BAR MANAGER
About The Position
The SFO Bar Manager provides planning and direction for a dedicated hub of clubs and lounges, with responsibility for achieving operational goals, maintaining strong client relationships, meeting safety and sanitation standards, ensuring program compliance, and training bartending staff to deliver an elevated standard of service. The role oversees day-to-day bar operations across SFO locations and supports new openings, bar technologies, beverage activations, and operational improvements. The manager works with the Beverage Operations Manager and training coordinators to address performance gaps, implement standard operating procedures, and maintain consistent recipe adherence and portion controls. The role also includes project-management duties, including defining scope and objectives, planning resources and budgets, managing schedules and vendors, communicating progress to stakeholders, and measuring project performance.
Requirements
- Minimum 3–5 years of bartending experience.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 1–3 years of food and beverage operations experience at a supervisor level.
- Ability to coach and guide bartenders and management staff.
- Quality-driven, with a passion for excellence in guest service and satisfaction.
- Client-focused and proactive, with a mindset for continuous improvement.
- Rigorous attention to detail and ability to execute multiple workstreams within the same timeframe.
- Ambitious approach to providing high-quality food and beverage operations to external customers.
- Ability to use hands, handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Must be able to perform essential job functions satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day bar operations at all SFO locations on site.
- Support the corporate team with new openings in the assigned hub.
- Support new and existing bar technologies.
- Promote safe and responsible service among team members.
- Implement practices that support safety and sanitation goals.
- Use available tools to achieve budgetary, quality-control, service-standard, and financial goals for each location.
- Maintain on-site program compliance, including back bar displays and well liquor, beer, and wine selections, and assist with implementing activations.
- Ensure recipe adherence and portion-control standards across the portfolio.
- Develop a training plan to implement standard operating procedures with support from training coordinators.
- Work with the Beverage Operations Manager to identify unit-level performance gaps and processes to address them.
- Monitor, track, and audit compliance with comp policy and premium sales.
- Define project scope and objectives.
- Forecast and manage the resources needed to meet project objectives efficiently.
- Prepare project budgets based on scope and resource requirements.
- Develop and manage detailed project schedules and work plans.
- Provide stakeholders with consistent updates on project strategy, adjustments, and progress.
- Manage vendor and supplier contracts and relationships, assign tasks, and communicate expected deliverables.
- Measure project performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Coach and guide bartenders and management staff.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance and AD
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Holiday time off (varies by site/state)
- Associate Shopping Program
- Health and Wellness Programs
- Discount Marketplace
- Identity Theft Protection
- Pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Paid parental leave
- Personal leave
- Other paid and/or unpaid time off benefits may be available under applicable law
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
