Due to our ongoing popularity and commitment to excellence and innovation, we’re looking to increase our team with the addition of a 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. With 51 luxurious bedrooms and a number of diverse event spaces — including a ballroom with breathtaking views and the outdoor Titan Sky Bar dome — we deliver excellence and memorable experiences for every occasion.
You will work with a fantastic team with a strong focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences. We’ll support you to develop your skills and passions in an environment built on warmth, professionalism, and hospitality. Bringing your own ideas and creativity to the Bar Manager role, you’ll help guide and elevate the guest experience beyond expectation.
As Bar Manager, you will take full ownership of the hotel’s bar and lounge operations, including the Cave Bar, Drawing Room, Domes, Restaurant and event spaces. You’ll lead service standards, drive commercial performance, and ensure a consistently exceptional guest experience across all outlets. Working closely with the Hotel Manager and wider Food Beverage leadership team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the beverage offering, developing your team, and delivering a luxury-led, experience-focused operation.
- Lead the day-to-day operation of all bar and lounge environments, ensuring luxury standards are consistently delivered
- Recruit, train, coach, and develop a high-performing bar team, leading from the front during service
- Own ordering, stock control, cellar management, stocktakes, and supplier relationships across all FB outlets and events
- Deliver strong commercial results by managing budgets, GP, labour costs, and revenue opportunities
- Create and maintain SOPs covering service standards, cocktails, presentation, guest engagement, and compliance
- Drive an experience-led culture through ambience, storytelling, menu development, and seasonal activations
- Support weddings, conferences, golf days and events with accurate forecasting, staffing, and operational delivery
- Ensure full compliance with licensing laws, health safety, food hygiene, COSHH, and Challenge 25
As a Bar Manager, you’ll be an experienced, confident hospitality leader with a passion for exceptional service, premium beverages, and team development. You’ll have strong commercial insight, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to inspire and motivate your team while delivering memorable guest experiences in a fast-paced, luxury hotel environment.
- Proven experience managing bars or lounges within a quality hotel or luxury hospitality setting
- Strong knowledge of spirits, cocktails, wines, and premium beverage service
- Demonstrable experience of stock control, ordering, inventory management, and GP control
- Confident, hands-on leadership style with excellent communication and coaching skills
- Commercially aware with experience working to KPIs, budgets, and performance targets
- Flexible to work evenings, weekends, and peak event periods
- Experience managing multi-outlet or high-volume bar operations
- Background supporting weddings, conferences, corporate or golf events
- WSET, cocktail, or other beverage-related qualifications
- Experience using EPOS, procurement or stock systems (e.g. Zonal, ProcureWizard, Fourth)
- Previous experience within AA 4 or 5 Red Star hotel environments
You’ll meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and receive a competitive rate of pay alongside a generous range of benefits, including:
- 29 days holiday
- Training and development from day one
- Employee events and celebrations
- In-house interactive employee communication app
- Free access to our state-of-the-art gym and swimming pools
- Healthy meals while you’re working
- Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial Wellbeing App, offering flexibility to access pay earlier
- Referral bonus when friends or family join the team
- Contributions to our pension plan
- Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”
- Involvement in employee recognition schemes
- Long service recognition
- Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary overnight stay with dinner for two
- 50% discount in our restaurants
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
- Spa treatment and retail product discounts
- Life Assurance cover
We’ll provide excellent training and development opportunities, allowing you to build a strong foundation for a long and rewarding hospitality career. Whatever your vibe, our family can never be too big — there’s a place here for you. All we ask is that you bring your energy, creativity, and passion for guest experience.
Please note: This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. Candidates with existing Skilled Worker status granted before 22 July 2025 may still qualify.
If this sounds like your next step in hospitality leadership, click Apply — we look forward to hearing from you.
