Food and Beverage Manager

Job number:AZA07212016ZFBM

Description

Food and Beverage Manager

Great vacations begin with great employees!

Combine your experience and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees working onboard our ships at sea. Imagine a unique and enriching opportunity to explore your true potential, to achieve success as part of a stellar team, to travel to exotic locations and provide extraordinary service in an amazingly social environment. If you have a passion for excellence, exuberant energy, and the ambition for a rewarding career, journey onboard as an Azamara Club Cruises team member. It"s the experience of a lifetime!

To support Azamara Club Cruises" mission of sustaining an upmarket cruise experience with a destination-driven brand image. All duties and responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with the AMAZE Standards; Safety is Everybody"s Business, ISM/ISO and SQM standards, USPH guidelines, and environmental regulations. This position will help to achieve this goal by overseeing all the food and beverage operations throughout the vessel.

This position will ensure the food and beverage operations are to the standard expected by Azamara Club Cruise guests along with facilitating a culture of commitment to Azamara"s AMAZE Standards.

Career snapshot:

• The Food & Beverage Manager is held accountable for entire cycle of the Food & Beverage Operations: ordering, loading, storing, preparing and final delivery. Ensures that all rules and regulations stipulated by the company are followed at all times regarding each specific step of the operation as per the SQM. Must physically sign off on each order. 
• Directs, coaches, supports, supervises and evaluates (in conjunction with the Hotel Director) the performance of all direct reports.
• Monitors at all times USPH procedures for sanitation and cleanliness and monitors workstations and staff for adherence to those procedures. Enforces and follows USPH cleaning procedures for work surfaces, all related equipment and utensils.
• Conducts spot checks and unannounced USPH type inspections as deemed necessary. Prior to arrival in U.S. ports makes a meticulous USPH type inspection to ensure a high score in the event an inspection should take place (copy of the report to be sent to operation M.F & B Operations).
• Works with department managers and staff to ensure overall communication and motivation is optimized to promote a cooperative and harmonious working climate that will be conducive to maximum employee morale, productivity, and efficiency.
• Performs related duties as required. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the shipboard employee occupying this position. Shipboard employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Operational Areas:

• Azamara Shipboard