Job Ref: COL1229
Branch: The Horniman Café
Location: The Horniman Café, London (South East)
Salary/Benefits: £15.50 per hour
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Posted date: 09/06/2026
Closing date: 11/07/2026
Colicci is a family-run hospitality brand, proudly serving London’s iconic green spaces. Our cafés are bustling community hubs, offering exceptional coffee, fresh food, and warm hospitality. This location also host small-scale events, including children’s parties, community gatherings, and private functions.
We’re looking for a dynamic and hands-on Assistant Manager to support daily operations, lead a passionate team, and ensure outstanding customer experiences. If you have a natural talent for leadership, a love for hospitality, and thrive in a fast-paced, busy environment, this could be the perfect role for you!
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting the General Manager – ensuring smooth café operations and high service standards.
- Delivering top-tier customer service – making every guest feel welcome and ensuring a friendly, engaging atmosphere.
- Managing stock orders – overseeing ordering, processing invoices, stock take and stock reconciliation to maintain efficiency and reduce waste.
- Overseeing event enquiries delivery – coordinating small-scale events, such as children’s parties and private bookings, ensuring seamless execution.
- Creating managing weekly team schedules – ensuring the right staffing levels for the time of day.
- Training developing the team – coaching staff to excel in service, barista skills, and customer engagement.
- Maintaining health safety standards – upholding the highest food and hygiene standards.
- Bringing energy enthusiasm – supporting a positive, team-focused work environment.
What We’re Looking For:
- An experienced hospitality professional – with previous experience as an Assistant Manager, or Café Supervisor.
- A customer-obsessed leader – who loves creating exceptional guest experiences.
- A hands-on team player – leading by example and always up for a challenge.
- A detail-oriented manager – experienced in ordering, stock control, and waste management.
- A problem-solver – able to think on your feet and handle the unexpected.
- A flexible adaptable attitude – ready to work weekends and peak periods but no evenings.
Why Join Colicci?
- Competitive salary - proud to be a Living Wage employer
- No late nights - most of our locations close by 5pm during winter hours and 7pm during summer
- Free food hot beverages on shift - get to choose a menu item of your choice
- Paid breaks - for all team members
- Exciting career growth – be part of a thriving, growing business
- Team discounts – enjoy 40% off across all our sites
- A supportive team culture – where passion thrives
- If you’re a motivated hospitality professional looking for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note that unfortunately this role does not qualify for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK that does not require sponsorship.
Our first cafe in the Colicci collection to be connected to a museum. We are thrilled to have partnered with the Horniman Museum and Gardens to operate their cafe space alongside the Bandstand kiosk situated in the gardens. The Horniman Museum and Gardens opened in 1901 as a gift to the people in perpetuity from tea trader and philanthropist Frederick John Horniman, to ‘bring the world to Forest Hill’. Today the Horniman has a collection of 350,000 objects, specimens and artefacts from around the world.
The interior scheme references the heritage features of the original architecture by Charles Harrison Townsend with a contemporary, timeless approach synonymous with the established Colicci cafe style.
Opened in 1901, the original Horniman Museum building is a unique example of the “Modern Style”. The limestone “Tree of Life” motif, as an emblem of nature in design, provided inspiration for The Horniman Cafe’s bespoke metalwork screen. This surrounds a set of new island booth seats to the centre of the cafe, upholstered using recycled wool fabric. Foresso Timber features once again for the Colicci cafe table tops. The sustainable timber terrazzo material captures waste timber to create a natural and textured finish. The central floor has received an eco Cork finish which is carbon negative and also has acoustic properties to allay noise levels in the bustling cafe
