Are You the Food-Led Operator to Take The Ship to Its Next Chapter?
We’re looking for an experienced and passionate food-led pub operator to build on The Ship’s already strong reputation and take it to the next phase of its journey. The ideal candidate will have a passion for hospitality, strong leadership skills, and the ability to create a friendly and inviting environment for guests, making the pub a real hub for the community as well as attracting guests from further afield
The pub comes with excellent manager accommodation comprising 3 bedrooms, kitchen, lounge, and bathroom.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, train, and inspire a sizable team
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the pub, ensuring exceptional team motivation to deliver first class service so gaining guest loyalty
- Oversee stock management and order supplies as required.
- Execute marketing strategies to increase visit frequency of existing guests and attract new ones.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and licensing regulations
- Take ownership of the operation and be the face of the pub
Requirements:
- Proven experience as a Publican / Manager or in a similar role within the hospitality industry.
- Strong leadership and management abilities.
- Ability to demonstrate excellent recruitment, training and deployment of team
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- A genuine passion for creating a positive pub experience and inspiring those moments
The pub and locality
The Ship Inn sits in a prominent hillside location. You’ll luxuriate in the fantastic views across the surrounding area.
The Ship Inn sits in the village of Eighton Banks in Gateshead, located around 4.5 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, bordered by Birtley, Harlow Green and Wrekenton. You’ll find it near Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North sculpture at Low Eighton.
Capitalise on a pub with a good reputation in the local area. It’s a multi-faceted business that would suit a live-in duo, operators comfortable with running a busy food business while keeping the locals happy in the bar. You’ll be the hub of the community, ensuring that your local trade thrives all year round.
The Partnership – Fixed
Ready to run your own business, manage your own team and define your own wage structure? Love working closely with an Operations Manager to build an incredible pub legacy with uncompromising standards and stand out guest experience? Then the Punch Managed Partnership is the perfect option for you.
Alongside tonnes of day to day support and a brilliant framework to grow the business, we provide an uncapped cut of top line turnover to pay yourself and your team in exchange for your Management Company providing the management services at the pub – it’s your structure to own, subject to management company costs including, but not limited to, staff costs, minor repairs and maintenance at the pub, security/door staff and insurance. We understand how important it is for a Management Company to completely own their own team.
In our Partnerships, we love pub obsessed entrepreneurs that help us lead the industry. We love to partner with people that help us create pub legacies that stand the test of time and become the hub of their community. We get that every pub has its own distinct character, so your Operations Manager will work closely with you to understand the true identity of your business, we can then help support you amplifying this, it’s a partnership after all!
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Chat to a recruitment advisor now about this pub business opportunity.
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