Our Food & Beverage Director is the food & beverage expert of our hotel! Entrusted with implementation and delivery of the overall culinary and service concept of the a la carte restaurants. They ensure adherence to DC Core Standards and required Health and Food Safety standards and responsible for the planning, organizing and giving direction to the staff. The also conduct interviews, hire/train employees; plan, assign and address concerns. Advocates and enables the F&B GRC structure, creativity, bespoke recognition and utilization of NEXUS. They continually evaluate organizational structure to ensure team is deployed based on strengths. Though skillfully trained, they never lose sight of their ultimate reasonability, to create lifelong memories for our guests.

Annual Salary Range based on experience: $170,000 - $185,000

Executive Incentive Plan - up to 40 % of Base Salary

Our success is a result of our employees. We believe that everyone apart of our team should share the rewards. For this position this will mean the following benefit package.

•Medical/Dental/Vison Benefits
•Pension/401k Plan
•Sick Time
•Paid Time Off
•Unpaid Time Off
•Free Meals on Duty
•Uniform provided with complimentary laundry included
•World class development opportunities (Service Excellence Training, Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging Trainings, Monthly Lunch & Learns)
•Social events throughout the year, including Employee Appreciation Day events, Quarterly Employee Awards, Annual End of Year Gala
•Hotel Benefits
o Complimentary stays with breakfast included in all 9 Dorchester Collection hotels – stay once a year at each hotel!
o 50% off at restaurants within all of our Dorchester Collection hotels

EOE: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status. We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.
ADA: The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
A day in the life of our Food & Beverage Director … it demands high levels of energy in order to keep up. They need consistency even though the days are never alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Listing all of the tasks that our Food & Beverage Director accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know.
• Our Food & Beverage Director is responsible for directing and overseeing all aspects of the organization's food and beverage planning and service, with duties to include menu planning and costs, preparation and presentation of food and drinks, and adherence to quality and safety standards. They plan, coordinate, and oversee special events. The Food & Beverage Director typically manages through their leadership team in larger groups of moderate complexity. They are capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments during their day. They also enhance and elevate NEXUS utilization from quality and quantity of information. Our Food & Beverage Director will evaluate the organizational chart to foster and support an environment of research, creativity, bespoke recognition and curiosity. The will continually evolve and adapt based on changing guest/business requirements. The will manage all month end financial requirements such as trial balance, accruals, check book maintenance and P&L variance critiques. They attend all labor and revenue meetings. They will adopt a strength based deployment approach to leverage natural team talents. Follow through on all guest comments, complaints and other forms of communication. They will evaluate Medallia, guest interview points as well as any other customer communication channels to create action plans and other required follow ups. They will develop and implement viable marketing strategies and programs for increased sales of F & B, in partnership with Sales and Marketing. In addition, Food & Beverage Director will work hands-on with the culinary and stewarding teams while communicating requests and concerns to drive problem solving and resolution.
• Sometimes our guests have special requests involving personal preferences, dietary needs and even special occasions. This will include recognizing all in-House and VIP guests, building and strengthening relationships with our guests, upselling wine and wine knowledge, assigning shift teams, side work, and stations all to ensure our guests receives nothing but the best experience. Most of these requests are fulfilled by our Food & Beverage Director.
• Our hotels are truly luxury hotels. This requires preventing and correcting the imperfections and blemishes that tend to come up. Our Food & Beverage Director are relied upon to report these and work with several other positions to correct.
• Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Food & Beverage Director must communicate with other department

 All of our employees are ambassadors of our Vision, Values and culture. Our Hotel Managers do this with all they do and they successfully communicate to the team our strategy through Vision and Purpose
 English is the primary language used in our hotel. Our Dir of Food & Beverage must feel comfortable communicating in this language, along with public speaking.
 Attention to detail is critical for this role.
 We pride in nurturing an environment where Working Together is a must. Our Hotel Managers are our biggest champions of this.
 Our hotels operate nonstop, this requires flexibility from everyone on the team.
 Senior Leadership in Food & Beverage experience with a luxury brand – heavy operational experience.
 Our Director of Food & Beverage has the ability to lead, motivate, influence and support cross functional teams across all levels of the organization in the hotel and Dorchester Collection.