Hyatt
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hyatt.com
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Organization- India Consultancy Private Limited
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.
- Strong 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.
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