General Manager

Join Lytham town's leading venue and make it your own

We're looking for an exceptional, hands-on General Manager to lead one of the busiest and best-known venues in town.

We're a successful, privately owned town-centre gastro pub with a fantastic location, a loyal local following and a great reputation. We're predominantly wet-led, with around 75–80% of sales coming from drinks, alongside a quality food offering.

We're proud of what we've built — but we're ambitious and believe there's still plenty more we can do.

That's where our new GM comes in.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of an established, successful venue while having the freedom, backing and opportunity to put your own stamp on it.

The Role

We're looking for someone who will lead from the front and genuinely become the face of the venue.

You'll take responsibility for:

• Leading, motivating and developing a great team
• Delivering brilliant customer service and atmosphere
• Maintaining excellent bar and service standards
• Rotas and wage control
• Wet GP, stock, ordering and wastage
• Working closely with our Head Chef
• Sales, costs and overall profitability
• Licensing, compliance and H&S
• Developing events, ideas and new opportunities
• Most importantly — driving the business forward

It's About People

We're an independent business and our customers are hugely important to us.

We have a fantastic base of locals and regulars, and we want our GM to get to know them, understand what they love about the venue and become someone they recognise and enjoy seeing.

We want a GM who's on the floor when we're busy — talking to customers, supporting the team, watching the atmosphere and making sure we're delivering at our best.

Working Hours & Flexibility

This is a full-time hospitality management position, with working hours organised around the needs of the business.

Our biggest opportunities are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so these are important periods for our GM to be visible.

Particularly during the first few months, we'd expect you to work across a good mix of weekends to really understand the venue, our team and our customers.

Flexibility will also be needed around major events, Bank Holidays, Christmas, New Year, staff shortages and particularly busy periods.

But flexibility works both ways.

We don't want a burnt-out GM.

We want someone who builds a great management team, manages their own time and understands when the business needs them — and equally when it doesn't.

Who Are We Looking For?

Someone with personality, energy and ideas.

Someone commercially sharp who understands a busy wet-led operation and knows their numbers.

Someone who can walk into a busy bar and immediately see what needs doing.

Someone who enjoys customers and understands that great hospitality is about people.

And someone ambitious enough to look at an already successful venue and think:

"I can make this even better."

In return, you'll have the backing of experienced private owners, the freedom to bring ideas to the table and the opportunity to lead a venue that already has a fantastic platform to build from.

Upto £40,000 per annum + annual performance-related package of up to £10,000, dependent on experience.

If you're an experienced GM — or an exceptional Deputy/AGM ready for the next step — and want the opportunity to take the lead at one of the town's standout venues, we'd love to hear from you.

Pay: Up to £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Work Location: In person