Job Ref: MC1341
Branch: Meldrum House Country Hotel Golf Course
Location: Meldrum House Country Hotel Golf Course, Inverurie
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Shift pattern: Subject to business requirements
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 12/08/2026
Closing date: 12/09/2026
Why join Meldrum House Hotel?
Due to our ongoing popularity and commitment to excellence and innovation, we’re looking to increase our team with the addition of a Assistant Restaurant Bar Manager. We welcome the opportunity to showcase the very best of Scottish food, drink, scenery, and warm hospitality to our guests.
Our unique features include our award-winning, locally sourced cuisine, our 800-year-old Cave Bar with an impressive collection of over 120 whiskies, contemporary luxury dining domes and an exceptional golf course, ranked among Scotland’s top 100. 51 luxurious bedrooms and several diverse event spaces, including a ballroom with breathtaking views and the outdoor Titan Sky Bar dome, allows us to cater for various celebratory occasions by delivering excellence and a memorable experience.
You will meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:
- 29 days holiday
- Training and development from day one
- Employee events and celebrations
- Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
- Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
- Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
- Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
- Referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
- Contributions to a pension plan.
Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……
- Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
- Involvement in our employee recognition schemes
- Long service recognition
- Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
- 50% discount in our restaurants
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
- Spa treatments and product discounts
- Life Assurance cover
The Role
Role As Assistant Restaurant Bar Manager, you will support the Restaurant Bar Manager and wider operations team in delivering exceptional food and beverage experiences across Meldrum House Hotel. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll help lead daily service across the restaurant, bar, drawing room, dining domes, room service, golf and events operations, ensuring guests receive warm, attentive and memorable hospitality at every touchpoint.
Working closely with kitchen, events, reservations and front-of-house teams, you'll help maintain exceptional service standards while coaching and developing team members to perform at their best.
Joining the dedicated Reception department, you will:
- Lead by example on the floor, delivering warm, confident and attentive guest service.
- Support the training, coaching and development of restaurant and bar team members.
- Assist with team rotas, shift planning and workforce deployment to ensure effective staffing levels.
- Maintain strong communication between front-of-house, kitchen, events and reservations teams to deliver exceptional guest experiences.
- Support menu launches, food and beverage training, tastings, service trials and special events.
- Assist with departmental stock control, ordering procedures, cash handling and wastage management.
- Drive revenue growth through upselling, product knowledge and proactive guest engagement.
- Ensure compliance with food hygiene, health safety, licensing and allergen regulations.
- Support performance management, one-to-ones, reviews, attendance management and colleague development.
- Maintain departmental SOPs, service standards and operational checklists.
- Act as Duty Manager when required and provide support across other hotel departments.
- Foster a positive, professional and high-performing team culture.
- High guest satisfaction and service quality scores.
- Achieve food and beverage revenue targets through effective upselling.
- Efficient labour management and rota planning.
- Strong compliance with health, safety, licensing and food hygiene standards.
- Team training completion and development progress.
- Stock control, wastage management and departmental operational efficiency.
About you:
- Previous supervisory or assistant management experience within a quality restaurant, bar or luxury hospitality environment.
- Strong leadership skills with a hands-on approach to service.
- Excellent communication and team coaching abilities.
- Sound understanding of luxury service standards and guest care.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise during busy service periods.
- Commercial awareness including labour management, stock control and revenue generation.
- Experience handling guest concerns and resolving issues professionally.
- Ability to build effective relationships across multiple departments.
- Experience using hospitality systems such as SevenRooms, Zonal or similar is advantageous.
- Flexible, resilient and passionate about hospitality and developing others.
Please note, this role does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.
If you are interested in the role, we look forward to hearing from you!
