Director Food & Beverage, Development & Openings Europe

Overview

As F&B Director, you will lead the end-to-end development and opening of world-class F&B concepts across Europe, shaping Hilton’s new hotel experiences. You’ll partner with owners, developers and brand teams to ensure concepts are commercially viable and deliver exceptional guest experiences. You will drive design, pre-opening planning, and post-opening review, elevating F&B capability across Europe. This role offers strategic influence, hands-on leadership, and the chance to shape scalable, sustainable hospitality concepts.

Pay / Benefits

• Incredible travel perks – 110 discounted nights via Go Hilton
• Employee stock purchase program (ESPP) with 15% discount
• Paid parental leave
• Personalized caregiving support
• Crisis concierge services
• Mental health resources and EAP support

Responsibilities

• Lead F&B concept development to deliver operational excellence, commercial success and outstanding guest experiences
• Own the design sign-off process for Front and Back of House, ensuring efficient workflows and compliant standards
• Lead owner and project meetings, manage external consultants through the development cycle
• Oversee pre-opening planning, value engineering, snagging and handover, ensuring readiness from day one
• Conduct post-opening reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Act as an F&B SME to support masterplans, conversions and third-party projects
• Drive CAPEX review processes for F&B initiatives and develop tools/best practices
• Champion sustainability throughout project lifecycles and present to senior leadership

Key requirements

• Extensive operational experience in hotels/restaurants – front and back of house – 10+ years
• Strong knowledge of F&B including product, culinary, beverage, catering, equipment, design, build & operational workflows
• Proven project management capability
• Leadership and influencing skills beyond direct teams
• Executive-level verbal and written communication
• Ability to build relationships across functions and levels
• Detail orientation with strategic priority setting
• Customer-centric mindset and hands-on willingness when needed
• Strong IT skills (AutoCAD, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Willingness to travel extensively

• Leadership
• Influencing and motivational skills
• Collaborative mindset
• AutoCAD
• Excel
• PowerPoint

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