{"id":102152,"date":"2026-07-17T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/food-beverage-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:43:23","slug":"food-beverage-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/nairobi\/food-beverage-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Food &#038; Beverage Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Food & Beverage Manager\", \"description\": \"Job Purpose\\nTo provide strategic leadership and management of all food and beverage operations by ensuring exceptional service delivery, operational efficiency, revenue growth, quality standards, and customer satisfaction while maximizing departmental profitability.\\nKey Duties and Responsibilities\\nPlan, coordinate, and oversee all restaurant operations to ensure efficient service delivery and an exceptional guest dining experience.\\nManage bar operations by ensuring effective beverage service, stock control, compliance with licensing requirements, and profitability.\\nCoordinate banquet, conference, and event food and beverage services to ensure seamless execution and customer satisfaction.\\nDevelop, implement, and monitor food and beverage service standards to maintain consistency and operational excellence.\\nMonitor beverage purchasing, inventory, costing, and stock controls to minimize losses and maximize profitability.\\nCoordinate the training, coaching, and performance management of food and beverage staff to enhance service quality and productivity.\\nDevelop and implement promotional campaigns and sales initiatives to increase food and beverage revenue.\\nResolve guest complaints and service issues promptly while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and service recovery.\\nMonitor departmental revenue, costs, and budgets, and implement strategies to achieve revenue and profitability targets.\\nEnsure compliance with food safety, hygiene, quality assurance, and statutory requirements across all food and beverage operations.\\nPerform menu engineering in collaboration with the Executive Chef to optimize pricing, profitability, and customer preferences.\\nPerform any other duties as may be assigned by the General Manager from time to time.\\nKey Performance Indicators KPIs\\nAchievement of restaurant and food & beverage revenue targets.\\nBeverage cost maintained within approved targets.\\nGuest satisfaction ratings for food and beverage services.\\nUpselling and average spend per guest achieved against set targets.\\nTable turnover rate achieved in accordance with operational targets.\\nFood cost maintained within approved budget.\\nEducation, Skills and Experience\\nMust have:\\nBachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management, Hotel Management, Food & Beverage Management, Tourism Management, or a related field from a recognized institution. A Diploma in Hospitality Management or a related field with extensive relevant experience may be considered.\\nMinimum of Seven 7 years' relevant experience in food and beverage operations.\\nStrong knowledge of restaurant and bar operations, banquet management, customer service, food safety, inventory control, budgeting, menu engineering, leadership, communication, problem-solving, and proficiency in point-of-sale POS systems and Microsoft Office applications.\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-07-17\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Beachfront Vipingo\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Nairobi\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-07-25T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Beachfront Vipingo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-07-25<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>Job Purpose<br \/>To provide strategic leadership and management of all food and beverage operations by ensuring exceptional service delivery, operational efficiency, revenue growth, quality standards, and customer satisfaction while maximizing departmental profitability.<br \/>Key Duties and Responsibilities<br \/>Plan, coordinate, and oversee all restaurant operations to ensure efficient service delivery and an exceptional guest dining experience.<br \/>Manage bar operations by ensuring effective beverage service, stock control, compliance with licensing requirements, and profitability.<br \/>Coordinate banquet, conference, and event food and beverage services to ensure seamless execution and customer satisfaction.<br \/>Develop, implement, and monitor food and beverage service standards to maintain consistency and operational excellence.<br \/>Monitor beverage purchasing, inventory, costing, and stock controls to minimize losses and maximize profitability.<br \/>Coordinate the training, coaching, and performance management of food and beverage staff to enhance service quality and productivity.<br \/>Develop and implement promotional campaigns and sales initiatives to increase food and beverage revenue.<br \/>Resolve guest complaints and service issues promptly while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and service recovery.<br \/>Monitor departmental revenue, costs, and budgets, and implement strategies to achieve revenue and profitability targets.<br \/>Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, quality assurance, and statutory requirements across all food and beverage operations.<br \/>Perform menu engineering in collaboration with the Executive Chef to optimize pricing, profitability, and customer preferences.<br \/>Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the General Manager from time to time.<br \/>Key Performance Indicators KPIs<br \/>Achievement of restaurant and food &#038; beverage revenue targets.<br \/>Beverage cost maintained within approved targets.<br \/>Guest satisfaction ratings for food and beverage services.<br \/>Upselling and average spend per guest achieved against set targets.<br \/>Table turnover rate achieved in accordance with operational targets.<br \/>Food cost maintained within approved budget.<br \/>Education, Skills and Experience<br \/>Must have:<br \/>Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in Hospitality Management, Hotel Management, Food &#038; Beverage Management, Tourism Management, or a related field from a recognized institution. A Diploma in Hospitality Management or a related field with extensive relevant experience may be considered.<br \/>Minimum of Seven 7 years&#8217; relevant experience in food and beverage operations.<br \/>Strong knowledge of restaurant and bar operations, banquet management, customer service, food safety, inventory control, budgeting, menu engineering, leadership, communication, problem-solving, and proficiency in point-of-sale POS systems and Microsoft Office applications.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit a signed application letter, a comprehensive and up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (CV), and certified copies of their academic and professional certificates. Kindly note: Applications should be sent via email to: hr@beachfrontvipingo.com Clearly indicate the position applied for in the email subject line. Application Deadline: 25th July 2026 Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/job\/food-beverage-manager-beachfront-vipingo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-07-25 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Beachfront Vipingo Location: Nairobi Job Type: Full Time Apply Before: 2026-07-25 Job Description Job PurposeTo provide strategic leadership and management of all food and beverage operations by ensuring exceptional service delivery, operational efficiency, revenue growth, quality standards, and customer satisfaction while maximizing departmental profitability.Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesPlan, coordinate, and oversee all restaurant operations to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408,1409],"tags":[2228,1425,1413,1412],"class_list":["post-102152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-nairobi","tag-beachfront-vipingo","tag-full-time","tag-job-listing","tag-myjobmag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}