Bottle Shop Manager | The Newport

The Venue

Nestled amongst idyllic gardens and incorporating various outdoor dining spaces and bars (think mouth-watering burgers, wood-fired pizza's, and simple, no fuss seafood), the sprawling grounds of The Newport include areas perfect for our guests to while the day and night away.

This impressive venue has already captured the hearts of locals and visitors when we opened its doors in early 2016, making it Australia’s largest beer garden.

The Role
We are looking for a Bottle Shop Manager that has previous experience in retail or hospitality management and operating a business as if it’s your own. Experience working in a bottle shop would be a bonus! You will be working within a fast paced environment and alongside multiple departments within a complex style venue. Responsible for the financial performance of the business with a focus on driving a sales performance culture, you will be expected to develop the offering through staff training, guest centric approach to service, maintaining store presentation and activating promotions. A strong product knowledge across alcohol brands and wine, plus stock control management experience is preferred though training will be provided.

This is a full time position requiring flexibility due to a 7-day trading schedule.

To be successful, you will require:

• Strong management experience and excellent communication skills;
• A current RSA and the ability to comply with Licensing and other relevant legislation;
• The ability to drive a sales focused team with a goal to increase revenue;
• Excellent customer service skills and a high level of personal presentation;
• Computer literacy including POS systems.

The Reward

In return you will be provided with a strong and supportive team environment, a rewarding pay, genuine career opportunities and incredibly generous discounts and benefits – including discounts across multiple Merivale venues for you and your friends when you’re not working.

Merivale is looking forward to a strong and bright future, this includes being a registered ‘COVIDsafe’ organisation. Keeping the health & safety of our guests and employees is at the forefront of how we operate, and under the directive of the Government, we will continue to maintain a ‘COVIDSAFE’ environment for all.

(Please note only suitable applicants’ that have the right to work in Australia and hold a valid NSW RSA will be contacted)