Director Food and Beverages. (Hospitality) SN

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	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

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About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Director Food and Beverages (Hospitality) to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves overseeing all food and beverage operations across multiple hotels within the portfolio, combining strategic leadership, commercial acumen, operational expertise, and pre-opening experience. The Director will ensure each property delivers a distinctive and competitive food and beverage offering aligned with its market positioning, target guests, and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and execute cluster-wide food and beverage strategies aligned with each hotel's positioning, target market, and business objectives.
Drive food and beverage revenue, profitability, market share, and guest satisfaction across all properties.
Lead all food and beverage pre-opening activities across the hotel portfolio, including concept development, operational viability, and commercial sustainability.
Participate in project handovers from development and construction teams to hotel operations, conducting operational reviews of layouts.
Oversee all restaurants, bars, lounges, cafes, banqueting facilities, and in-room dining across the portfolio, ensuring intended guest experience and market positioning.
Develop and manage food and beverage budgets across the cluster, monitoring profitability, labor productivity, and operating expenses.
Build and develop high-performing food and beverage leadership teams, creating succession planning and talent development programs.
Ensure all outlets consistently meet brand standards and guest expectations, monitoring feedback and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Act as the primary food and beverage representative for ownership, consultants, and project teams, participating in business reviews and strategic planning.

Qualifications and Requirements

Over 10 years of experience in food and beverage leadership.
Demonstrated ability to build and develop high-performing food and beverage leadership teams.
Experience in creating succession planning and talent development programs across a portfolio.
Proven ability to foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Experience in optimizing staffing structures aligned with operational requirements.
Ability to promote employee engagement, training, and career development initiatives.
Track record of ensuring outlets consistently meet brand standards and guest expectations.
Experience in monitoring guest feedback, satisfaction scores, online reviews, and outlet performance metrics.
Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance guest experiences.
Experience in ensuring food and beverage concepts remain relevant to target customer segments and market demand.
Ability to lead service recovery initiatives and quality improvement programs.
Experience acting as the primary food and beverage representative for ownership, consultants, and project teams.
Ability to participate in business reviews, project meetings, and strategic planning sessions.
Experience collaborating closely with Sales, Marketing, Revenue Management, Operations, Culinary, Procurement, and Finance teams.
Ability to support ownership objectives through effective commercial and operational management of the food and beverage portfolio.

Preferred Experience

Multi-property or cluster leadership experience.
Experience with mixed-positioning hotel portfolios (select-service, midscale, upscale, lifestyle, serviced apartments, family entertainment destinations, or resorts).
Experience preparing F&B operating budgets, Pre-Opening Budgets (POB), and staffing models.
Experience with banqueting, event operations, and destination food and beverage concepts.
Experience supporting hotel openings and stabilization programs across multiple properties.