Back of House Manager

We are looking for a Back of House Manager to join us at Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!

At Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa we want to deliver a ridiculously personal service to all our guests, whether they are relaxing in our Spa or enjoying sustainably sourced Scottish seafood in our iasg restaurant. As Glasgow’s only 5* Hotel, our team are focussed on providing our guests with 5* service and making heartfelt human connections in our boutique hotel, standing strong in Glasgow’s city centre. 

As a Back of House Manager, we will support you to: 

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

Our Back of House Manager supports our Head Chef with the effective and efficient running of the Hotel’s kitchen and back of house teams, being responsible for managing the accurate ordering, receiving, and distribution of all food and beverage stock, while ensuring adherence to food safety and HACCP standards. 

In addition to this, this role will oversee and train our Kitchen Porters to maintain high performance and compliance with hotel policies, providing direct coaching and support as needed. You will collaborate with other departments such as F&B to ensure consistent improvement on processes and step in to support the kitchen team when required. You will also be responsible for managing stock control processes and ensure effective use of point-of-sale equipment. So, we are looking for someone who has…

• Availability to work 40 hours per week across Monday to Friday (typically 7am to 4pm)
• Proven track record of managing a back-of house team or similar, with knowledge of various market trends and service styles (such as catering, events, restaurants, and bars)
• A qualification or degree in catering or similar would be desired but not essential 
• Obtained your Level 2 Food Safety certification, with knowledge of HACCP (familiarity with health, hygiene practices and waste disposal is also required for this role) 
• Experience using Point of Sale equipment would be beneficial 
• Passionate about leading others by example, experience in coaching or training team members
• Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

Joining the Kimpton family isn’t just about providing our guests with excellent service, we also have secured a spot in Fortune’s ‘100 best companies to work for’ 7 times since 2009, and it is no surprises why! We can offer you…

• Financial security - £28,665.00 per annum, guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! 
• Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Colleague perks  - worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6,000 hotels and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal. 
• Wellbeing – generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders 
• Hotel specific benefits – Generous discounts in our newly renovated Spa and our F&B outlets (*must be booked according to processes)!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @kimptonblythswoodsquare to see more. 

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.