Senior Sommelier, The Strathearn

**Job Ref**:GLE1239

**Branch**:The Gleneagles Hotel

**Location**:The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder

**Salary/Benefits**:£32,270 annual leave

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full Time

**Hours per week**:39

**Posted date**:03/08/2023

**Closing date**:05/09/2023

**COME AND JOIN US...**

We are currently seeking a thoughtful, dynamic and knowledgeable **Senior Sommelier** to join our Fine Dining Restaurant, the Strathearn.

The on target earning potential for this role is £32,270 / annual salary - comprising a base salary of £26,270.71, plus a qualified estimate of £6,000 in gratuities and service charge.* As a member of the Gleneagles team, you will also enjoy a fantastic range of perks, benefits and rewards

**ABOUT GLENEAGLES**

One of the world’s most iconic luxury hotels and country estates, Gleneagles has been making memories for nearly a century. Recently crowned ‘Best Hotel in the World’ in the Virtuoso Best of the Best Awards, everything we do is about surpassing expectations and creating exceptional hospitality experiences for our guests.

**WORKING AT GLENEAGLES**

We’re devoted to making our people feel as valued as our guests. In this way, we strive to support the whole ‘you’ - not just the professional part but the personal part too. People join our team for all sorts of reasons. Some work here permanently to develop a career, some work seasonally, while others have a schedule to fit around their personal commitments. However long you plan to stay with us and whatever hours you’d prefer to work, we’re open to flexible working requests and offer hours, shift patterns and contract types to suit everyone.

Location; Auchterarder, just off the A9. Gleneagles is also within easy reach of a number of Scottish towns and cities: Edinburgh City Centre (1hr), Glasgow or Dundee (50mins), Stirling and Perth (25mins).

**Here's a bit more detail on what we see you doing in this role**:

- Sharing your incredible passion and depth of knowledge for wines and beverages with our guests; creatively and expertly advising on the selection of the perfect accompaniment to their chosen dish
- Creating a warm, exceptionally memorable wine experience for all our guests
- You’ll be nurturing and developing talent, ensuring that your passion and expertise is lived through others
- Instilling a culture of continuous development and innovation, identifying new ways to surprise and delight your guests and our people
- Imparting your vast knowledge to your team, ensuring a seamless, professional service, contributing to their development both professional and personal
- You’ll intuitively read the room, anticipating, and fulfilling the expectations of our guests; always warm, thoughtful, professional, and well groomed, you play your part in ensuring luxury service is our signature
- Engaging, motivating, and inspiring a strong and passionate wine team, you’ll ensure they consistently deliver exceptional service and are equally spell-bound by the magic and theatre of the experiences they create through wine
- Maintaining the highest standards of service, room preparation and presentation throughout the restaurant; you’ll be instrumental in making sure our service is always slick
- You’ll be proficiently up selling and encouraging other team members to do the same at every opportunity
- Taking a keen interest in the operation and develop suggestions as to ways of increasing quality of service
- Interacting with our guests, always warm, professional, helpful and doing everything you can to exceed their expectations; playing your part in making their stay with us luxurious in every way

**The kind of person **we're looking for**:

- You’ll have a strong working knowledge of fine-dining and quality service standards; WSET 2 is essential as a minimum, ideally having achieved your WSET 3
- Having had experience within a luxury hospitality environment would be ideal, however having a great attitude and passion for wine is essential
- Your perspective and approach are always fresh; no matter how many times an issue has been presented to you, to your guest it’s the first time
- With a keen eye for detail, an organised approach and willingness to exceed guest expectation, you want to be the best and work with the best - learning from the experts in our team and sharing your knowledge with us
- You have a high level of resilience and the ability to deal with fast-paced environments is essential
- Highly motivated and possessing an immense sense of pride in your work; you're passionate about delivering the high standards for our guests in line with the Gleneagles brand
- You have a positive “can do” attitude to solving problems in a professional and courteous manner
- A strong team player with great communication skills and an enthusiastic approach; you're well organised and punctual with an eagle eye for detail
- You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other and abov