Visitor Services Supervisor - Food & Beverage at National Trust For Scotland

Position Visitor Services Supervisor - Food & Beverage
Posted 16 Feb 2026
Expired 18 Mar 2026
Company National Trust For Scotland
Location United Kingdom | GB
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

Latest job information from National Trust For Scotland for the position of Visitor Services Supervisor - Food & Beverage. If the Visitor Services Supervisor - Food & Beverage vacancy in United Kingdom matches your qualifications, please submit your latest application or CV directly through the updated Jobkos job portal.

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This is a fantastic opportunity to work as part of our leadership team at the iconic Glenfinnan Monument and its Visitor Centre , which attracts hundreds of thousands of people from across the globe every year. The Visitor Services Supervisor at a Trust property plays a pivotal role ensuring that the management objectives are achieved through excellent customer service and with delegated responsibility for catering duty management is very often the face of the Trust to visitors. As such directly influences public perceptions of the Trust and is significant to developing and maintaining the property’s reputation As one of two F&B Visitor Services Supervisors, you will be responsible for the day-to-day catering operations at our popular Viaduct View and Monument View takeaway cafes. You will deliver our quality standards and performance targets, ensuring we offer customers a fantastic Food & Beverage experience. You will be an enthusiastic team player who can supervise, coach and motivate your team. You will also be part of a broader duty management team responsible for promoting good communication across the site and a joined-up visitor services provision. As a charity, every penny we raise goes back into the National Trust for Scotland’s conservation work, caring for this special place. You will lead by example to produce an enticing Food & Beverage menu, to recommend and upsell our range, and to promote complementary income-streams like retail, memberships and donations. You’ll help answer visitors’ questions about things to do here and share your enthusiasm for Glenfinnan’s stories, the work we do and what their money is funding. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES Catering operation • Lead with menu development ensuring our cafes offering is appealing, profitable and sustainable. • Lead with preparation, cooking, training and presentation of a high-quality food and drink offer. • Ensure compliance with health and safety, food hygiene, food allergen, licensing and environmental health standards, completing all related record-keeping. • Accountable for cost-effective stock management, ordering, storage and wastage control. Visitor experience • Offer excellent customer service and ensure all members of the catering team do the same. • Support property-wide targets for completion of visitor surveys to understand more about our visitors. • Act as one of our duty manager team, responsible for ensuring a safe and smooth visitor operation, opening/closing the visitor centre, addressing issues and emergency procedure and providing relief cover, as required. People management • Supervise the activities of a team of permanent and seasonal Visitor Service Assistants (VSAs), achieving excellent staff performance and motivation through effective induction, training, task-setting and coaching on front and back-of-house routines. • Prepare catering rotas and holiday allocation to meet business needs. • Work closely with specialist advisory colleagues, i.e. our Trust-wide Catering Development team. Finance Management • Share responsibility for achieving an F&B budget of around £500,000 a year. • Monitor commercial performance and adjust activities to capitalize on sales opportunities and run a cost-effective catering operation. • Supervise daily café till operations and perform end-of-day income reconciliation as a duty manager. • Assist the F&B Manager with menu costing and stock-taking. Performance indicators and targets • Weekly, monthly and annual sales and cost of sales targets • Food compliance standards and record-keeping • Visitor enjoyment reviews and ratings from visitor surveys and visitor feedback • Staff satisfaction from staff surveys Tools / equipment / systems • Access to laptop and relevant online people management, training, financial monitoring and stock ordering systems, including NTS intranet and Microsoft 365. • EPOS tills and chip and pin machines. • Fully equipped commercial catering kitchens.41bf1e1f-b16b-4260-a40a-17c77a06fd15

Job Info:

  • Company: National Trust For Scotland
  • Position: Visitor Services Supervisor - Food & Beverage
  • Work Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: GB

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