Bar Supervisor
Salary: 14.43 per hour
Terms: 30 hr/week contract, 1 year fixed term
Hours: Flexible, minimum of 1 shift of availability per week on Saturday or Sunday
Holiday: Calculated pro-rata
Reports to: Duty Managers, Operations Manager
Location: Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square
Deadline: 12 noon on Monday 20 May 2024
ABOUT LIGHTROOM
Lightroom is a new permanent projection-based arts venue which opened in Kings Cross, London in February 2023. Created through a joint venture between 59 Productions and London Theatre Company, Lightroom creates remarkable artist-led shows for audiences in London and across the world.
We invite the world’s leading creative minds to use our vast space and revolutionary technology to create something completely new. Launching with collaborations with the much-loved British artist David Hockney
(Bigger & Closer) and actor and producer Tom Hanks (The Moonwalkers), Lightroom aims to be the home of stories from the world’s most exciting voices across all disciplines of the arts, music, popular science or beyond.
Lightroom is located in King’s Cross on Lewis Cubitt Square, adjacent to Coal Drops Yard and Central St Martin’s. The innovative show-space was designed by 59 Productions in close collaboration with Haworth Tompkins, who designed the venue as a sister space to the award-winning Bridge Theatre. Along with a generous Foyer and gift shop, the space also contains a bar and seating area in collaboration with St John.
In late 2023, Lightroom Seoul opened in the South Korean capital.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Bar Supervisor (Admin) will support the Operations Manager and Operations Assistant in the smooth running of the bar, both on a day-to day basis and during events and private viewings.
They will assist with stock management, ordering, deliveries, bar documents, bar training and acting as the main Supervisor on shift when required.
Suitable candidates will be self motivated and have the ability to prioritise and manage their time and workload within a busy working environment.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
● Leading the team on shift, driving sales and ensuring excellent customer service is being delivered
● Maintaining the Bar and Foyer area, ensuring it is always clean, tidy, organised and a welcoming
environment for customers
● Creating a positive and proactive atmosphere for the wider team
● Schedule and undertake stock takes every Wednesday and Sunday
● Ensuring stock is displayed, readily available and that the team have good product knowledge
● Maintaining stock levels in the Bar Store
● Liaise with the operations team with tracking and ordering of stock
● Working with other Bar Supervisors to ensure reports are filled out correctly at the end of every shift,
and wastage is properly recorded
● Report any maintenance issues and liaise with contractors as necessary on visits to site
● Assist the wider operations team when planning events and private viewings, and being the lead
Bar Supervisor when delivering those events and private viewings
● Create and help deliver training sessions for the Bar Team on new products and offers
● Reviewing and update the Bar Handbook with the wider operations team
● Ensure all Bar staff adhere to current Lightroom policy and procedure
● Knowledge of alcohol and service laws and the confidence to enforce them
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
● Previous Bar Supervisor experience
● Strong organisational skills
● Excellent communication skills
● Enthusiastic, responsible, proactive and flexible approach to work
● Ability to remain calm under pressure in a busy and sometimes high-pressure environment
● Security and safety conscious
● Good level of IT literacy (including a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office)
● Articulate, good clear communicator who is proactive in their approach to work
● Punctual and reliable
● High standards of confidentiality, initiative and tact.
Desirable
● Interest in the arts
● Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office and Smartsheet
● Previous stock taking experience