Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

GENERAL MANAGER IN TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE NOW

Calling all hospitable, organized, self-starters!

Join our Management Development Program today and you could be running a wedding venue within 6 – 12 months. This proven training program teaches you everything about hosting events from food logistics to staff scheduling, and revenue planning to vendor partnership building. You’ll very quickly learn how to delight your clients, gratify guests, and keep your team happy, motivated, and on task.

With ongoing support from our General Manager network , our dedicated training group, and our centralized HR, accounting, and marketing departments, you’ll be set up to succeed. As hospitality enthusiasts, it’s our job to make people smile. We lift each other up, collaborate, and grow together.

You’ll love the competitive pay ; favorable bonus plan; PTO; paid holidays; sick leave; medical, dental, vision, accident and life insurance; a company funded health reimbursement account; and our 401(k) with company match.

Established in 1986, we’re still growing ! We have stunning venues across the states and are looking to add more. When you join our team, you’ll be assigned a training venue, as you progress, we’ll discuss which venue(s) are the right fit for you long-term in terms of location and needs (with relocation expenses happily covered, if needed).

Can you?

1. Commit to your own success by following the training plan, asking for help when needed, and stepping up to show-off your expertise
2. Understand and attain your venue’s financial goals
3. Strengthen the team you join by supporting the general manager and encouraging the onsite event, culinary, sales, and planning crew members through interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching
4. Adhere to our brand values and style by exemplifying our culture to your team, clients, guests, and all visitors to your venue
5. Work a hospitality schedule that typically requires weekend working and long evenings (balanced with late starts and weekday time off)

Are you?

• Familiar with hospitality – perhaps you’ve worked in a restaurant, bar, hotel, or event venue before and can transfer your skills
• Happiest among people – hospitality demands that you’re always working to please the customer and interruptions come as standard
• Keen to lead – and delegate, teach, coach, and hold others accountable.
• Organized – time management is a crucial skill and being able to perform well in a fast-paced environment is a must
• Computer literate – Outlook, Word and Excel should be your friends

Enough about you, this is what you need to know about us: Wedgewood Weddings & Events sets the standard for remarkable events. With 50 venues ranging from New Hampshire to San Diego, we offer beautiful locations designed to impress. We specialize in taking care of all the logistics meaning clients can sidestep all the planning headaches that are a normal part of arranging an event with traditional venues.

We’re powered by people. Enthusiastic, ingenious, joyful people who care about every client’s happiness. We’ve created a collaborative culture which helps us all succeed together. We want to help you learn and when we see an area to improve, we acknowledge, correct, and move on. Training to become a general manager is a big commitment. You’re giving your time, your energy, and your future to us, so we promise to treat you with respect, help you develop and make plenty of time for fun along the way. When you join our team, every day is different, just like every event is different.

Ready to find out more? We’d love to hear from you!

Pay: $80,000-$85.000

Quarterly Bonus: $2,500

Training Bonus: $5,000

Location: On-Site (no remote)

Local candidates preferred

*Final venue placement after training can by any of our Bay Area locations*

The important extras:

• As is typical in the hospitality industry, this position requires regular availability to work evening, weekend, and holiday shifts, as well as shifts of more than 8 hours and workweeks of more than 40 hours.
• Wedgewood Weddings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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