About the role
As a Manager Food & Beverage Development, you will be responsible to manage the food and beverage development across catering services for all food, beverage and wine suppliers. This includes and is not limited to, nominated fresh food, dry stores, ambient snacks, beverage both alcoholic and non-alcoholic from suppliers across the world, based on the customer profile demographic, food and beverage philosophy and master catering profiles as directed by the VP culinary design.
You will also be responsible for sourcing and building relationships with new suppliers and managing current venders. Conducting market research, follow global trends, attend tradeshows to ensure our offering is current and in line with our customer expectations of a 5-star airline, at the best value for the company. In conjunction with marketing, you will involved in promoting our food and beverage through social media platforms and industry award competitions.
Other key responsibilities are:
Responsible for managing the award-winning wine program in collaboration with the Master of wine and manage the wine suppliers across the globe, in line with the agreed wine and beverage strategy.
Accountable for the administration and management of all food and beverage tenders across catering services, conducting the end-to-end process including nominating suppliers, technical evaluation, planning, logistics and budgets in line with the company policies.
Source new and innovative food and beverage products, collaborating with the culinary team in line with the food and beverage strategy.
Industry benchmarking, facilitate regular reviews of food and beverage products across all hospitality sectors, evaluate customer satisfaction for current products, research industry and lifestyle trends.
Manage the product development life cycle for all food and beverage products across inflight.
Build strong relationships and partnerships with our food and beverage suppliers, to enhance and develop opportunities to ensure on trend product proposition.
Conduct supplier workshops with our venders to develop new products that we can be first to market with.
Manage the development of the wine and beverage products and distribution strategy for the QR Catering network-wide.
Contribute to the overarching food and beverage product development programme in line with the airlines overall brand strategy.
Identify and developed promotional opportunities (working closely with the relevant company experts Marketing, (etc) to market and publicize the airlines award-winning food and beverage through all media channels.
Manage the food, beverage and wine cycle change process, including all printed/electronic menus and on-board food and beverage material.
Support the timely purchase of all food, beverage and wine stock items, ensuring that there are no out of stock or overstock situations whilst ensuring robust governance and control at all times
Manage wine programme maintain optimum stock levels and explore in-house warehousing solutions to minimise wastage and warehouse costs
Manage the planning and introduction of new food, beverage and wine stock items, including the timely withdrawal and disposal of obsolete stock.
Support and make recommendations of trade-off decisions required to balance risk and cost of supply
Collaborate with PDD and across Catering Services on the development / specification of new products, carrying out trials and providing user feedback to assist with the decision-making process.
Send out communication across the business to the relevant stake holders, when making product changes to food, beverage and wine.
Manage the procurement for food, beverage and wine processes - technical evaluation as deemed appropriate.
Project management, including task assignments, project coordination, budget management, coaching and supporting team members.
Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. Youll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve whats never been done before.
Together, everything is possible.
Qualifications
About You
We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join the Product Development and Design Team
Min. Diploma, Bachelors Degree in a Business Management, Wine Sourcing or related field
8+ years of job related experience.
Experience food and beverage Management within a hospitality environment
Possess a wine qualifications to the equivariant of WSET level 3
Experience in logistics, equipment and supplier management in a global environment
Experience in forecasting, planning and project / programme management
Proven experience of managing senior stakeholders in a culturally diverse work environment
Proven experience in leading and developing teams.
About Qatar Airways Group
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. Weve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We dont slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve whats never been done before.
So whether youre creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.
How to Apply
If you are interested to submit your application and feel you are a good fit for this role, please complete our application form and upload your CV for our review and consideration.
