Assistant General Manager
Location: Midlothian, Scotland, UK EH23 4SH
Application Deadline: 2025-05-09
Job Type: Full Time
With three whole decades of acting different, we don’t conform, we celebrate difference. Appreciating personality over perfection, we call it be you, be wagamama. With over 165 restaurants, we are looking for an Assistant General Manager to join us on our continuous journey to nourish us all from bowl to soul.
The role as an Assistant General Manager:
* You’ll be an inspirational leader, creating a positive environment for your team and guests.
* You will support in continuous coaching and developing your team to be the best they can be whilst driving your restaurant performance and delivering amazing results.
If you:
* Focus on creating a positive environment where your team feel cared for and listened to, celebrating successes.
* Prioritize nurturing and developing talent within your team, role modeling a coaching culture within the management team.
* Create a culture where all guests feel valued and cared for, ensuring that every interaction reflects exceptional service.
* Actively drive sales through your team, creating challenging and achievable targets, supporting the General Manager with budgeting, inventory management, labor management, and strategic marketing.
* Understand the business and local area to support commercial decision making.
* Are a forward-thinking problem solver, able to think on your feet and make quick decisions.
* Really want to understand your team and their needs, recognizing what drives them, allowing them to nourish and flourish in their role and career.
We’d love to hear from you!
What’s in it for you:
* Bonus scheme up to £3,000 a year bonus opportunity.
* Share of the tips.
* Free food on shift - anything from our menu! Plus 50% outside of work to treat your friends and family.
* An industry-leading family-friendly policy (any expectant person or anyone adopting a child will receive 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay).
* Be the first to experience our brand-new menus.
* Wagamama parties throughout the year with VIP guests.
* Be known nationwide as a love above the door legend through our national recognition programme.
* In addition to this, we offer all the usual such as pension scheme, holiday, training, cycle to work scheme, retail and leisure discounts, discounted gym memberships, and long service awards.
Be you, be wagamama.
Wagamama is proudly part of Disability Confident. 100% of tips go to our teams. Actual tips by restaurant will vary. Tips are left solely at our guests' discretion and are not considered as wages by the company nor are they guaranteed in any way.
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assistant general manager full time three whole decades of acting different, we don t conform, we celebrate difference. appreciating personality over perfection we call it be you, be wagamama. with over 165 restaurants, we are looking for an assistant general manager to join us on our continuous journey to nourish us all from bowl, to soul the role as an assistant general manager, you ll be an inspirational leader, creating a positive environment for your team + guests. you will support in continuous coaching + developing your team to be the best they can be whilst driving your restaurant performance and deliver amazing results if you... focus on creating a positive environment where your team feel cared for + listened to, celebrating successes. prioritising nurturing + developing talent within your team, role modelling a coaching culture within the management team create a culture where all guests feel valued + cared for, you ensure that every interaction reflects
exceptional service, whether through your own efforts or by equipping your team with the necessary skills and mindset actively drive sales through your team, creating challenging + achievable targets, supporting the general manager with budgeting, inventory management, labour management + strategic marketing. understanding the business + local area to support commercial decision making a forward-thinking problem solver, able to think on your feet and make quick decisions really want to understand your team + their needs, recognising what drives them, allowing them to nourish + flourish in their role and career we d love to hear from you wok s in it for you bonus scheme up to £3,000 a year bonus opportunity share of the tips free food on shift yes anything from our menu! plus 50% outside of work to treat your friends + family an industry leading family friendly policy (any expectant person or anyone adopting a child will receive 26 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay)
be the first to experience our brand-new menus wagamama parties throughout the year with vip guests be known nationwide as a love above the door legend our national recognition programme in addition to this, we offer all the usual such as, pension scheme, holiday, training, cycle to work scheme, retail + leisure discounts, discounted gym memberships + long service awards be you be wagamama wagamama is proudly part of disability confident 100% of tips go to our teams. actual tips by restaurant will vary. tips are left solely at our guests discretion and are not considered as wages by the company nor are they guaranteed in any way