Service Associate - Lead Bartender

Find Your Shangri-La in Shangri-La.
Shangri-La has been creating joyful moments through heartfelt hospitality since 1971 – and that spirit continues to guide us today.

Shangri-La Toronto
Find Your Shangri-La in Shangri-La.
Shangri-La has been creating joyful moments through heartfelt hospitality since 1971 – and that spirit continues to guide us today.

As we look ahead to new horizons, we invite you to be part of our growing Shangri-La family and make a meaningful impact in the world – through joy, shared purpose, and our Asian art of hosting.

Located in the heart of the city, Shangri-La Toronto is an elegant sanctuary, nestled between the bustling business and entertainment districts. With the city’s best shopping, sports, live theatre, and cultural venues in proximity, guests enjoy unparalleled access to Toronto's vibrant offerings.

As a Service Associate – Lead Bartender
Through consistent application of Shangri-La’s Core Practices and effective hands on participation in the service, ensures the highest quality standards of the Bar operations. Shows creativity, personal commitment and a true sense of hospitality, making the most impact on guest experiences in the bar through consistent application of Shangri-La’s core practices, maximizing colleague, guest and owner satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

Demonstrate a high level of integrity, provide a 5-Star experience to Guests and Colleagues in providing true Shangri-La hospitality from a caring family.

Interact with Colleagues as internal customers, strategic partners in delivering Shangri-La hospitality from caring people according to brand service deliverables.

Through personal presence, style and personality, inspire a high level of warmth and professionalism amongst the bar service team, modeling a genuine personal commitment to service excellence and an emotional sense of gracious hospitality.

In conjunction with the management team develop the Bar and Beverage program of Shangri-La Toronto; and responsible for making changes to the cocktail and spirits menu based on guest feedback and creative initiatives in line with budgeted business goals.

Supervises the monthly inventory of the bar and is responsible for PAR levels as well as dialing ordering for the bar.

Creatively work towards coming up with Beverage promotions and partnerships in conjunction with the management team. Focus on creating memorable guest experiences.

Ensuring that all events and promotions are geared towards raising awareness of the bar in terms of Public and Trade relations.

Effectively coach and train all new members of the team on the beverage program and standards, provide performance feedback on a regular basis to the management team

Assist in identifying departmental training needs for monthly training plans.

Maintain expert knowledge of local bar trends and events

Evaluate standards of cleanliness, maintenance and presentation plus safety of the bar through inspections and in conjunction with the management team ensures areas of deficiency are resolved to achieve service expectations.

Ensures that the day-to-day operations of the bar meet and/or exceed the service standards and hotel’s operational policies which include SFSMS (food safety) requirements.

Attends daily / monthly communications meetings within the department, ensuring effective communication amongst colleagues

Ensures full compliance by the team with local laws as related to safe and responsible service of all alcohol

About You

Ability to identify areas of improvement and implement systems for improvement.

Functional knowledge – Passion for food and strives to exceed expectations for service excellence with demonstrated understanding of international fine dining, wine, beverage and service standards…