The Pinnacle is a proper Melbourne pub — seven days, big Sundays, a public bar that fills on trivia nights and a dining room that doesn't let the standard slip. Taps, parmas, regulars who've been coming for years, and a team that takes it seriously without taking itself seriously.
We're looking for a Bar Manager to take full ownership of the bar and the beverage program.
The bar is yours end to end — the list, the cellar, the stock, the margin, and the standards behind the taps. But this isn't a role that lives behind the bar. You'll be on the floor through service leading the wider FOH team alongside our GM, and you'll have a hand in how the whole room runs.
What You'll Be Responsible For
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The beverage program: tap rotation and keg management, wine and spirits ordering to par, supplier relationships, cellar organisation and line cleaning schedules, stocktake cycles and variance
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The numbers: holding beverage GP to target, managing wastage, keeping POS product and pricing data accurate, flagging margin movement early with a fix attached
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Bar standards: speed and consistency through peak trade, setup and close, specs and pour standards, glassware and equipment, the bar looking and running the way it should at 9pm on a Saturday
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Floor leadership: running service alongside the GM, holding the room on busy nights, allocating the floor, and sorting problems before guests notice them
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Training and development: building product knowledge across the whole FOH team, guiding trial shifts and new starters through their first weeks, and developing the supervisors coming up behind you
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Close and cash-up: running end-of-night procedures, cash handling and reconciliation, and end-of-day reporting
What We're Looking For
You know a pub is a business, not just a service point. You can order, count, cost and pour, and you know which of those actually moves the number. You're calm at peak, you set a standard and hold it, and you're as comfortable reading the room as you are reading a stocktake.
Specifically, we're looking for:
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Two or more years running a bar, or in a senior FOH leadership role in a busy venue
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Genuine beverage depth — beer, wine and spirits, with real confidence on stock, margin and product
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Experience owning ordering and stocktake, not just executing someone else's system
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Comfortable leading a full service period without a manager standing behind you
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Someone who trains and develops rather than just supervises
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Current Victorian RSA
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Rostering and wage cost exposure well regarded
What Success Looks Like
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Beverage GP hits target consistently — every month, not one good one
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The bar runs the same way whether you're on or not, because the standard is trained in rather than supervised in
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Stock is accurate, variances are explained, and nothing runs out on a Saturday
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The floor team knows the product and can sell it — the whole room, not just the bar
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The people coming up behind you are getting better, and one of them is ready to step up
Why This Role
The bar is genuinely yours to run, in a pub that backs its leaders and is growing. You'll have real autonomy over the beverage program, ongoing development through PAX Hospitality, and a clear path forward for the right person.
To Apply
Send your CV and a short cover note to sean@pax.melbourne. Tell us who you are, what you've built behind a bar, and why The Pinnacle. We're not looking for a cover letter that mirrors this ad back at us — we want to hear your voice.
