Assistant General Manager - Vino Volo Wine Bar
Paradies LagardèreAbout the role
At Vino Volo (a Paradies Lagardere Company), our mission is to change how people experience great wine.
In joining our team, you commit to supporting this mission by demonstrating our service standards at all times and holding all
team members to the same. Providing a safe work environment of trust and respect free of harassment is expected.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
All Vino Volo positions, including the General Manager, require that you embody a positive company image by providing
courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and team members at all times. We invite you to embrace our family
culture by following the Vino Volo core values: Be Extraordinary, Cultivate Community, Plant and Grow, and Share the Wine.
The General Manager will provide 100% support and commitment to achieving the company’s strategic goals including
profitable growth, guest satisfaction and associate engagement. The General Manager is responsible for ensuring that their
team surprises and delights Vino Volo customers through sophisticated customer service and wine expertise at the tasting
bar, in the tasting lounge, or in the retail section of the restaurant. The General Manager strives to develop and mentor the
their team, acting as a role model and a teacher. The primary goals of the General Manager are to lead and coach his or her
team to 1) impress customers with the quality of the Vino Volo experience; and 2) sell flights, glasses, food pairings and retail
bottles of wine to these same customers. Functions include, but are not limited to the following areas:
People
Build a great workplace for strong performers by promoting and driving an engaged workforce, career development, and
learning.
• Must love and support your TEAM!
• Deliver and coach employees to charm and captivate customers with a service level they have never-before
experienced at an airport, and rarely ever encountered at stores or wine bars outside the airport
• Inspire and mentor all team members to reach their full potential. Develop bench strength for all positions
within your location, ensuring upward mobility for high performing team members.
• Consistently recognize team members when they excel. Ensure that a coaching culture thrives, holding direct
reports accountable to all policies and standard operating procedures, using the progressive discipline
process when performance expectations are not met
• Source high potential candidates using variety of recruiting avenues. Ensure each candidate is screened using
approved interview guides.
• Ensure all direct reports complete all compliance based and brand specific training by the due date.
• Set clear performance goals and expectations for your team that meet Vino Volo’s approach to wine, service,
and sales. Following up consistently, providing feedback on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure performance evaluations and disciplinary actions are delivered on a timely basis.
• Drive associate engagement through a variety of methods, including the annual Speak Up! Survey. Be an
active listener and leader, holding regularly scheduled meetings to access the teams moral and making
necessary adjustments to action plans, as needed.
• Leading shifts when necessary
Operational Excellence
Strengthen expertise in the industry and deliver on our plans, keeping the needs of our internal and external customers in
mind.
Ensure positive guest service in all areas. Investigate and resolve complaints concerning food quality and
service, responding to guests with a resolution within 24 hours. Take all appropriate actions to turn
dissatisfied guests into return guests.
• Engage customers in an approachable but sophisticated manner and help them to discover and fall in love
with Vino Volo’s wines, making them want to buy these wines by the bottle. Create a relaxed, refined, and
enjoyable environment for customers – a pleasant contrast to the stresses, noise, and crowds of the airport.
• Listen and empathize with customers, with a focus on gently and persuasively up-selling them on bottles of
wine or enrollment in Vino Volo’s loyalty program and wine club.
• Role model the behaviors and service expectations you have of your team.
• Maintain professional restaurant image, including restaurant cleanliness, proper uniforms, and appearance
standards.
• Be a visible presence. Available to members of the team, guests, and airport partners. Monitor the
performance of your team and operational systems.
• Must create a culture where poor health and brand partner inspections are unacceptable.
• Ensure that all HACCP related initiatives are being followed and acted on when necessary. Enforce sanitary
practices for
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