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Job Advertisement — Bottle Shop & Bar Duty Manager

(Full-Time)

**Title:** Bottle Shop & Bar Duty Manager — Purple Palate & Finbars
**Location:** Maleny, Sunshine Coast Hinterland (QLD)
**Employment type:** Full-time (38 hrs)

About us

Purple Palate (with Finbars next door) is a proudly independent bottle shop + bar known for great product curation, warm service,
and community-driven events. We’re growing the venue and need a performance-driven manager who loves both the retail and the bar floor—and is fired up to bring new faces through the door.

The opportunity

You’ll run day-to-day operations across the bottle shop and bar, own the weekly roster, keep the shelves tight and margins healthy,
and build a simple events/entertainment rhythm that grows revenue. You’ll have clear targets, the autonomy to hit them, and coaching when you want it.

What you’ll do

- Ordering & inventory: Forecast, place, and receive orders; negotiate promos; manage stock levels, pricing, and GP; run monthly stocktakes with minimal variance.
- Entertainment & events: Build a 6–8 week calendar (tastings, live music, trivia, brand pop-ups) and partner with local businesses to drive foot traffic.
- Roster & labour: Create the weekly bar roster to coverage & budget, balancing penalty rates and service standards; approve timesheets.
- Growth & community: Execute simple, repeatable plays to attract new clientele—tastings, collabs, VIP list building, flyers to nearby businesses, and basic social posts.
- Standards & compliance: Lead the floor by example; uphold RSA and venue policies; cash handling; opening/closing; tidy, well-merchandised retail displays.

What you’ll bring

- 2+ years in a bar, bottle shop, or venue leadership role (duty manager / assistant manager).
- Commercial mindset: you know your GP from your shrinkage, and you can hit a wage % target with a smart roster.
- People leadership: you coach, give feedback, and set the tone.
- Promotion chops: comfortable hosting tastings and talking to customers on camera or in-store.
- Systems: POS/inventory & rostering tools; competent in Excel/Sheets.
- Certs: Current RSA (mandatory). RMLV / Approved Manager (QLD) or willingness to obtain promptly.
- Availability for a mix of nights/weekends.

Pay & perks

- Hospitality Award Level 5 (F&B Supervisor): $29.88/hr + penalties + 12% super.
- Monthly performance bonus for sales above a clearly defined break-even target (uncapped).
- Staff discounts, real responsibility, and a pathway to greater venue leadership.

What success looks like (first 90 days)

- Labour within budget with a stable weekly roster and solid coverage.
- Stock on hand neat, priced right, and <1% stocktake variance.
- A simple entertainment calendar running (tastings/live acts) with measurable uplift in transactions or average spend.
- A growing customer list (emails/loyalty sign-ups) and repeat-visit momentum.

How to apply

Send your resume and short answers (max 150 words each) to: [email protected]
1) A time you lifted revenue or foot traffic—what did you try, and what changed?
2) Your approach to building a roster that hits budget and service standards.
3) One event or offer you’d launch in your first month to bring new clientele.

Hiring Decision Kit

1) Scorecard (100 pts)

- Revenue & growth mindset (25)
- Roster & labour control (20)
- Inventory & GP (20)
- Leadership & culture (15)
- Events & community (10)
- Compliance & reliability (10)
Pass bar: ≥75 total and ≥15/25 on Revenue & growth mindset.

2) Screening questions (application form)

- Do you hold RSA (QLD)? License # and expiry.
- Do you hold RMLV / Approved Manager (QLD)? If not, when can you obtain it?
- Outline your weekly roster approach for a bar with weekend penalties.
- Share one before/after example where you improved sales, GP, or wage %.
- Availability (nights/weekends) and earliest start date.

3) Practical task (40–60 minutes, remote)

- Roster mini-exercise (25 pts): Build a one-week roster for a bar trading Thu–Sun nights + Sat/Sun day sessions.
Aim to hit a wage % target (you choose the target and justify it), cover peak hours, and minimise overtime. Provide your assumptions.
- Entertainment plan (15 pts): Draft a 4-week calendar (2 x tastings, 1 x live act, 1 x themed night) with a one-pager:
target audience, budget, expected lift, and how you’ll promote it (in-store + social + partners).
- Ordering snapshot (10 pts): List top 20 SKUs you’d prioritise (mix of hero lines and high-margin add-ons)
and your approach to pars and promo planning.

4) Structured interview prompts

- Walk me through a week you beat budget—what levers did you pull (price, mix, roster, events)?
- Show me a roster you’re proud of: what constraints did you juggle?
- Tell me about a supplier negotiation or activation that moved the needle.
- How do you coach someone who’s great with customers but unreliable on shifts?

5) Reference checks (2 calls)

- Reliability & integrity; ability to hold standards.
- Commercial impact: labour %, GP, shrinkage, revenue lift.
- Would you rehire them?