Assistant Director Food & Beverage - Plant Riverside District

An inspiring career awaits you! 
 
The Kessler Collection is a portfolio of luxury boutique hotels, unique restaurants and experiences with a Bohemian twist. The collection's captivating hotels feature curated art, original music, unique architecture and stories around every corner, all located in destinations people want to be. Our mission of inspiring places, intuitive service, and exuberant guests means we are committed to our Grand Performers learning, development, and well-being. We believe people want to be inspired!

Grand Performers may enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Marriott Employee Discounts Worldwide
• Competitive Wage & Discretionary Bonus Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Company-Sponsored Life Insurance
• Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• 401(K) with Discretionary Company Matching Contributions
• Employee Assistance Program

JOB SUMMARY

The overall objective and purpose of the Assistant Food and Beverage Director position are to assist the Director of Food and Beverage in coordinating, supervising, and directing all property food and beverage operations while maintaining a profitable F&B department and high-quality products and service levels.  The incumbent is responsible for marketing creative ideas to promote business; reduce turnover; maintain revenue and payroll budgets and meet budgeted productivity while keeping quality consistent with Company standards. They are to provide inspiring and strategic leadership while directing the activities of the Food & Beverage Department in support of the mission, core values, standards, and goals established by the company.

CORE RESPONSIBILITY 

Primary areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to the following:

• Taking orders from the director and bring them to the staff. 
• Discuss the budget and accordingly plan the inventory, chart menu cards along with their prices in the approval of the director. 
• Supervise the activities of the staff to get the desired tastes to the likes of the customers. 
• Oversee the duties carried out on day to day basis; provide the inventory and funds required on need. 
• Watch over the paperwork done while noting down day-to-day expenses, direct the staff to record the daily expenses incurred. 
• Arrange meetings on daily basis to speak about the desirable changes in the interest of the staff to ensure smooth functioning of the orders. 
• Responsible to handle the inside matters to enhance the image of the hotel industry in the satisfaction of the consumers. 
• Monitor and control payroll and other expenses
• Helps with directing food and beverage services organizational strategies by contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to functional strategic thinking and direction.
• Participate in weekly department head meetings, Event Order meetings, and individual meetings as needed to meet business plan objectives and provide the appropriate communication and direction.
• Analyzes trends, prepares critical measurements, develops the F&B business plan; addresses customers, profits, associates, and markets with the hotel management team; implements production, productivity, quality, and guest-service strategies, designs systems solve problems; implements change
• Helps with the Implementation of food and beverage financial strategies by anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; development of budgets and capital expenditure plans; development of action plans, measures and analyzes results, initiation of corrective actions, minimizing the impact of variances
• Approves menus by consulting with Director of Food and Beverage, executive chef, beverage manager, room service manager, and banquet managers; reviews potential F&B menus; evaluates popularity of past menu options and availability of seasonal food ingredients and wines; anticipates food and beverage consumption and estimates the cost of ingredients; minimizing waste; approving orders with suppliers; monitors the evaluation of the quality of product
• Controls F&B supplies by meeting with sales representatives; negotiating prices and contracts; developing preferred supplier lists; reviewing and evaluating usage reports; analyzing variances; taking corrective actions.
• Keeps F&B equipment operating by enforcing adherence to operating instructions
• Maintains safe, secure, legal, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation and quality of food and beverage preparation and service standards and procedures; monitors conformance to the regulations of the alcoholic beverage commission; enforcing sanitation and legal regulations of all kitchens, bars and service areas.
• Identifies current and future customer service requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand guest service requirements.
• Maintain the integrity of Company proprietary information and protect Company assets
• All other duties as assigned, planned or un-planned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

To perform this role successfully, an individual must have experience achieving desired result(s) in their areas of responsibility. The requirements listed below are representative of observable behaviors and essential knowledge, skill, and abilities required of a successful incumbent.

• Strategic business leader - Works strategically to devise plans in alignment with organizational goals.
• Cultivates engagement - Builds loyalty to the company and not to themselves. Proven ability to host/facilitate effective meetings, motivate teams to produce results with tight timeframes while simultaneously managing several projects.
• Generates alignment - Ensures proper time and effort is spent to build high-level performance and consistency throughout collection.
• Leads with courage - Provides a culture of accountability.
• Execution of plans - Utilizes our systems, tools, and resources to accomplish results and achieve goals
• Advanced level of written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to implement and uphold service standards
• Effectively motivate associates and maintain a cohesive team
• Ability to prioritize and organize work assignments
• Ability to work well in stressful, high-pressure situations
• Ability to work with and understand financial information, data, and basic arithmetic functions

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related training equivalent - required
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in similar scope and title – required
• Experience within luxury brand/markets – required

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervisory and leadership responsibilities include achieving results through providing direction and accountability of the following Grand Performers within the culture and policies established by the Kessler Collection. 

• F&B Outlet Managers and Supervisors 
• Banquets Managers and Captains

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment/conditions described herein are representative of those that an incumbent may experience.

• Must be comfortable working in a shared space, with constant noise, without the use of a private office.
• Must be able to cope with frequent changing priorities and deadlines with a high degree of optimism, professionalism & collaboration.
• Schedules may vary from week to week based on business demands in excess of 40 hours with or without notice.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an incumbent to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to move 10lbs on a daily basis.
• Push, pull, and lift up to 50lbs on a weekly basis.
• While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to travel by foot, car, bus,  airplane, or other means of transportation which require sitting, waiting and standing for long and short periods of time. 

The Kessler Collection is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.