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About the Role
This role leads the execution and coordination of enterprise-wide food & beverage initiatives, ensuring projects, openings, and brand rollouts are delivered on time and on brand. It also drives research and development, staying ahead of industry trends to enhance concepts and maintain competitiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead and drive major cross-functional food & beverage initiatives from planning through execution.
- Establish and maintain accountability across all project stakeholders.
- Ensure timelines, deliverables, and milestones are met with consistency and discipline.
- Identify risks, remove obstacles, and maintain project momentum across all initiatives.
- Oversee execution of beverage program launches, menu rollouts, POS/KDS/BOSS integrations, brand standard initiatives, and training execution frameworks.
- Own F&B development execution for new property openings.
- Ensure all F&B operational components are aligned and on schedule.
- Oversee opening readiness, operational checklists, training coordination, and systems readiness.
- Deliver consistent, high-quality openings with reduced operational risk and stronger day-one performance.
- Lead coordination across key departments including Procurement, IT, Marketing, Human Resources, Design & Construction, Training, Finance & Legal, Compliance & Security, Entertainment, Gaming, and New technology.
- Align all teams around shared timelines, deliverables, and operational goals.
- Serve as the central connector ensuring communication, clarity, and execution consistency.
- Ensure brand standards scale effectively with organizational growth.
- Oversee the rollout and sustainability of F&B standards, tools, and processes.
- Drive consistency across properties to strengthen brand integrity and guest experience.
- Ensure all initiatives are operationally executable at the property level.
- Reduce executive dependency by owning project execution and follow-through.
- Support development of operational leaders by reinforcing accountability and execution standards.
- Contribute to strengthening the leadership pipeline and organizational depth.
- Improve speed to operational readiness and reduce launch inefficiencies.
- Drive improved labor efficiency through better planning and coordination.
- Support revenue optimization during openings and initiative rollouts.
- Contribute to enhanced guest experience and satisfaction.
- Drives research and development initiatives, to enhance new and existing food and beverage operations.
- Contributes to the creation of service initiatives, including but not limited to beverage menus, libations, wine, table side service, sequence of service, limited time offers.
- Partnering with our culinary team to engineer menus and elevate the guest journey into a seamless, memorable experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in food & beverage operations, project management, or hospitality development.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and execute complex projects.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time-management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Experience with new property openings, brand rollouts, or multi-unit operations preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and project tracking tools.
- Creative mindset with a passion for innovation, concept development, and trend-forward thinking.
- Strong knowledge of mixology, beverage development, and bar operations; hands-on bartending experience preferred.
Skills
- Food & Beverage Operations
- Project Management
- Hospitality Development
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Complex Project Execution
- Organizational Skills
- Planning Skills
- Time Management
- Communication Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- New Property Openings
- Brand Rollouts
- Multi-unit Operations
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Project Tracking Tools
- Innovation
- Concept Development
- Trend-forward Thinking
- Mixology
- Beverage Development
- Bar Operations
- Bartending
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Health and well-being support
- Future planning support
- Work-life balance support
About the Company
- Our team members are the key to our company’s success, and their health and well-being, as well as that of their families, is very important to us.