Deputy General Manager

Deputy General Manager

Southbank, London SE1

Salary: £39,000 to £40,000 per annum + benefits and bonus.

Our client is a successful restaurant group that is looking for an experienced Deputy General Manager for their most successful site in Southbank. You must have experience of managing a high turnover, full-service restaurant and managing a large team as this site has a team of around 40 part time and full-time staff. You will be working alongside the General Manager together with a Restaurant Manager to ensure the site continues to provide the excellent front of house service that is has a reputation for, whilst also overseeing food quality, managing financials and costing, keeping on top of stock ordering and observing health and safety.

Responsibilities for Deputy General Manager:

• Managing customer relations, ensuring they exceed customer expectations.

• Assisting with recruitment, training and mentoring of staff.

• Organising staff rota according to needs of the business.

• Ordering stock and managing supplier relationships.

• Ensuring budgets and maintained and results achieved.

• Delivering team objectives and motivating the team to achieve them.

• Delegating responsibilities effectively.

• Establishing great positive working environment.

• Solving problems before they occur and quick thinking.

This role requires the individual to work a 48-hour week.

Skills Required for Deputy General Manager:

• Previous experience working as a Deputy General Manager within a high-volume, high-street restaurant chain.

• Good team management experience.

• An excellent history of exceeding customer service expectations.

• Working as a team and on own initiative, being proactive.