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DIRECTOR OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE
GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
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Located on beautiful Lake St. Clair and centrally located to all the Great Lakes, Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (GPYC) is an active, family-centric club, with facilities and activities that engage the entire family. Amenities, in addition to world-class yachting facilities and a 268-slip harbor, include a premier, year-round food and beverage program; a state-of-the-art swimming pool complex; tennis and paddle tennis facilities; and bowling lanes.
Club Details:
- Approximately $3.5M F&B revenue
- 45% a la carte and 40% banquet
- Approximately 275 total number of employees in season
- Catering sales volume $~1.6M annually
- 58 average age of members
Dining Rooms Include:
- The Spinnaker Restaurant (seats 60)
- Binnacle Restaurant (75)
- Seasonal Binnacle Terrace Dining (30)
- Main Dining Room Dining (100)
- Seasonal Harborside Grill & Gazebo Deck Dining near Pool (100)
Banquet Rooms Include:
- Commodore’s Room (20)
- Ballroom (275)
- Venetian Room(70)
- Lakeshore Room (30)
- Fo’c’sle at the Bowling Center (50)
- The Seasonal East Lawn (500)
- Tower Pub (30)
- Wine Cellar (10)
Food & Beverage Director Job Description:
Departments: Catering / Restaurant Service / Harborside Grill Service
Division: Food and Beverage
Reports to: General Manager
Supervises: Catering/Banquets, Restaurants, Harborside Grill (summer), Wine Program
Position Summary: Responsible for executing events and dining room service regularly. This includes coordinating with the catering, service, and culinary teams to ensure all guest expectations are met. The Food and Beverage Director serves as a key member of the Club’s management team and is responsible for the development and training of event and restaurant staff. They will be expected to go above and beyond to deliver memorable events while maintaining a high level of energy, professionalism, and hospitality. This role demands a proactive approach in identifying trends, developing innovative service strategies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and member satisfaction.
Job Duties:
Serves as a positive role model by:
- Adhering to the same standards of service and behavior that peers are required to uphold
- Demonstrating effective communication skills through various digital platforms utilized by Club
- Maintaining a positive and friendly demeanor at all times
- Working with peers to meet the needs of the team
- Representing the Club well in its relationships with members and vendors
- Continually provides services in the areas of:
- Exceeding the expectations of members and their guests, while representing the Club to the highest standards
- Ensuring accurate, detailed execution of all catered events and regular restaurant service
- Impeccable service and social perceptiveness
- Ability to evaluate guest satisfaction and responsiveness
- Ensuring all laws and Club policies and procedures regarding alcoholic beverage service are followed at all times
- Slowing and refusing alcoholic beverage service when necessary
- Continually seeking to enhance knowledge and skills related to service
- Maintaining self-awareness of members, management, and peers
Assumes responsibility for the department by:
- Creation, maintenance, and training of all catering and restaurant staff on departmental processes, procedures, and service standards
- Strategic marketing of principles to continually exceed the expectations and needs of Club members and guests
- Monitoring of departmental budgets, ensuring financial efficiency and high service quality
- Collaboration on menu design and maintenance of the point of sale system
- Maintaining proper record keeping for all departments
- Maintaining proper inventory levels, including wine, spirits, and bar
- Maintaining restaurant and catering storage areas in a neat, clean, and orderly manner
- Overseeing the creation of weekly schedules for all catering and restaurant staff
- Prioritizing and clearly communicating tasks with the General Manager / Food and Beverage Director, and Restaurant Staff concerning ongoing projects
Qualifications:
- TIPS certification preferred, but not required
- Sommelier certification preferred, but not required
- Ability to work scheduled evening hours including, when necessary, holidays and weekends
Excellent salary and incentive program, join a great private club.
Send resume in a Word format attachment to: ben@harperjobs.com
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT - BIRMINGHAM, MI
Join a Family Office - Bachelor's Degree Required
Require 5 years C-Suite EA expertise
Provide confidential and high-level administrative support to Entrepreneur, Business Leader, and Founder in his family office providing wealth management, philanthropic, creative endeavor, and operating business support services. Multi-faceted position facilitating and coordinating day to day business matters as well as an ever-evolving array of entrepreneurial Founder projects and interests, and the resultant needs for communications, correspondence, scheduling, and research. Some travel may be required from time to time. Position is located in downtown Birmingham, Michigan.
About the Job:
- Gatekeeper and part of a team liaising with Founder – Screen and execute all communications with a positive and personal touch. Monitor incoming digital, paper, and voice communications, and prioritize, process, respond or delegate per Founder’s wishes, directives, and priorities.
- Member of executive assistant team to support Founder in personal, business, philanthropic, creative, and travel endeavors, whenever and wherever needed.
- Shared coverage on occasional communications or tasks on select weekends and holidays.
- Facilitate complex, frequently changing travel schedules.
- Maintain strict confidentiality requirements at all times.
- Assist as needed with research as well as drafting, preparing, editing and coordinating correspondence and presentation materials.
- Travel infrequently to assist Founder with projects.
- Work closely with CFO on office management, organization, administration, HR matters.
- Support CEO on an as-needed basis.
- Coordinate closely with all office staff members regarding calendar, events, and priorities.
- Take on responsibilities of executive assistant partner(s) during vacations/illness.
- Culture carrier and mentor to administrative staff.
- Coordinate with managers and staff from all other departments and units including archivists, travel/logistics staff, home/personal staff, office and accounting staff and others, including Founder’s original global business.
- Assist transcriptionists/research assistants (overview and review/edit research work product as needed).
- Coordinate timing of maintenance and repairs.
- Coordinate activities of art curator and interior designer.
- Liaison with independent contractors on special projects.
- Assist with the filing systems, both paper and digital.
About You:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as an Executive Assistant/Administrative Leader supporting a CEO, or C-suite high-level executive.
- Bachelor’s Degree from accredited College/University.
- Project Management experience a PLUS with experience dealing with and meeting high-level clientele on a regular basis and managing those relationships with grace and polished acumen.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to change gears quickly – a truly flexible person who can innovate and improvise involving multiple challenges and problems.
- High level of integrity and discretion in handling all confidential information; trust and integrity is key to this executive.
- Excellent Microsoft Office Suite skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Familiarity with Apple products is a plus.
- A warm, positive “can do” personality with a “no job too small” attitude is a must.
- Very organized with self-confidence and an easy sense of humor make a great combination
Salary range $80-100,000+, full family benefits, bonus, desire ties to Detroit area.
Send resume in a Word format attachment to: ben@harperjobs.com
