Wed, 01 Oct 2025">published - Wed, 01 Oct 2025
Job Description
Battersea Arts Centre is seeking a bold and entrepreneurial Bar & Cafe Manager to drive forward our commercial hospitality offer, overseeing Tom's Caf, our lively performance bars, large-scale, high-end event bar operations and our growing hires catering venture. This is a hands-on management role for someone who thrives on developing ideas into profitable ventures and balancing creativity with sharp commercial thinking. At BAC, our values are rooted in inclusivity, innovation and care for people and place, and this role will embody those principles by ensuring our bars and caf are welcoming to all, sustainable in practice, and consistently delivered to the highest standard. You'll be empowered to shape strategy, grow income, and elevate service, building a distinctive hospitality offer that matches the ambition and energy of our landmark cultural venue.
Job Requirements
* Understanding of food and beverage operations in a live performance, events and/or cultural venue.
* Understanding of food and beverage compliance including but not limited to licensing law, food safety and COSHH.
* Significant experience managing a team in a bar/cafe/F&B focussed role, ideally in busy and varied venue/events.
* Experience line managing a mix of permanent and casual staff members.
* Experience working in an arts/theatre/cultural venue.
* Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
* Strong communication skills and the ability to negotiate clearly and effectively.
* Ability to assess current trends in the food & beverage sector and apply this to offers, menus and events.
Job Responsibilities
* Lead the operational delivery of all food and beverage services across Battersea Arts Centre.
* Deliver on income targets by maintaining a dynamic menu offer and implementing clear upselling techniques.
* Monitor and optimise cost of sale ensuring dynamic use of staffing resource so all business needs are met in an efficient manner.
* Manage and maintain physical spaces including Tom's Cafe, the Grand Hall bar, storage spaces, event kitchens ensuring all are presentable, compliant and comfortable for use.
* Effectively deliver monthly stock reports ensuring the stock management process is thorough and detailed including stock rotation, pricing and waste management.
* Take ownership of Tom's Cafe as an event space, managing all enquiries from initial contact to event delivery.
* The role requires regular operational work supervising the bar & cafe space, managing events and practical support with cleaning/operations tasks.
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