Director Food & Beverage

Legends Global is the premier partner to the world's greatest live events, venues, and brands. We deliver a fully integrated solution of premium services that keeps our partners front and center through our white-label approach. Our network of 450 venues worldwide, hosting 20,000 events and entertaining 165 million guests each year, is powered by our depth of expertise and level of execution across every component — feasibility & consulting, owner’s representation, sales, partnerships, hospitality, merchandise, venue management, and content & booking — of world-class live events and venues. The Legends Global culture is one of respect, ambitious thinking, collaboration, and bold action. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can be authentic, make an impact, and grow their career. Winning is an everyday thing at Legends Global. We have the best team members who understand every win is earned when we come together as one unified team. Sound like a winning formula for you? Join us!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

The Tucson Convention Center, including the Tucson Arena, Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, and Leo Rich Theater, has an opening for a skilled Director of Food & Beverage. Responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Daily management of the Food and Beverage departmental operations and personnel.
• Market food and beverage services to clients and establishes Food and Beverage controls.
• Foster and maintain positive client relations.
• Develops event work plans including scheduling and ordering and assigns appropriate duties to subordinates.
• Works with all departments to ensure quality experience.
• Reconciles accounts and generates post event reports for finance.
• Create food and beverage sales projections and budgets for facility events.
• Work in conjunction with the General Manager and Finance Department to produce accurate forecasts and other financial, inventory, sales or labor reports as required by Legends Global.
• Responsible for stand inventory and per capita reports for each event and ongoing fiscal reporting.
• Purchase and oversee distribution of all products to concessions outlets.
• Responsible for daily concession and catering food and beverage compliance and service concerns such as health department regulations, alcohol beverage service guidelines and standards, menu engineering/development and detailed costing for concessions operation.
• Hire and train new food and beverage employees; anticipate and schedule labor needs for event and non-event days.
• Controls spoilage, cost of sales.
• Work in conjunction with the General Manager to develop annual catering sales and upselling goals. Develop and oversee catering prospecting and sales initiatives to achieve set goals.
• Monitor in conjunction with the Maintenance Department all preventative and reactive maintenance programs for the Food and Beverage Department.
• Inspect and taste prepared food to maintain quality standards and sanitation regulations.
• This position will work with limited supervision and will require the ability to interact with all levels of staff, including management. Requires ability to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays, in addition to normal business hours.
• Serves as MOD (Manager on Duty) as required.
• All other duties assigned by the General Manager.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with all Legends Global policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with energy and enthusiasm. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Certificate or degree from an accredited culinary school, college, or technical school preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in management level position in Food & Beverage or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous experience in overall Food and Beverage operations, sales, inventory control, cost control and food preparation procedures.
• Previous experience in food purchasing (Catering & Concession), including price negotiations.
• Excellent knowledge of current culinary and concession trends, presentation, and food quality.
• Previous experience in standardizing recipes, plating, and costing of menus.
• Previous experience collaborating with sub-contractor vendors.

Skills and Abilities

• Serv Safe food and Serv Safe Alcohol certified.
• Maintain PCI Compliance certification.
• Alcohol awareness certificate and training capabilities.
• Strong orientation to customer service and ability to collaborate with clients and staff members.
• Results oriented individual with the ability to meet required budgetary goals.
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, planning, written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail and service oriented.
• Prior supervisory experience required.
• Computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.
• Ability to be creative with buffet presentations and maintain a quality product.

Licenses and Certifications

• Serv Safe certified/Food Handlers Certificate

COMPENSATION

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and 401k plan.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Location: On Site in Tucson, AZ

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

NOTE:

The essential responsibilities of this position are described under the headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Also, this document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

Legends Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and encourages Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities, and protected Veterans to apply. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.