Bar Manager
* Location: London (Kings Cross N1C)
* Pay: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum (depending on experience)
The Role
We’re looking for an experienced Bar Manager to lead the bar team at Caravan Kings Cross, one of our largest restaurants, and home to one of a high-volume bar operation.
This is a high-profile role where you’ll set the tone for consistency, creativity, and pace, ensuring every service runs seamlessly while delivering outstanding hospitality.
As a Bar Manager at Kings Cross, you’ll lead a large team and a flagship site. You’ll balance people development with operational excellence, creating a bar operation that is fast, efficient, and consistently high-quality, all while making sure our “All Welcome” hospitality shines through every guest experience.
Flexibility is essential. You’ll be visible on the floor during evenings and weekends, driving bar standards, elevating service speed, and coaching your team to deliver the best drinks and hospitality in London.
What you’ll do:
As Bar Manager you are responsible for delivering exceptional hospitality experiences to our guests and team. To make that happen you’ll:
* Lead the Caravan Kings Cross bar operations, taking full ownership of standards, service, and performance.
* Build a consistent and elevated guest experience by embedding clear drinks specs, service standards, and ways of working.
* Act as an ambassador of bar excellence: coaching, training, and supporting a large team in a high-volume environment.
* Deliver engaging onboarding, training, and upskilling so every team member feels confident, capable, and connected to our values.
* Partner with the GM and site leaders to recruit, train and develop the bar team and rising talent, ensuring a strong team pipeline.
* Champion health & safety, cleanliness, stock control, and operational best practice across the bar.
* Monitor GP, stock, and ordering systems, ensuring efficiency and financial control.
* Support private hires and events, ensuring the bar always reflects the Caravan hospitality experience.
About You:
To succeed as a Bar Manager at Caravan Kings Cross, you will have:
* Proven success managing a high-volume, fast-paced bar in a restaurant, bar, or hospitality group.
* Experience leading, training and developing large bar teams with confidence and authority.
* Strong commercial skills, comfortable with GP, stock and rota.
* A reputation as a culture ambassador, positive, approachable, and values driven.
* Ambition to take on a flagship role that can be truly career-defining.
What We Offer
* Competitive salary
* Career progression supported by leadership training and development, including our Leadership Development Programme, Train the Trainer, and Hospitality Programme.
* Meals + drinks on shift
* 100% dining discount when visiting with family & friends
* Coffee discounts at Caravan Coffee Roasters
* Access to financial health, wellbeing, and mentoring support.
About us
At Caravan, we believe hospitality is about more than just great food and drink, it’s about people. Since 2010, we have been building award-winning restaurants and a specialty coffee roastery while investing in sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and community. We’re also proudly B Corp Certified, which means we’re committed to people and planet as much as we care about delivering genuine hospitality.
Apply Now
Caravan is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.
Apply today and take the next step in your management career as a Bar Manager at Caravan.