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San Carlo Birmingham are hiring an General Manager!
Our story
The Distefano family, spanning two generations, started San Carlo over 30 years ago and seen it grow to twenty-five authentic Italian restaurants across the UK – from Covent Garden, Piccadilly and Knightsbridge in London to Bristol, Leicester, Liverpool, Leeds, Cheshire and Manchester and with a growing number overseas – including Kuwait, Bangkok and Qatar and with new sites set to open in Bahrain, Dubai.
Colleague Benefits:
- You will be joining, one of the world’s leading family-owned companies - which means global opportunitiesÂ
- Delicious, healthy Meals whilst on duty – all free
- 30% discount in our restaurants, for you and your friends & family
- Gym discount scheme
- Squadra – our very own people platform offering you free discounts and rewards at thousands of companies worldwide from groceries to holidays.
- Support in training and continuing Professional development
- Online development training with our San Carlo App ‘lacademia’
- Wagestream – giving you flexibility to access, track, build and better manage your pay.
- Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with a 24/7 helpline for you and your family.
- Free confidential counselling sessions to help with you and your families wellbeing
- Free online health portal – giving you resources at your fingertips to help you reach your goals.
- Access to Hapi-life – a platform to help you live your life healthier covering Mental, Financial, Social & Physical wellbeing.
- Bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme and earn up to £1000 per person!
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the increase in revenue and profitability within your restaurant.
- Ensure Manager Controller Profit is in line with the company financial targets.
- Ensure stocks and wastage are monitored, accounted for and kept within an acceptable level.
- Accountable and responsible for accurate delivery of new inventory, with timely invoice processing within the company required timeframe.
- Accountable and responsible for high customer feedback scores on all platforms
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of your restaurant locations, ensuring a good working relationship with front of house and back of house team members. Also including managing staff and corrective actions as necessary with support from the head office HR team.
- Managing team rotas, holidays and absences.
- Ensure compliance with internal company policies and industry regulations.
- Accountable for cash handling and governance of closing down procedures.
- Hire new team members through our company Applicant Tracking System and other approved methods of recruitment.
- Train, develop and manage team to company standards in all aspects of their roles, maintaining high levels of customer service and employee engagement.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- 5 year’s experience in a similar role
- Team management experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail, highly organised and capable of handling multiple tasks
- A proactive self-starter who can work independently with good judgement and minimal direction
