Director Food & Beverage

Director Of Food & Beverage

The Tucson Convention Center, including the Tucson Arena, Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, and Leo Rich Theater, has an opening for a skilled Director of Food & Beverage. Responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Daily management of the Food and Beverage departmental operations and personnel.
• Market food and beverage services to clients and establishes Food and Beverage controls.
• Foster and maintain positive client relations.
• Develops event work plans including scheduling and ordering and assigns appropriate duties to subordinates.
• Works with all departments to ensure quality experience.
• Reconciles accounts and generates post event reports for finance.
• Create food and beverage sales projections and budgets for facility events.
• Work in conjunction with the General Manager and Finance Department to produce accurate forecasts and other financial, inventory, sales or labor reports as required by Legends Global.
• Responsible for stand inventory and per capita reports for each event and ongoing fiscal reporting.
• Purchase and oversee distribution of all products to concessions outlets.
• Responsible for daily concession and catering food and beverage compliance and service concerns such as health department regulations, alcohol beverage service guidelines and standards, menu engineering/development and detailed costing for concessions operation.
• Hire and train new food and beverage employees; anticipate and schedule labor needs for event and non-event days.
• Controls spoilage, cost of sales.
• Work in conjunction with the General Manager to develop annual catering sales and upselling goals. Develop and oversee catering prospecting and sales initiatives to achieve set goals.
• Monitor in conjunction with the Maintenance Department all preventative and reactive maintenance programs for the Food and Beverage Department.
• Inspect and taste prepared food to maintain quality standards and sanitation regulations.
• This position will work with limited supervision and will require the ability to interact with all levels of staff, including management. Requires ability to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays, in addition to normal business hours.
• Serves as MOD (Manager on Duty) as required.
• All other duties assigned by the General Manager.

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with all Legends Global policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with energy and enthusiasm. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Certificate or degree from an accredited culinary school, college, or technical school preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in management level position in Food & Beverage or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous experience in overall Food and Beverage operations, sales, inventory control, cost control and food preparation procedures.
• Previous experience in food purchasing (Catering & Concession), including price negotiations.
• Excellent knowledge of current culinary and concession trends, presentation, and food quality.
• Previous experience in standardizing recipes, plating, and costing of menus.
• Previous experience collaborating with sub-contractor vendors.

• Serv Safe food and Serv Safe Alcohol certified.
• Maintain PCI Compliance certification.
• Alcohol awareness certificate and training capabilities.
• Strong orientation to customer service and ability to collaborate with clients and staff members.
• Results oriented individual with the ability to meet required budgetary goals.
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, planning, written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail and service oriented.
• Prior supervisory experience required.
• Computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.
• Ability to be creative with buffet presentations and maintain a quality product.

• Serv Safe certified/Food Handlers Certificate

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and 401k plan.

Location: On Site in Tucson, AZ