Service Inspired Restaurants (SIR Corp.)
Location
Burlington, ON | Canada
Job description
Title: Sr. Beverage Manager
Department: Marketing
Location: Support Centre, Burlington, Ontario
At Service Inspired Restaurants we take great pride in our diverse portfolio of restaurants and believe a brave, bold and results-driven culture inspires and creates new opportunities for everyone. Our values and promises are not simply a dream, vision, or mission, but a way of life for every person that becomes or wants to become a member of our team. Our goal is to be the first choice of our guests, team members, supplier partners, communities and investors by living our values and promises in everything we do. These values and promises describe how we conduct business, achieve our goal, and live our passion. We offer opportunities at the corporate level, as well as across all our concepts, including: Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill®, SCADDABUSH Italian Kitchen & Bar®; Reds® Wine Tavern, The Loose Moose® and The Antler Room, Duke's Refresher® + Bar and Abbey’s Bake House in Muskoka. So what are you waiting for … come learn more and see if you have what it takes to join our team!
Duties and Responsibilities
- Drive beverage efforts by Brand Concept working collaboratively with Concept Leader, Operations and Marketing
- Organize and conduct business reviews / ideation sessions with beverage vendor base
- Effectively communicate new programs to marketing, culinary and operations teams
- Manage potential new local vendor partnerships to ensure optimum relationships exist to support innovation, supply, pricing and programs in accordance with company objectives
- Identify, compile, and analyze insights and pricing from competitive beverage programs quarterly
- Access new beverage offerings and product proposals from vendor partners and present insights back to team
- Inputting new and editing current recipes
- Communicate new and obsolete ingredients to Purchasing, IT and Operations
- Facilitate beverage activation process including system updates, pricing and recipe adherence across all SIR concepts
- Drive training and develop education programs for operations teams
- Assist with training and development of Bar Managers
- Assist and execute new in restaurant activations across multiple SIR concepts
- Provide and update bar bibles for all locations
- Ability to strategically work with multiple support departments
- Beverage Cost Key Accountabilities:
- Overall manage and drive beverage cost of goods to achieve business targets across all brands
- Consult on beverage- related pricing decisions with Marketing and Operations
- Monitor locations with inventory or waste issues and follow up with Operations to ensure issues are addressed
- Optimize menu items to meet beverage cost goals while meeting the quality standard of the organization
- Troubleshoot beverage cost issues with Operations Managers and help develop solutions
Requirements:
- Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in comparable industry
- University degree in Business Administration or other related field preferred
- Strong computer skills and knowledge of MS Office suite (Excel and Powerpoint in particular)
- Strong knowledge and experience in restaurant operations is preferred
- Strong knowledge of industry trends and beverage innovation
- Comfortable working in a fast paced and deadlines oriented environment
- Excellent negotiation and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills with strong attention to detail
- Maintain the ability to prioritize, multi-task, and self-motivate
- Commitment, teamwork and winning mindset – strong collaborative capabilities
- Strategic thinker, successful in developing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives
- Must be willing to travel to restaurants up to 25% of the time
- Possess five values that define our people:
- Hospitality. Enhancing the dignity, comfort and well-being of Our People
- Authenticity. Being forthright, truthful and transparent with Our People
- Quality. Working to always improve the experience of Our People
- Fun. Bringing the spirit of laughter, celebration, sharing and joy to Our People
- Courage. Acting with conviction in the balanced interest of Our People
Service Inspired Restaurants® is committed to fair and equitable recruiting practices in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA). Persons with disabilities are encouraged to come forward at any stage of the recruitment process to request accommodations, if needed. Members of our team will consult and create processes that provide individuals with disabilities the best possible recruitment experience.
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