We have an exciting opportunity available for a Food & Beverage Operations Manager to join our team working on a full time, permanent basis, 37.5 hours per week. In return we will offer you a competitive salary, a place to develop your skills as part of the Support Centre team in a thriving company and the chance to work in some of the UK’s most stunning forest environments.

If you are truly passionate about creating wonderful guest experiences, love the outdoors, and want a genuinely different career, you have come to the right place. At Forest Holidays, our purpose is to create authentic experiences in Britain’s amazing forests, connecting people, nature, and local communities.

The Food & Beverage Operations Manager Role:

This is an F&B standards driven role, you will take the lead in defining our food serice standards across the estate, analysing sevice and quality data and compiling detailed action plans for review. Your role will play a key part in maintaining food safety compliance and external auditor communications.

This role is critical to the newly structured commercial operations team and will be instrumental in the delivery of the Wholesome food project. Primarily responsibile for the delivery and installation of food and service standards across the estate. This role will require travel to locations around the UK, and therefore a company car is available as part of the package. You will be completing spot audits and scoring accordingly. You will be key in driving the companies overall Net Promoter Score via our food quality scores.

You will motivate and inspire others in delivering our F&B strategy, supporting our aim to reduce team turnover by ensuring that we have inspiring training and development programmes across all levels, including inductions. As we have extensive growth plans you will play a key part in supporting new openings across the estate as well as CAPEX projects on existing locations.

As our Food & Beverage Operations Manager we can offer you:

• 15% annual bonus available on personal/company performance
• Get paid early with Access Early Pay - a great help for covering the unexpected
• Save on cabin breaks - pre-book a break with up to 20% off or travel last minute for just £50 a cabin. You also get a friends and family discount giving them 15% off all breaks
• Enjoy subsidised meals with our team menu at the Forest Retreat
• Plan for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll pay a 5% contribution
• Save on shopping bills with discounts from hundreds of brands with the Hapi app
• Lifetime membership of the Retail Trust for you and your family.

Our ideal Food & Beverage Operations Manager:

Ideally you will have at least Level 3 Food safety as well as a full UK driving licence. Catering qualifications are desirable but not essential.

You will have 2-3 years Management experience of a substantial F&B operation and ideally have multi-site experience working within a F&B training development role. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will have commercial awareness and ability to work on own iniatitive prioritising and managing multiple priorities.

At Forest Holidays, our purpose is to help people experience and reconnect with forests, each other and rural communities. Because these connections are good for people and good for nature.

We’re privileged to be situated in beautiful corners of the UK’s forests and employ over 700 local team members in full and part time positions. Our promise, hand in hand with our local partners, Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland and Natural Resources Wales is to help the forests thrive, so that they are better than ever for future generations.

We have 11 locations across the UK and we’re growing. We opened our most recent location at Garnant, Wales in February 2023 and are due to open a new location in Glentress, Scotland in 2024. Forest Holidays is a thriving company, whether you want to grow your experience, nurture meaningful connections or allow your wildest aspirations to bloom, here you’ll find jobs where you really CAN see the wood for the trees.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our fantastic team! Click ‘Apply’ now!