Assistant Restaurant & Bar Manager

Working with us provides great benefits, including:

• Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform ‘Wagestream,’ a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
• Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
• 50% off Food Beverage at all our Hotels FB Venues
• Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
• Retail, Cinema Leisure Discounts
• Development Opportunities via our ‘Grow with us’ initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
• Monthly ‘Star of the Month’ Awards
• Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
• ‘Recommend a Friend’ Incentive – Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
• Access to a confidential ‘Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)’ available 24/7, 365 days per year.
• Pension Scheme
• Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

About the role…

You’ll be responsible for ensuring the Restaurant Bar runs efficiently and that customers are satisfied with the quality of food and the service they receive. You’ll be a great leader, effectively developing and managing the team and be polite, courteous and professional. Under your leadership, the team will provide a memorable and efficient service at all times to maintain an exceptional standard of service and quality.

You will be contribute to the business performance of the Restaurant/ Bar within the venue, and support in marketing activities, such as promotional events and discount schemes. You'll prepare reports at the end of each shift / week to ensure cost controls are in place and on track. In the absence of the senior leadership team you will have overall responsibility for the department, work to the highest of quality control, hygiene and health and safety standards, and ensure that all internal and external audits are meeting the required benchmark.

You will have had previous experience in a similar role in a restaurant or similar with excellent Food Beverage knowledge, good financial awareness with an understanding of revenue streams and cost control.

About us…

At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

The Cairn Group’s Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre is a modern hotel conveniently located near to the Birmingham New Street train station.
The hotel is within an easy walk of the great bars and restaurants found in the Arcadian complex, as well as both the Hippodrome and New Alexandra theatres, Birmingham’s China Town district, The Mailbox shopping centre and the Bullring commercial area.

Benefits:
IHG Staff Rate Scheme
IHG Friends Family Rate
IHG Brand Training
Cairn Group Staff Discount Scheme
Retail and travel discounts
Recruit a friend Scheme
Induction and training programme
Star of the Month Golden Ticket Award
Pension scheme
'Cairn Academy' Training Development Opportunities
Uniform
Cycle 2 work scheme*
(* Applies to positions above minimum wage)