voco Grand Central Hotel’s Champagne Central bar are looking for an Assistant Bar Manager (Full-Time) to join us in creating a warm voco welcome for our guests!

Pull up a seat and step back in time. Our Champagne bar overlooks Central Station and evokes the golden age of travel, with a sash of style and lashings of charm. For those feeling peckish, food is fine, flavoursome, and focuses on small plates and sharing boards. Afternoon tea has a special place on the menu and is – of course – best taken with a glass of Champagne. Awarded the Best Bar None Gold Award at the 2025 Best Bar None awards.

At voco, everyone’s a host. We’re reliably different, informal but professional, warm but polished and deeply committed to making every stay feel easy, human, and memorable. Sustainability and conscious choices are woven throughout the guest journey, ensuring we care not just for our guests, but for our environment and our communities too.

As Assistant Bar Manager at the iconic Champagne Central bar your main duties and responsibilities will be supporting the managing of a team of around 25-35 team members (including 3 team leaders) - training and developing our team members to provide voco standards of service. You will be working closely with our other outlets F& B managers within the wider Hotel to ensure a consistent approach across the Hotel. As the Assistant Bar Manager, you will also support with budgeting, forecasting, P& L and working with the wider Hotel goals and processes. Our Champagne Central Bar is a popular city-centre destination, and you can expect very high numbers of covers during evenings and weekends.

We are looking for someone who has…

• Availability to work 40 hours per week across 5 shifts (evening and weekend availability essential)
• F& B or Bar Supervisory/Management experience for a minimum of 1 year (supporting within a large operation with the ability to drive engagement in a large team is essential)
• Experience in training team members, confident in implementing training plans and following correct processes to recruit new team members.
• Knowledge of stocktaking and G.P to support the Champagne Bar Manager
• Extensive knowledge of spirits, wines, beers, and cocktails (we offer an exciting range of creative cocktails and need someone to lead by example)
• Would be a bonus if you have worked within a similar Hotel structure, understanding wider operations within the business.
• Creativity, you will be involved with creating and changing our menus on a regular basis in line with current drinks trends!
• Ensure high standards of food quality, cleanliness, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor service flow and improve efficiency during peak hours, manage opentable reservations and table plans.
• Basic computer and POS system skills
• Assist manager in Hiring.
• Overall, ready to work in our voco team and provide our guests with a warm Glasgow welcome!

Being a host at voco, we offer you the following benefits…

• Financial security – up to £30, 000 per annum based on experience guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! Plus, Tronc paid monthly. Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Colleague perks - worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F& B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6, 000 hotels and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal.
• Wellbeing – generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders.
• Hotel specific benefits – 50% discount in Champagne Central, Subsidised city-centre parking, Milestone gifts to celebrate life and career moments, 50% F& B and 30% Spa discount at our sister property, Kimpton Blythswood Square (subject to booking process)

If you are someone who wants to join a company which favours laid-back but attentive connections with a focus on the environment, apply today! Check out our Instagram page & #64; vocograndcentral to see more.

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.