Senior Director of Food and Beverage

Make Fleet Landing the next chapter in your story.
Filled with great stories and storytellers, Fleet Landing can change the story of your life. Find a career here, and you can add depth and meaning to your story beyond what you can imagine.

Our Story
Integrity and passion drive us to be extraordinary. Since our beginnings in 1990, our dynamic and purpose-driven community has become a place where excellence abounds. No one offers a senior living community quite like Fleet Landing. From pristine campus to luxury healthcare environments, to extraordinary dining experiences, our commitment to excellence in hospitality is found in every detail. There's nothing we won't do to support the successful aging of those who live here.

Your Opportunity
Fleet Landing continues to grow and we are looking for a dynamic food and beverage professional to lead our Dining and Culinary services teams. With our latest $120M expansion project, we are serving Residents, employees, and guests across 13 bold and cutting-edge restaurants and dining outlets! The Director of Food & Beverage will manage and lead a professional team of hospitality managers, culinarians, and dietitians, while adding new innovation to our campus wide dining and culinary programs. Fleet Landing features fine dining, pubs, casual fare, a first of its kind food truck, a staff and Resident marketplace, farmers markets, an upscale coffee house, a grab-n-go program, open-kitchen grill, wine dinners and tastings, poolside barbecue's, formal events and more...what can YOU add to the mix?

WELLInspired - Benefits

Our Residents deserve the best, and so do you. We offer generous benefits in addition to meaningful work, enriching community and a competitive salary. Full-time benefits include a generous 401k match, 90% of medical premium costs employer paid, uncapped PTO accrual from day 1, and extraordinary scholarship and continuing education opportunities.

We invite you to make Fleet Landing the next chapter in your story - and give your life new meaning. Tell us why Fleet Landing is where you want to write the next chapter in your life!

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads and directs campus food and beverage operations, including but not limited to independent living dining rooms, health center/assisted living dining venues, all kitchens, bar areas, coffee shop, food truck, and catering and banquet operations.
• Oversees and provides visionary, compassionate, and values-based leadership for the food and beverage departments, including Executive Chefs and Dining Room Managers/Supervisors.
• Continues to elevate the community's reputation as a national model for dining innovation and premier-level hospitality services.
• Must be professional in every aspect and good at communications as the position is highly visible to Residents.
• Conceptualizes, plans and executes the successful opening of new venues, in accordance with budgeted guidelines and timelines.
• Controls costs of all food and beverage outlets by overseeing budgeting and purchasing of food, beverages, supplies and equipment; efficient manpower planning and scheduling; maintaining effective inventory and shortage controls; tracking expenses utilizing spend down tool.
• Maintains Resident satisfaction and staff productivity by handling their inquiries, concerns or comments and providing solutions; acquiring feedback from Residents and co-workers in order to ensure satisfaction and/or implement service improvement ideas; developing new concepts to increase Resident and Staff satisfaction.
• Ensures compliance with state and federal regulations and that food and beverage inspections yield positive results; establishes protocols for addressing concerns/deficiencies and puts parameters in place to monitor future compliance.
• Shows integrity and ethical behavior, in accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values of Fleet Landing.
• Position reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer

Qualifications:

Minimum Education Required:

Bachelor's degree required, Serve Safe certification is required within 90 days of employment.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of experience managing multi-outlet Food & Beverage operation in a similar environment. Previous Senior Living or Healthcare experience preferred, along with proven experience in a high-end service environment. Opening experience, a plus. Passion for serving Residents and Staff a must! Must have excellent written and verbal management skills and ability to coach/mentor staff.

Relocation stipend considered for qualified candidates.

Fleet Landing is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace