Restaurant Director - Restaurant LiLi

Delightfully Parisian, The Peninsula Paris hotel is ideally located in the heart of the capital, just steps away from some of the world’s most famous monuments, museums, and luxury boutiques. The iconic Haussmannian building comprises 200 luxurious rooms, including 93 suites that are among the most spectacular in the city. In collaboration with the wonderful team at The Peninsula Paris, we are looking for an Restaurant Director for our Cantonese gourmet restaurant, LiLi.

Join a group that cares for its teams as much as its clients

Share our values of excellence and generosity

Develop yourself within a prestigious and international environment

Key accountabilities

• Exceeds guest expectations with service, in keeping with the Peninsula Service Principles, focusing on the core principles. Looks for improvement for better service standards with a general theme of anticipating the guests' needs.
• Ensuring productively levels are concurrently met in the Restaurant and understands the need to prudently manage utility/ payroll costs within stipulated budgetary requirements. Ensure the monthly and annual revenue targets are met and analyses all operational data to manage business periods, client needs and forecast future business. 
• Manages the day to day operations ensuring the highest levels of guest satisfaction.
• Ensures successful and profitable leadership of the outlet. 
• Suggest and develop sales strategy, promotions, activities, and budget to support the hotel in preparing the annual F&B marketing plan and budget. 
• Hires, develops, motivates, supervises, and performance manages department colleagues in maintaining a culture in compliance with mission, vision, values and cores principles HSH.

General requirements

• Minimum 5-year experience in a similar role within a Luxury Hotel environment with similar standards and expectations.
• Is a natural organiser, highly detailed and able to engage with guests.
• Strong people leader having prior experience managing a team.
• Excellent time management, communication and organisational skills, highly adaptable, naturally positive.
• Fluent English communication proficiency. Expertise in a second language would be desirable.