Trackside Host
Company: Absolute Taste
Location:
Bicester
OX26 4SS
United Kingdom
Date Posted: 2025-03-10 13:03:23
Salary: £28000.0 PER_YEAR
Job Type: Full-Time
Absolute Taste is a leading event catering company dedicated to the provision of high-end catering services to Formula 1, Private Jet Aviation, performance sports, high-end Domestic & International Events along with a strong presence in catering venues within retail.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Trackside Host professional to join our team! If you’re seeking your next challenge and are passionate about building a career in a fast-paced and growing company, this role is perfect for you. You'll be working in a unique and dynamic environment like no other.
Key Tasks
Planning:
- Working with Absolute Taste and Williams to deliver exceptional catering and hospitality in a busy, demanding environment
- Superb front of house presence, service, gravitas, and attention to detail with ability to demonstrate experience within a luxury hospitality environment
- Excellent client relationship building and management
- Calm and decisive in challenging, stressful situations
- Organised, punctual, motivational, and with varied communication skills, (formal, informal, international)
- Strong organizational skills to support Project Lead and Trackside Hospitality Manager
- Assist with planning and delivery of temp staff induction and training alongside Trackside Hospitality Manager
On Event:
- Act as an ambassador for Absolute Taste towards our client and guests
- Live event management; outstanding front of house presence and attention to detail
- Ensuring hospitality areas are ready at the required time, including the highest standards of staff and FoH presentation
- Proactively engage with team and guests and be on hand at all times to assist the client with any requests
- Making all guests, team members, media and sponsors feel welcome
- Serving food and drink during meal times
- Clearing tables and ensuring everywhere looks clean
- Assisting chefs, if required, with basic food preparation and washing up
- Joint responsibility of all FOH staff to keep the facility clean and tidy at all times
- Assisting the barman with drink service
- Working closely with the FOH hostesses and the other Bartender
- Actively manage assigned area or separate hospitality area as required
- Safe and speedy pack down of all areas and equipment
Post Event
- Ensure all records and reports are fully completed, up-to-date and passed to the Project Lead
- Ensure all lessons learned are documented and carried forward to the next event
- Attend the post-event debrief with the client as required
Required experience and characteristics
- Event or restaurant experience, ideally with international focus
- A passion for events and events hospitality
- The ability to communicate at a variety of levels including the management of fellow team members, the client and the contractor base
- The role requires travel and work abroad for approximately 25 weeks of the year, in line with the F1 calendar
- Adhere to standards of behavior and conduct expected by Williams and Absolute Taste
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