Overview

We are looking for an authentic and driven Restaurant Team Leader (Full-Time) to join us at Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel brings together traditional Edinburgh architecture with an exciting and fresh indoor feel, offering our guests a modern luxurious stay. Welcoming locals to relax in our Garden area (a must visit), experiencing mouth-watering food in BABA restaurant, or guests from far and wide being pampered in our state-of-the-art Spa – we cover it all!

Responsibilities

• Support the Restaurant Manager to run the highly popular BABA Restaurant.
• Assist in the absence of the manager to run the restaurant and handle high-level service recoveries, ensuring guests receive the best service.
• Participate in training new starters and continuously develop the team; lead by example.
• Work 40 hours per week across 5 shifts (weekend and evening availability is essential).

Requirements

• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar or Hotel as a Supervisor, Team Leader, or Assistant Manager (or evidence of steps taken toward progression).
• Passion for providing excellent guest service with the ability to create a uniquely personal experience.
• Experience developing and coaching team members to perform at their best.
• Drive to produce results and contribute to providing extremely personal experiences and human connections for guests.
• A warm, authentic personality with a can-do attitude and commitment to service.
• Willingness to work as part of a team and embrace Kimpton’s service standards.

Benefits and Rewards

• Financial security – £13.96 per hour (£29,036.80 per annum FTE), guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support, enhanced sick pay, and Tronc paid monthly if eligible. Wagestream available for financial wellbeing.
• Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year.
• Colleague perks – worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B for employee rates, discounts through the perks portal, and more.
• Wellbeing – maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme 24/7, and access to mental health first-aiders.
• Hotel-specific benefits – complimentary stay for you+1 on successful probation, discounts across Kimpton Charlotte Square and InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel, plus spa and gym discounts at our Kimpton property.

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company that encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram for more.

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe all colleagues deserve equal opportunities to develop and grow within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Who we are

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create a culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors and colleagues connect.

Don’t quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you’d be a great fit for the job? We’ll never know unless you hit the Apply button. Start your journey with us today.