Beverage Manager

Beverage Manager

The Beverage Manager is responsible for the oversight, execution, and continued elevation of The Dewberry beverage program across Food and Beverage outlets. This role supports daily beverage operations, bar leadership, beverage service execution, training, inventory controls, sanitation, menu development, and guest experience while maintaining Forbes-level hospitality across all outlets.

The ideal candidate is a proven hospitality professional with strong leadership experience in luxury hotels, upscale restaurants, refined cocktail programs, wine programs, or high-volume bar environments. This individual must demonstrate professionalism, accountability, strong beverage knowledge, financial awareness, and a clear understanding of luxury service standards, responsible alcohol service, bar operations, team leadership, and beverage program management.

Key responsibilities include leading the overall beverage program, maintaining high standards for product quality and presentation, identifying and leveraging opportunities to promote beverage offerings, ensuring the profitability of the beverage department, implementing a robust training program for all bar staff, providing ongoing coaching to bar staff, recruiting and hiring bar staff, partnering with F&B leadership to support staffing needs, supporting Lead Servers and F&B leadership with the beverage portion of service training, maintaining approved beverage recipes, ensuring all new menu items, recipes, cocktail changes, wine updates, spirit placements, and beverage offerings are reviewed, approved, trained, and executed consistently, ensuring monthly beverage inventory is completed accurately, ensuring liquor requisitions, bar documents, prep sheets, opening duties, closing duties, and nightly communication are completed accurately and consistently, holding Bar Leads accountable for bar readiness, prep standards, cleaning standards, weekly deep cleaning, sanitation, and proper closing communication, ensuring all batched cocktails, juices, syrups, garnishes, and prep items are properly labeled, dated, stored, rotated, and discarded according to company and DHEC standards, completing routine checks of refrigeration, glasswashers, ice wells, drains, draft systems, bar tools, smallware's, sanitation supplies, and all DHEC-related standards, reporting maintenance, sanitation, equipment, or compliance concerns immediately and following up until resolved, serving as the primary communication link between F&B leadership, Bar Leads, and the bar team, escalating team, guest, service, safety, compliance, or operational concerns to F&B leadership when necessary, supporting responsible alcohol service standards, ensuring responsible and accurate handling of cash banks, Point-of-Sale entries, guest charges, and company money-handling policies, holding themselves and all Bar Leads to the highest standards of professionalism, accountability, punctuality, uniform appearance, product knowledge, communication, and service leadership, leading by example and supporting a positive, accountable, team-focused bar culture.

Qualifications include a high school diploma/GED required, minimum of five years of experience in a full-service restaurant, cocktail lounge, luxury hotel, or high-volume bar environment, minimum of two years of beverage leadership, bar leadership, supervisory, or management experience preferred, prior bartending experience required, WSET Level 2 Award in Wines or Court of Master Sommeliers Certified Sommelier certification required, strong knowledge of wine, spirits, classic cocktails, beer, zero-proof beverages, beverage costing, and responsible alcohol service, ability to train, coach, support, and hold Bar Leads and bar team members accountable, current legal and unrestricted ability to work in the United States, excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong organization, follow-through, and leadership presence required, consistent punctuality and reliable attendance required, ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time, ability to bend, squat, and stretch, ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.

Benefits of joining The Dewberry team include 401K with Company Match (4%)*, education reimbursement*, paid maternity leave*, complimentary downtown parking, complimentary dry cleaning, complimentary daily lunch buffet, best-in-class health & supplemental insurance*, optional supplemental coverages*, financial advising with Roadside Capital, competitive pay, advancement & growth opportunities, full-time and part-time positions, flexible paid time off. *Indicates eligibility requirement.

We are a tight-knit group of passionate individuals who are unrelenting when it comes to offering a flawless experience at The Dewberry while maintaining our unique brand standards. Every Teammate plays a key role in contributing to the success of the whole hotel.

The Dewberry is located in the heart of downtown Charleston, bordering Marion Square, just steps from the shopping and dining on King Street, Museum Mile and The Gaillard Center. Offering 153 thoughtfully appointed rooms, world-class service and unparalleled views, The Dewberry occupies the former L. Mendel Rivers (circa 1964) federal building and pays homage to Charleston's century architectural splendor. The hotel is the result of owner John Dewberry's vision of "Southern ReimaginedTM," which he developed over the course of an eight-year renovation and preservation of the building.

The Dewberry features several event spaces along with the nationally celebrated cocktail program at the brass bar in The Living Room, the whimsical cocktail lounge Citrus Club, treatments at our urban oasis, The Spa, as well as the curated boutique The Shop.

Recognized globally for its excellence, The Dewberry is known among teammates, guests, and the community as a leader in the field of hospitality. As a brand, The Dewberry teammates, experience, and brand are authentic, humble, and innovative operators driven to anticipate needs and exceed expectations.