A luxury hospitality brand for modern travellers, Anantara connects guests to genuine places, people and stories through personal experiences and providing heartfelt hospitality in the world’s most exciting destinations. From pristine islands and tropical beaches to cosmopolitan cities, tranquil deserts and lush jungles, Anantara welcomes guests for journeys rich in discovery.
Job DescriptionYou are a bar professional which is in an artistic and creative role, and as such the management team will look to you to develop original and exciting beverages using the best of local ingredients and traditions. You are responsible for ensuring that guests are delighted by the quality, creativity and variety of our beverage offerings. Your key duties and responsibilities are to serve the guests in accordance with our standards and quality in a gracious and courteous manner, to make sure that the bar is professionally set up at all times, and to process drink orders quickly and efficiently. You will be expected to take pride in all facets of service, quality, appearance, and cleanliness of yourself and your area of responsibility, and you must understand and adhere to the Beverage Department Standard Operating Procedures, and Beverage Manual.
Qualifications• Previous experience in a Food & Beverage/Events leadership role
• Passion for leadership and teamwork
• Eye for detail to achieve operational excellence
• Excellent guest service and sales skills
- To ensure weekly bar payroll forecasting is completed and that rosters are in line with budget.
- To ensure departmental costs are in line with budget.
- To ensure that the Bar is well organized daily for expected business levels
- To ensure the Bar operates under our HACCP, Fire, Health & Safety guidelines.
- To ensure that the Bar team are familiar with cash handling and to ensure all controls are in place and adhered to.
- To monitor and control beverage stock levels, costs, procedures and stock takes.
- To conduct quarterly equipment stocktaking as per the required standards
- To monitor and identify urgent equipment requirements
- To drive bookings for quieter periods to maximize revenue
- To ensure the team are trained and working according to LQA standards
- To implement of training procedures to drive standards in the outlets
- To lead the bar department with regards to sales
- To take ownership of stocktaking unordering systems
- To update menus and prices on POS
- To prepare effective rosters to suit business demand
- To carry out briefings with the team to ensure consistency
- To be creative in designing cocktail lists and bar menus
