Job Description

General Manager | Haar with Rooms | St Andrews

We are on the hunt for a General Manager to join Haar Restaurant. We're looking for someone with exceptional people skills, natural charisma, and a passion for food and drink. But first, here's a little bit about us:

Chef Dean Banks, a finalist on MasterChef: The Professionals, opened his flagship restaurant in St Andrews in Spring 2019. Since then, Haar has earned recognition as one of the top sustainable restaurants in the UK, has been featured in the Michelin Guide every year since 2019, and holds 3 AA Rosettes.

In 2021, Haar with Rooms launched, offering six boutique rooms and immediately achieving 5 AA Gold Stars.

The restaurant provides a relaxed setting for Dean Banks' innovative cooking, showcasing the finest produce Scotland has to offer. Haar's menu constantly evolves with the seasons, celebrating Scotland's natural land and sea resources. Guests can enjoy both a lunch and an evening tasting menu, perfectly paired with an exquisite selection of wines.

About the Role

Your Roles:

- To run the business with the passion as though it was your own business

- being a face of the restaurant and rooms, leading from the front

- Budgeting and forecasting

- Controlling costs & driving sales growth

- Help establish, develop and execute sales plan

- Responsibility for reporting P&L

- Ensuring consistently excellent customer service is delivered.

- Managing service standards and staff development.

- hotel management

The person we are looking for:

- Experience in a similar role.

- A strong commercial awareness

- Knowledge of drinks; including wine, spirits, cocktails

- WSET level 2

- Knowledge of food; including allergens, food safety

- Great leadership skills and enjoy working as part of a team in a social environment.

- The ability to communicate at all levels

Further Notes:

This role requires initiative, commitment, hard work and general all-round brilliance. It is an unparalleled opportunity to join Haar at an exciting time and make the contribution we are looking for. Likewise, the candidate will be results-orientated with an ambitious attitude and be able to work tirelessly, speedily and efficiently to ensure results, with commercial success as the priority.

Organisation is a key part of the role and so the applicant must consider themselves to have a highly structured attitude to work with demonstrable experience of how they organise their time, workload and the tasks at hand.

Salary scale higher end includes service charge - this is due to tips policy set for company.

Think this describes you perfectly? Apply now!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 36,000.00-50,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

Bonus scheme Tips
Benefits:

Company pension Discounted or free food Employee discount
Schedule:

Every weekend Weekend availability
Experience:

fine dining: 1 year (preferred) restaurant manager: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: GMSTA