Food and Beverage Manager - The Lakes Rookley

Job Posted: 15 May 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Rookley, Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Full time
• Salary: £33,000
• Industries: Catering, Hospitality & Bar

Food and Beverage Manager

Location: The Lakes Rookley, Isle of Wight

Hours of work: 40 hours a week - weekend & evenings required? 

Salary: £33,000 per year

What we need, in a nutshell  

We’re looking for a dynamic Food & Beverage Manager who’s ready to dive into every aspect of our bars, restaurant, and events operation, bringing hands-on leadership and a passion for service excellence.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be a driving force on our park management team, working alongside staff to create memorable guest experiences while strategically steering our F&B operations towards sustainable, profitable growth.

With a balance of daily engagement and forward-thinking, you’ll build and empower customer-facing teams to deliver outstanding service across all interactions 

Who are we? 

Our holidays are amazing and it's our people who bring everything to life. We pull out all the stops, add the bells and whistles and put our hearts and souls into it, so that our guests can enjoy the greatest of Great British holidays. At Away Resorts, we like to have fun and we're not apologising for it. If you do too, and you would also like to be part of an award winning, entrepreneurial company with big plans - we need to talk. 

Find out more about our holiday experience on our website: http://www.awayresorts.co.uk. 

What you’ll be doing 

We are looking for a high calibre Food & Beverage Manager to take the reign of our food & beverage operations and can create an environment where a team thrive and our guests can sit back and take away memories that will last a lifetime; whilst still having an analytical mind that can process KPI's and drive the right behaviour though standards and leading the way, so you will need to: 

• Manage, lead, train and motivate a team to deliver delight. 

• Oversee the smooth running of our food & beverage operations, ensure the preparation for service, as well as overseeing service and ensuring the after-service duties are appropriately carried out and managed.  

• Maximise sales whilst driving profitable growth with care and flair. 

• Lead and manage all aspects of stock control, implementing company policies to ensure efficient ordering, accurate deliveries, and thorough stock-taking practices. Ensure all team members follow specified standards for food and drink service to maintain consistency and achieve theoretical stock targets. 

• Deliver KPIs and annual profit targets in our food & beverage operations through smart budget planning, an eye for commercial opportunities and leadership skills that motivate your teams to deliver. 

• Take full ownership of all food & beverage elements for events, working closely with the events team to ensure every menu is costed accurately and aligns with our standards. Oversee on-the-day execution to deliver a seamless and memorable guest experience. 

• Support the delivery of our outstanding guest experience by providing strong leadership and motivation to permanent and seasonal team. 

• Be responsible for health and safety, ensuring the business meets its statutory obligations and that all team members receive relevant training. 

Skills, experience and qualities you’ll need 

We are looking for a high calibre Food & Beverage Manager, so you will need: 

• To be commercially focused with experience of delivering both short- and long-term profits – with the customer experience remaining central 

• A proven track record in managing, leading and developing teams within the hospitality sector 

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal 

• The ability to work under pressure and solve problems 

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to engage colleagues so that new strategies are successfully implemented 

• To be hands-on, self-motivated and ambitious, as well as having a large helping of common sense and a sense of humour. 

It’s the icing on the cake if you are an experienced Food & Beverage Manager with previous Holiday Park experience. 

It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun-loving, people-centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers - have a read about it on?our website and decide if it describes you. 

What we can offer you 

• Competitive Pension 

• Bonus Scheme 

• Life Insurance 

• Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays 

• On Park Discounts 

• Awards and recognition 

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply 

Just click on the Apply Now button and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts check us out at?www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers. 

Our Promise to You 

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all! 

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination and we’ll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. Afterall, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work! 

Good Luck!