Designate General Manager, Chef & Brewer

Salary:£30,000.00 - 40,000.00

Essex GBR

Come and join Chef & Brewer a truly British Brand. With the most beautiful and historic pubs within Greene King, the biggest pub company in the kingdom and high quality dishes at the heart of everything we do.

The Designate Manager Role

Our Designate General Manager programme is designed for experienced managers currently working in a retail, service, customer-facing industry or non-branded pub environment, who are keen to train into a new career as a General Manager within Greene King. With our fantastic fast-track training, you could be managing your own pub in less than six months.

The programme involves

2 weeks at Head Office, getting to know Greene King, support staff and completing industry compliance training which includes Cellar Management (IBAQ), Management of Food Safety and Management of Health & Safety
Up to a further 10 weeks in a Training House - on the job training alongside experienced managers
Completion of Relief and Holding Management roles - to gain experience from a variety of businesses.
The programme is designed to monitor your performance with regular reviews throughout. During this time your will receive continuous support from your training manager and the Business Development Manager.
After a successful final assessment, designate managers should be ready for their first appointment as a Retail Manager, subject to the right pub being available.

Experience

Management experience with overall responsibility, preferably in a customer facing, service or retail environment
Accountability for all aspects of leading, motivating and managing a team of at least 5 people including recruitment, training, development & managing employee relations
Evidence of Financial acumen & business development sales and profit growth, effective control of costs/wages/stock, budgets.

Skills & Personal Attributes:

Flexibility and the ability to move around geographically for training and relief roles
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, train and develop a team to achieve outstanding results, and directly manage poor performance
Business focus - ability to generate additional revenue by maximising opportunities and actively promoting the business to develop a significant competitive advantage

We Value You

* Competitive Salary & Bonus Scheme
* Work Life Balance
* Pension Scheme
* Life Insurance
* 33% Greene King Discount (for all managed pubs including Local Pubs and brands such as Hungry Horse, Flaming Grill, Chef & Brewer and Farmhouse Inns)
* Excellent Training and Career Progression opportunities across a range of impressive brands and businesses. Such as Management Development Programmes and NVQs.
* Friends and Family Discount Scheme entitles you to invite friends and family to join the discount scheme and benefit from up to 25% off food and drink
* By putting our CUSTOMER at the heart of what we do you will be joining a great TEAM that aspires to always treat each other with RESPECT and achieves great RESULTS