Bar Manager
Oxo
OXO Tower Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie is a landmark London dining destination, renowned for its exceptional food, warm hospitality and spectacular views across the River Thames and London skyline. Located at the heart of the South Bank, OXO offers a vibrant and memorable environment where creativity, quality and outstanding service come together. As part of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to work in one of London’s most iconic hospitality venues, surrounded by passionate professionals and a diverse range of guests.
As a Bar Manager at Oxo, you will take full responsibility for the bar’s operations, ensuring a seamless guest experience, high standards of service, and strong financial performance. You will lead and inspire the bar team, curate an innovative drinks menu, and uphold our commitment to sustainability and excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, inspire, and develop a passionate bar team, cultivating a culture rooted in excellence, collaboration, and genuine hospitality.
- Create innovative, seasonally driven cocktail menus, thoughtfully sourcing unique and sustainable ingredients in line with Fallow’s ethos.
- Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of cocktails, wines, and spirits, confidently guiding guests through tailored recommendations and pairings.
- Oversee all aspects of daily bar operations, ensuring efficiency, strict adherence to health and safety standards, and consistently high-quality execution.
- Take ownership of inventory management, implementing effective cost controls and stock rotation practices to drive profitability.
- Collaborate closely with front-of-house and kitchen teams to deliver a seamless, cohesive, and memorable guest experience.
- Maintain strong food knowledge, ensuring the bar team is fully trained to support and complement the dining offering.
- Plan and manage team rotas with a balanced approach to business needs, operational flow, and team wellbeing.
- Uphold consistency and precision in cocktail preparation and pre-batching, ensuring every drink meets the highest standards.
About You:
- Proven experience as a Bar Manager in a high-quality, fast-paced environment.
- Strong expertise in mixology, wines, and spirits, with a passion for innovation and sustainability.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to train and inspire a team.
- Strong organizational and time management abilities to oversee all aspects of bar operations.
- A collaborative spirit and dedication to fostering a positive work culture.
The benefits:
- Competitive salary.
- Career progression.
- Continuous Learning and Development programme including external opportunities such as WSET and Leadership courses.
- Wellbeing initiatives.
- Reward and recognition schemes.
- Free welcome lunch for you and a guest.
- 50% restaurant discounts across the group.
- 25% Friends and Family discounts.
- 50% discount on company retail.
- Supplier trips, staff parties and team socials.
- Staff meal during your shift.
- Increased holiday entitlement after three years employment.
- Enhanced parental leave (after one year’s employment).
- Sabbaticals (after three years employment).
- Fowl Mouth: the opportunity for our employees to use Fowl as a venue to organise a professional pop-up night.
At OXO, we're passionate about fostering an environment that allows everyone to thrive and prosper, regardless of background. Diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach that promotes the voice of those experiences and viewpoints are well-known to be beneficial for our company and, consequently, career advancement.