Summary

Position Summary

The F&B; Director - Strategy & Performance will establish the planning, reporting, analytical and performance-management discipline for regional F&B.;

The role will provide accurate and timely insight into portfolio performance, support budget and forecast processes, maintain regional KPIs and tools, coordinate improvement plans and prepare executive-level materials for decision-making.

Regional F&B; Strategy and Annual Planning

- Support the Director of F&B; in preparing the annual F&B; strategy and operating plan.

- Translate strategic priorities into measurable initiatives, targets and milestones.

- Coordinate inputs from Culinary, FOH/Bar, Events, Marketing and hotels.

- Prepare strategic analysis, business cases and recommendations.

- Track progress against annual priorities and identify emerging risks and opportunities.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Planning

- Coordinate the regional F&B; budget and forecast process.

- Establish planning timelines, templates, assumptions and submission requirements.

- Review hotel submissions for completeness, consistency and commercial logic.

- Analyse forecast changes, gaps and variances.

- Partner with Finance to reconcile F&B; reporting with official financial results.

KPI, Reporting and Performance Management

- Define and maintain regional F&B; KPIs and reporting standards.

- Produce weekly flashes, monthly performance packs and quarterly reviews.

- Lead benchmarking across hotels, outlets and markets.

- Provide clear explanations of performance drivers and variances.

- Ensure reports are accurate, timely, concise and decision-oriented.

Portfolio Improvement and Performance Enablement

- Coordinate structured improvement plans for underperforming hotels or outlets.

- Support hotels in diagnosing revenue, cost, productivity, control and profitability gaps.

- Establish baselines, targets and benefits for improvement initiatives.

- Monitor implementation progress and escalate delays.





- Evaluate whether interventions are producing measurable results.

P&L;, Business Cases and Commercial Analysis

- Partner with Finance on F&B; P&L; delivery, business cases, capex and return-on-investment analysis.

- Analyse revenue, profitability, food cost, beverage cost, labour productivity and outlet performance.

- Highlight risks to revenue, profitability, cost and productivity.

- Provide recommendations to improve commercial outcomes.

- Support strategic projects, openings, conversions and repositioning initiatives with financial analysis.

Systems, Tools and Digital Enablement

- Partner with IT and systems teams on F&B; reporting and operating tools.

- Improve data availability, accuracy, consistency and usability.

- Support dashboard, reporting and automation initiatives.

- Ensure hotel teams understand reporting requirements and tools.

- Promote practical use of data in operating decisions.

Qualifications

- 15+ years of experience in F&B; performance, hotel finance, commercial planning, business analytics or multi-unit operations.

- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, P&L; analysis, benchmarking and KPI design.

- Experience in portfolio performance management and improvement planning.

- Strong understanding of hotel F&B; operations, outlet economics, cost controls and profitability drivers.

- Experience partnering with senior leaders, Finance, hotel teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Solid analytical, structured problem-solving, business-partnering and executive-communication skills.

- Hospitality-sector and multi-market experience preferred.

Education and Expertise (i.e. certificates, licenses, etc.)

- Degree or diploma in Hotel Management, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or a related field.

- Finance, analytics, business or management qualification preferred.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, financial modelling, business-intelligence tools, dashboards and reporting systems.

- Working knowledge of project-management, collaboration and presentation tools.

📌 Food & Beverage Director – Strategy & Performance (Gurugram)
🏢 Destination Hotels
📍 Gurugram