Food & Beverage Manager

Pullman Chennai Anna Salai offers 232 stylish rooms, a swimming pool, fitness center, spa, two signature dining venues, versatile banquet spaces, boardrooms, and social lounges-ideal for business and leisure travelers. The hotel is perfectly equipped to host a wide range of MICE events, featuring versatile modular venues that can accommodate up to 400 guests, from intimate meetings to grand celebrations.

• Analysis the sales and revenue and strives to achieve and exceed the Financial budgets as per hotel policy.
• Helps increase guest loyalty through quality of service
• Reviews inventories and manages stocks under his/her responsibility
• Increases revenue for the point of sale through additional sales techniques
• Is overall responsible for the financial performance of the Food and Beverage
• Prepares and analyses financial reports/results and implements corrective actions as necessary
• Manages the costs in accordance with the expense budgets and insures efforts to reduce costs and expenses without compromising on quality.
• Ensures strict adherence to Internal bill settlement policy, as per the company/hotel guidelines..
•  Boosts cross-departmental working methods thanks to his/her relational skills, adaptability and professionalism.
• Ensures prompt guest recognition on the basis of VIP list / repeat guests as per the guest history.
• Takes the global level of activity into account when managing the flow of guests and constantly checks the quality, speed and overall efficiency of the team/waiting staff.
• Ensures that the Back of the house service areas is maintained as per the hotel standards.
• Plan for future staffing needs
• Interview, select and recruit team members
• Identify and develop team members with potential. Mentor and train appropriate employees for upward growth
• Conduct performance review with the team
• Constantly monitor team members’ appearance, attitude and degree of professionalism
• Develop, conduct maintain all staff training programs for team members, focusing on their development needs, providing them with new skills to meet the changing needs of the business
• Prepare weekly staff schedules keeping in mind anticipated business, operating budgets and standards of service
• Conduct monthly departmental meetings to provide information to team members, obtain their feedback, rectify operation issues and provide a regular forum for department communication

• Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in a similar role
• Excellent reading, writing and oral proficiency in English language
• Ability to speak other languages and basic understanding of local languages will be an advantage
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel, Word, & PowerPoint
• High degree of professionalism with sound resources management and business acumen capabilities

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