Restaurant & Suite Manager

Job No: NIC901
Location: Nottingham

Restaurant & Suite Manager
 
We are looking for a hard-working individual who enjoys running their own team, you must be organised and must be dressed presentable at all times. Within this role you will be given opportunities to express your passion for hospitality and leave a real stamp on your customers experiences whilst at the Motorpoint arena. Control day-to-day life in our department ensuring no time is wasted and planning ahead for the following events. Over the last year we have hosted so many amazing events from the Stanley cup, Boxing matches, Lewis Capaldi the list goes on. You could help make these events epic!!
 
Who Are We

We are the Motorpoint Arena & National Ice Centre, Nottingham. The largest entertainment venue in the East Midlands with a crowd capacity of 10,000. Showcasing the biggest names in music, comedy, entertainment and sport, we host over 100 events and welcome 800,000+ visitors through our doors each year. Home to the Nottingham Panthers Ice Hockey Team, where they play 30+ home league & cups games each season.

With an adaptable restaurant space that can host parties & networking for up to 200 people & seated dinners for up to 120, and 45 hospitality suites, it means that no two days are the same. 

What You Will Be Doing
  • To plan and run both restaurants and suites on event days

  • Manage stock levels and rotation, liaise with F&B management to ensure adequate stock levels

  • To maintain a positive work environment for staff

  • Ensure customers in your areas are satisfied with the service they have received

  • Keep all areas clean and tidy day to day

  • Working with the staffing team to ensure adequate staff levels across all areas and all staff are trained to a high level

  • Work with the HOM to enhance the service within your designated areas

  • Work closely with the hospitality sales team

  • Work closely with the chefs

  • Understand all laws relating to your areas (licencing, food safety and health and safety)

  • Ensure menus are correct and suitable to the customers attending, working with F&B management to offer event night specials based on customer profile

  • Resolve all customer complaints to ensure a satisfactory outcome 

Key Duties & Responsibilities

  • Deliver the highest standard of service within all restaurants and suite areas

  • Supervise and motivate members of the team including briefing of staff on event day and running all areas of the department

  • Lead and co-ordinate the setup of rooms, suites and restaurants for service

  • Maintain high standards in all areas of hospitality

  • In the absence of the HOM be able to maintain the consistency of the department

  • Work with the hospitality sales team to understand hospitality guest attendance of the event and work closely with the Head Chef and kitchen team to manage a day-to-day operation

  • Ensuring that their team remains polite and courteous to our customers whilst working under pressure

  • Responsible for the meeting of customers who are attending events

  • Making sure stock take is completed accurately

  • Work alongside the HOM develop the team and recruit to expand the team

  • To ensure that they and the team, understand their responsibilities in relation to the sale of age restricted products including: Selling alcohol to a person under 18 years of age Selling cigars and vape products The sale of monster and other energy drinks

  • You must be friendly, approachable, and able to work under pressure independently

  • During quieter times support within other areas of the business

 What We Expect
  • Team player

  • Friendly, polite & well presented

  • Ability to work to deadlines

  • To adhere to company & statutory regulations relating to safe systems of work, health & safety, food safety, hygiene, cleanliness, licencing, fire & COSHH.

  • For you to have experience in a similar role

  • All staff are expected to maintain high standards of customer care, to uphold the Equality and Diversity Policy and Health & Safety standards, and to participate in training activities necessary to their post

 Person Specification

Area of Responsibility Requirements Essential/ Desirable
Professional Qualifications  Hospitality supervision level 3 Desirable
Experience & Knowledge At least 2 years within a hospitality organisation Essential
Customer Focus Making the customer journey amazing Essential
Financial Planning & Control Previously to have worked with handling money Essential
General  Have a good understanding of conferencing and restaurant Essential
Communication  Have good communication with staff and customers Essential
Equality & Diversity  Must demonstrate an awareness of equality issues, and a commitment to the implementation of the National Ice Centre Equality and Diversity Policy Ability to challenge discriminatory behaviour. Essential

 

What We Will Offer You
  • Competitive Salary

  • Permanent, full time contract

  • 33 days holiday per annum (including bank holidays)

  • Training opportunities

  • Perks (parking levy, local business discounts, 15% off F&B onsite)

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At the Nottingham Ice Centre Ltd, our people and those around us are at the heart of what we do and how we behave. Our passion is for our venues to be lived and breathed by everyone; whether they’re attending a concert, cheering on their favourite sports team or visiting us each day as their place of work.

By working together and having the determination and drive to succeed, we can ensure we deliver outstanding service and create everlasting memories for everyone we reach. If you have the determination to develop and be the best you can possibly be, as well as tackle tasks with integrity and innovation, we’re the right workplace for you.