Head of Bars

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Caravan Restaurants Full time

**Group Head of Bars**

**The Role**:
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and superstar Group Head of Bars to join our journey As the operational lead of our Caravan Bars, you'll be instrumental in driving efficiency, ensuring profitability, and maintaining impeccable service standards. This role is tailor-made for a seasoned Bars and Beverage professional with a proven track record of managing multiple sites and leading high-performing teams.

Our Group Head of Bars will be fully responsible for all Caravan Bars: drinks, specs, bar service standards, training, and site support. You will ensure an excellent drinking experience for our customers, leading from the front and able to execute the drinks menu with efficiency and flair. You will bring our bar offering to new heights and you will drive a strong Caravan culture across all sites, providing operational support and hands-on assistance when required.

You'll also oversee the meticulous crafting and periodic fine-tuning of our seasonal drinks menu, spanning an appealing range of non-alcoholic beverages, wines, and cocktails. Collaborating closely with our Founders, Laura Harper-Hinton (Creative Director) and Miles Kirby (Food and Drink Director), alongside Chris Ammerman, who heads our wine program, you'll bring a strategic lens to menu planning, leveraging data and analytics to achieve sales and supplier targets for retros. While your primary focus will be on operational excellence, your creative insights will be welcomed and integrated into our processes, adding to our offerings within our highly creative, dynamic and fast-paced environment.

**To say thanks for choosing us, we offer our Group Head of Bars**:

- Great staff food when on shift.
- Dining discount when visiting with family & friends.
- Coffee discount
- Bike to work scheme
- Mental health and well-being support
- Financial health education and support
- Leadership training and development
- Birthday & Anniversary Treat - on your birthday and on your work anniversary, you'll receive a Caravan voucher to spend in any of our restaurants
- Social events and seasonal team parties
- Development and career progression, 80% of all our management roles are filled internally.

**As Caravan’s Group Head of Bars, you will be responsible for**:
Lead our bars taking full ownership of all aspects of operations, with a keen focus on driving commercial success. This encompasses strategic menu planning informed by data and analytics to achieve sales and supplier targets for retros.
- **Strategic Planning and Revenue Growth**: Present and create new strategies to drive revenue and performance across beverage-driven areas, ensuring consistency and brand standards.
- **Knowledge and Expertise**: Possess sound knowledge of spirits, classic cocktails, and coffee; passionate about quality food ingredients and artisan coffee.
- **Customer Excellence**: setting service standards, from design to delivery, execution and follow up.
- **Menu Development**: creative, structural, and seasonable menu changes.
- **Stock Management and Cost Control**: Analyse stock takes across all sites, work with FnB to achieve required GP for drinks, manage wastage, and minimise out-of-date stock.
- **Team Training, Development, and People Management**: Implement training plans for consistency and progression, liaise with people and operations team for on-the-job training, and support management on people-related matters including recruitment and performance.
- **Health and Safety Compliance**: Maintain high health and safety standards in all bars with updated and executed checklists and cleaning schedules.
- **System Management and Troubleshooting**: Communicate and facilitate systems for menu, till, and pricing updates; troubleshoot POS systems to ensure smooth ordering and delivery processes.

**About Caravan**:
Here at Caravan, we like push the boundaries. Our well-travelled food and drinks range is all about marrying flavours from all around the globe. Our seasonally changing drinks menu features handcrafted ingredients, ranging from alcoholic concoctions to pioneering our non-alcoholic offerings.

We also share a love of mighty fine coffee, great drinks, good food and friendly vibes. Over the past 14 years, we have built our award-winning restaurants and roastery as well as investing time, money and resources into initiatives that have a positive impact on the world around us. We believe challenging perceptions, championing people, community, diversity, inclusion and sustainability. We prioritise both people and the planet in everything that we do. Our commitment to sustainability is evident through various initiatives, including the use of energy-efficient equipment and proactive measures to reduce waste. We encourage leadership at all levels to champion our sustainability goals and continually seek ways to enhance our environmental impact.

We also actively promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

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