We’re hiring – Taproom Manager
We’re looking for an experienced taproom manager to join our team, and become a Co-Owner of our Employee Ownership Trust!
Yes, that’s right… after 30 years, we’ve finally found a perfect space to serve our beer right by the brewery – just 200 steps away, to be precise! Our new space on the bustling and vibrant Abbeydale Road may be small, but there’s huge potential. Our hope is for it to be a destination for beer lovers to find our latest brews and small batch specials, as well as a great venue for hosting exclusive tasting events and an inviting retail space. We’re looking for someone to help us make this vision a reality.
Key tasks will involve:
- Serving beer – chatting about our range and embodying the Team Abbeydale spirit
- Bar maintenance and cellar management, including cask beer
- Stock management, budgeting and reporting – utilising our in-house systems to accurately and precisely record all completed tasks
- Ensuring a positive customer experience, establishing and maintaining customer relationships and handling customer queries
- Events management, working in conjunction with our marketing team
- Growing brand awareness and marketing the space, including via appropriate use of social media platforms
- Quality control and sensory analysis of our products, in conjunction with the brewery team
- Responsible leadership, including complying with all health and safety and licensing regulations and associated record keeping for inspections and audits
- Managing the rota and supervising staff
We’re looking for someone to join us on a full time basis. Opening hours are to be confirmed but you must be available evenings and weekends. The license currently allows us to be open until 10pm, so there should be no super late nights and the venue benefits from good public transport links.
Our ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge of and passion for beer, at least 2 years bar and cellar experience, impeccable customer service and excellent social media skills, who is dedicated to being a part of the Abbeydale community and confidently conveying our story to everyone who comes through the door. You will need to be a personal license holder, although we can provide support to achieve one of these for the right candidate. You will be one of the faces of the brewery, a first point of contact with us for many, and create an inviting space for visitors to become regulars. We believe in the power of beer as a social mechanism – we want to be able to share our beers with as many people as possible and this role provides the opportunity to do just that in multiple ways.
We are an employee owned company, so working with us means you will have a real say in how the business is run and play a meaningful part in its future. We are flexible and supportive employers who take great pride in training and developing our team. Last year we won the Employer of the Year category at the SIBA Business Awards too!
You will need to be comfortable with working on your own, however we anticipate you will have a small team of staff to call upon for busy periods and holiday cover. You will also work closely with the brewery team including being involved with brewery events.
Salary ÂŁ30-32k / annum (dependent on experience), plus staff discount across the business, future potential for profit share and the opportunity to join a growing and progressive company which holds community, quality and above all its people at heart.
If it sounds like you could be the friendly, passionate and proactive team player we are looking for, please send a CV with references and covering letter to marketing@abbeydalebrewery.co.uk with the subject “Taproom Manager application” by the closing date of Monday 16th March. We hope to hold interviews on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March.
You are welcome to email us or call 0114 2812712 if you have any queries.
Cheers!
Team Abbeydale
