The Director of Food & Beverage leads all dining, bar, banquet, and room-service operations at Shangri-La Hambantota. The role typically requires a degree or diploma in hospitality management, extensive experience in luxury hotels or resorts, and a strong background in food and beverage leadership. The successful candidate should understand budgeting, menu planning, cost control, service standards, hygiene, licensing, and guest satisfaction. Excellent communication, commercial awareness, staff-development skills, and the ability to manage diverse teams are essential. The candidate is expected to increase revenue, maintain brand standards, coordinate with other departments, and deliver consistently high-quality guest experiences in a resort environment.
Shangri-La is a major international luxury hospitality group founded in Asia and known for high standards of service, distinctive properties, and warm, personalized guest experiences. Its portfolio includes luxury hotels, resorts, residences, and related hospitality businesses across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America. Shangri-La Hambantota is a large beachfront resort on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, offering guestrooms, villas, restaurants, bars, meeting facilities, recreation, and wellness services. The property serves leisure travelers, families, groups, weddings, and corporate guests. Employees generally work within a structured international hotel environment, with emphasis on guest satisfaction, operational consistency, teamwork, commercial performance, and professional development.
Sri Lanka offers opportunities in hotels, tourism, restaurants, travel services, IT, education, healthcare, finance, and international business. Hospitality roles are especially available in Colombo, the south-coast resorts, Kandy, the Cultural Triangle, and the eastern beaches. The island combines Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, and colonial influences, with strong traditions of family, religion, festivals, cricket, and generous hospitality. Lifestyle ranges from busy urban living in Colombo to relaxed coastal or rural communities, with relatively affordable food, transport, and housing compared with many international destinations. Foreign employees normally need an employment visa or residence permission arranged and sponsored by the employer; working on a tourist visa is not permitted. Candidates should confirm salary, accommodation, insurance, taxes, dependents’ arrangements, and relocation support before accepting an offer. Climate is tropical, with regional monsoon differences.
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