Venue Manager

A full time role within a leading hotel group with 20 hotels. For an experienced Venue Manager, Hotel Manger, General Manager or Events Manager seeking to put their stamp on one of one of the South West Victoria's leading establishments.

• Requires past experince in Venue Managerment 
• Salary guide: between $100k - $120k with high expectations at the $120k mark.
• Warranambool

Your next employer has 20 venues. Half of their venues are run by a Venue Manager and the other half are run by a Managing Partner. If a Venue Manager proves themselves, the hotel group has a long history of offering partnership in the venue.

Key attractions:

• reputation and prestige of the hotel and the hotel group
• opportunities for career advancement and personal growth
• Creative control
• Competetive salary and benifits
• Desirable location

As a Venue Manager, you're in charge of overseeing the entire venue operation within the hotel. This includes managing staff, liaising with clients, planning events, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing the venue's budget. Specific responsibilities include:
Financial Performance

• the growth in revenue of the operation exclusive of price increases;
• the control of wage percentage to the targets negotiated with the Directors;-
• the control of food and beverage costs to the targets negotiated with the Directors;
• the control of controllable overheads to the targets negotiated with the Directors;
• overseeing the setting of financial targets for all subordinate managers and supervisors
• monitoring the staff turnover within each department and taking action if staff turnover becomes an issue.

Development of management systems such as the development of:

• sales control \ customer average spend\ per department
• weekly \ monthly departmental sales\labour reports
• monthly stock usage \ variance
• monthly departmental staff turnover reports;
• ensuring the adherence by subordinate staff to the following management and control systems
• Systematic recruitment processes-

Presentation and Maintenance

• ensuring all departments develop, implement and maintain proper cleaning and maintenance schedules
• ensuring that the hotel and exterior surrounds are maintained to standard specified by the Directors; 
• ensuring that minor sub-contract maintenance work is cost effective and does not interfere with the operation of the business. 

Overseeing

• ensuring that at the start of each rostered shift each department is prepared, ready and staffed appropriately;
• performing a regular circuit of operating departments during peak and service times in order to either reallocate staff when a department is struggling or provide direct assistance;
• ensuring that proper lock-up and security procedures are strictly adhered to by department Managers/Supervisors