Food and Beverage Director

WildBlue is excited to announce the exceptional career opportunity of Food and Beverage Director. Qualified candidates will thrive in a hospitality environment and be highly focused on providing superior service to customers, residents and resort guests.

• Cultivate culture of hospitality whereby service predictability, leadership and accountability are front and center in all dealings.
• Institutionalize a culture of training whereby Quality Standards, SOPs, Self-Audits and routine skills-based, behavior-based and safety-based content is deployed routinely and tracked with a meaningful syllabus.
• Assist with interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning, and directing work, evaluating performance, rewarding, and disciplining associates; addressing complaints and resolving problems. 
• Assists in the management of department members that may include but is not limited to all Culinary and wait staff including servers, Reservationist, Runners, Bartenders, Hosts, Banquet, Building Maintenance. 
• Assist with budget preparation in all Food and Beverage related areas.
• Controls expenses in concert with volume
• Contributes to sales growth programming with maximum profit margins 
• Insures Resort delivers a relevant and contemporary beverage program
• Insures Resort routinely re-imagines it’s a la carte and banquet menus with regular seasonal changes
• Reviews current day’s business levels in all operations and assigns priorities as needed. 
• Relays pertinent information to key staff including, Executive Chef, Beverage Manager, Dining Manager, Executive Offices, Concierge, and Membership Office as needed. 
  Assists General Manager in monitoring success of Food and Beverage related departments and associates, including semi-annual performance reviews, as needed.
• Conducts regular staff meetings with colleagues, subordinates and related parties. 
• Assures that effective orientation and training are given to each new associate. Assists in developing ongoing training programs. 
• Prepares and monitors quarterly revenue goals and expenses as well as generating various (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual) business volume reports and forecasts.
• Responsible for pre-approving, receiving and ultimate inventory control for all Food and Beverage related areas.

• Bachelor’s degree (BA) from four-year college or university; or four to six years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Knowledge hospitality POS system application, hardware, software and menu programing. 
• Experience in Multi-faceted Food and Beverage operations.