operation and capable of balancing:

• Luxury service execution
• Restaurant and bar operations
• Banquet and event performance
• Culinary partnership
• Labor productivity
• Guest satisfaction
• Concept positioning and continuous improvement

The Director of Food & Beverage must be comfortable leading from the floor, engaging with guests, coaching leaders in real time, and maintaining a strong pulse on the operation.

• Provide executive leadership for the resort's complete food and beverage operation.
• Establish and maintain exceptional luxury service standards throughout every F&B experience.
• Ensure consistent execution of Forbes Five-Star service expectations
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• Lead, develop, mentor, and hold accountable a team of senior F&B leaders and department managers.
• Create a strong culture of ownership, professionalism, service excellence, and operational discipline.
• Maintain a highly visible presence throughout restaurants, lounges, events, and guest-facing areas.
• Partner closely with the Executive Chef and culinary leadership to ensure seamless alignment between front- and back-of-house operations.
• Drive revenue, profitability, labor management, cost controls, forecasting, budgeting, and overall departmental financial performance.
• Evaluate existing restaurant and beverage experiences and identify opportunities to strengthen service, positioning, programming, and profitability.
• Ensure strong execution of banquet, catering, wedding, group, and special-event experiences.
• Develop leaders capable of consistently executing luxury standards without sacrificing authenticity or warmth.
• Utilize guest feedback and operational performance indicators to identify trends and immediately address service opportunities.
• Maintain exceptional standards surrounding cleanliness, presentation, sequence of service, product knowledge, training, and guest recognition.
• Partner with resort leadership on strategic initiatives, seasonal programming, capital priorities, and the continued evolution of the F&B experience.

Candidates must meet the following minimum qualifications:

• Forbes Five-Star hotel or resort experience is REQUIRED.
• Minimum five years of experience as a Director of Food & Beverage is REQUIRED.
• Significant leadership experience within the luxury or ultra-luxury hotel/resort sector
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• Demonstrated experience leading a complex, multi-outlet food and beverage operation.
• Strong restaurant, beverage, banquet, and event operations experience.
• Proven success managing significant departmental revenues, budgets, labor, and profitability.
• Track record of developing high-performing leadership teams.
• Strong understanding of luxury service standards and the behaviors required to execute them consistently.
• Experience working collaboratively with culinary leadership at an executive level.
• Excellent communication, leadership, financial, and organizational skills.

We are seeking a sophisticated hospitality operator who combines Five-Star polish with genuine operational intensity
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The ideal candidate is:

• Highly visible and engaged
• Detail-oriented without becoming transactional
• Financially disciplined
• Passionate about restaurants and luxury hospitality
• Comfortable leading complex resort operations
• Strong at creating accountability
• An exceptional developer of people
• Calm and composed in high-pressure environments
• Capable of inspiring both seasoned leaders and frontline associates
• Obsessed with consistency without making luxury feel scripted

Most importantly, this individual understands that Five-Star hospitality is created through thousands of small operational and behavioral decisions made correctly every day.

Compensation will be commensurate with the experience, scope, and qualifications of the selected executive.

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