We are recruiting a customer-focused Food and Beverage Manager to join the Marlowe Theatre team and lead the development of our food and beverage offer. This role will manage the Green Room and Kitchen teams to ensure an excellent experience for our visitors.
The Green Room is our established on-site café and restaurant. Our menu features stunning dishes prepared with ingredients sourced from across Kent, and our busy pre-show dining service ensures that our audiences can enjoy a fantastic meal with a guarantee that they will be in their seats in time for the performance. Working with the Head Chef, our Food and Beverage Manager will develop and deliver an enticing food offer to suit the variety of customers that visit the Marlowe each day. Our theatre has three on-site bars that cater for the audiences of our two auditoria, serving up to 10,000 customers a week.
Our Food and Beverage Manager will curate a beverage offer across our restaurant and bar spaces that responds to our audiences’ needs while ensuring they operate commercially to reach agreed-upon targets.
Our Food and Beverage Manager should be commercially minded and target-driven. They should thrive in a fast-paced environment and take a positive approach to problem-solving. We want to work with people who are passionate about their work, resilient in the face of challenge, and supportive of their colleagues.
About us
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury is one of the UK’s most successful large-scale regional theatres (UK Theatre of the Year in the Stage Awards 2022). Our mission is to be the engine house for the performing arts in Kent, shaping the spirit of our region.
We bring West End musicals, national companies, a symphony orchestra season and high-profile tours to Kent audiences, in a year-round programme of theatre, dance, opera, music and comedy in our 1,200-seat Main House. Next year, we begin producing large-scale plays made in Kent and touring nationally. Our 150-seat Studio is dedicated to the development of new ideas, with a mix of R&D with resident and visiting companies, sharings and presented shows, plus a home-produced family show at Christmas.
We are a Creative Green organisation and are committed to taking action on climate change and environmental sustainability.
The Marlowe Theatre is an inclusive employer. We value difference and recruit by merit based on fair and open competition.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We want to hear from all sectors, including veterans.