Location
London, Greater London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£35,000 per annum

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Assistant Restaurant Manager to join our team at Sea Containers. Green & Fortune offers high-quality hospitality experiences across London, with Sea Containers, located on Blackfriars Bridge, providing hospitality catering, bespoke events, and scenic views of the London skyline and Thames. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on leading our restaurant operation and delivering an exceptional guest experience through every service.

Alongside the restaurant, you will oversee our wider retail operation, including one café and one staff dining outlet, ensuring consistent standards, strong team performance, and smooth day-to-day operations across all areas. You will be a confident leader who leads from the front, is commercially minded, and passionate about food, service, and people.

Key Responsibilities:
- Be a key presence on the floor, leading the restaurant through every stage of service, ensuring standards, pace, organisation, and attention to detail are consistently delivered.
- Take ownership of day-to-day restaurant operations and be visible and hands-on during busy services.
- Lead, motivate, and develop the restaurant and retail teams, supporting recruitment, onboarding, training, rotas, performance management, and ongoing development.
- Champion a genuine guest-first culture, bringing menus and product knowledge to life, ensuring the team can confidently answer guest questions and deliver a warm, professional, and memorable experience.
- Take ownership of guest feedback and service recovery, using feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Support commercial performance through effective labour planning, stock control, cost management, and operational efficiency.
- Oversee the day-to-day operation of the café and staff dining areas, maintaining high standards of service, presentation, cleanliness, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with the Head Chef, kitchen, bar, events, and wider management teams to ensure alignment on bookings, VIPs, menus, service timings, staffing, and business needs.

At Green & Fortune, we take pride in the connections we make through the moments and memories we create, and we are committed to sustainability, inclusion, and creating a workplace where people can thrive.

Experience
Proven experience managing a busy restaurant operation with strong knowledge of service standards and the confidence to take ownership during busy service periods. Experience leading, coaching, and developing teams, with the ability to set clear expectations and build a culture of accountability, engagement, and pride. Experience overseeing multiple outlets or different areas of a hospitality operation is advantageous.

About you
A hands-on leader with a genuine presence on the floor and the ability to lead a team through challenging and high-volume services. Strong food and beverage knowledge, confident in communicating menus, dishes, allergens, and service expectations to guests and team members. Good commercial and operational awareness including rotas, labour planning, stock control, cost management, bookings, and performance. Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage competing operational demands. A professional, positive, and inclusive leadership style aligned with Green & Fortune's values of sustainability, inclusion, and creating a thriving workplace.

Qualifications
A strong understanding of food safety, health & safety, and compliance requirements is essential. Formal qualifications are not specified but relevant hospitality management experience and knowledge are expected.