Restaurant Manager
One of our renowned restaurants, located in our iconic Knightsbridge store, is the only one of its kind in the UK. We are seeking a dedicated Restaurant Manager who thrives in delivering bold, American style flavours in a stylish, high-energy setting. This is an exciting opportunity to lead our dynamic team and uphold the highest standards of hospitality and operations, ensuring every guest leaves with a memorable impression and a good reason to come back for more.
About the Role
Reporting to the General Manager, the Restaurant Manager will have full oversight of all commercial and operational aspects of the restaurant. This is a hands-on leadership role, responsible for driving performance, managing the team, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
As Restaurant Manager, you will lead the team in delivering operational excellence and maintaining the highest standards across all areas of service. You’ll be accountable for consistently achieving and maximising sales and profit targets, while creating a world-class dining experience for every guest.
This is a fully on-site role, working 5 days over 7. For more details on our approach to flexible working, please refer to our Hybrid@Harrods policy on the Careers site or speak with a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
About You
You will bring strong, demonstrable experience of leading in exceptional restaurant environments, with full accountability across all aspects of the operation—including sales and profitability, service standards, team leadership, and restaurant marketing. Having great experience working within a high volume, high-end restaurant environment would be advantageous
You will also:
Have passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge of the hospitality industry
Be an excellent communicator; with customers, operational teams, management and all other stakeholders, gaining trust and confidence
Have a proven track record of leading and coaching your teams to deliver
Have experience of owning and delivering on long-term strategic vision and capability of a restaurant, in line with growth and change (implementing appropriate frameworks where needed)
About Us
Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences
Our Promise to You
Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.
In joining the Harrods team, you will receive:
Set contracted hours and paid additional working hours at an overtime rate of £1.50 p/h
Great learning and development opportunities. Across our 27 outlets, there is a vast pool of knowledge to gain experience and grow expertise
Minimal late finishes by industry standard
Staff Canteen
Up to 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) + your birthday off
Up to 33% Harrods discount, plus much more
Uniquely You
Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply.
At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.
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