Become Our Bar Manager: Blend Creativity and Leadership in a Coastal Setting!

For more than 130 years, we have worked to provide our guests with unforgettable experiences and offer those we work together with an exciting and rewarding work environment.

We are looking for a bar manager who will help develop exciting cocktails and drink menus inspired by the fantastic Norwegian coast, a skilled bartender with management experience.

Do you recognize yourself in our values: We Inspire, We Empower, We Care, We Explore?

Working on ships is a way of life and you will get a unique chance to become part of a working environment with passion and determination to succeed. Collaboration, trust, respect and empathy are qualities we value highly and which are important for maintaining an environment based on diversity and inclusion.

Duties and responsibilities

As a bar manager, you are responsible for the bar and will create unforgettable experiences for the bar's guests together with your team, and help put the bars on the map of Norway.

Your main duties include

• Quality assurance of service to our guests and product
• Contribute to the development of bar chart and menu together with F&B manager on board and the group's F&B manager
• Personnel responsibility for bar crew, including training, guidance, and development
• Preparing the bar for service
• Know the alcohol law and act in accordance with it
• Responsible for ensuring that recipes, menus and concepts are followed
• Ordering goods in cooperation with the warehouse manager
• Hold courses for guests and crew on board

Qualifications/Experience

• You are a skilled manager and it is desirable with previous experience as a bar manager or similar role
• Work experience from Fine Dining
• Basic experience working as a bartender
• Minimum 3 years experience with a focus on cocktails
• You are creative and passionate about storytelling through cocktails
• The position requires you to be able to communicate well in English
• Scandinavian language is an advantage
• German and/or French language is a desire
• Hurtigruten set high demands for safety on board, which means that all employees must have; Basic safety STCW A-V/1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, Crowd and Crisis Management, and approved health certificate from authorized seafarer doctor. There is no requirement to have completed the courses before applying, but you must be willing to take them, and please note that the individual must pay for the courses themselves

Personal qualities

• Skilled leader
• Structured and uncluttered
• Proactive and flexible service attitude
• Committed to delivering high quality in everything you do and always going the extra mile to exceed guest expectations
• Good at motivating the team around you and leading everyone towards the same goal

We offer

• An exciting future characterized by new initiatives and great drive
• A challenging position, where you work with one of Norway's strongest brands together with good colleagues
• Varied working day with shifts 1:1 (two round trips)
• Exciting F&B concept
• Food and lodging on board
• Paid travel to and from the port of departure, by arrangement
• Salary according to Norwegian tariff
• Competitive terms with, among other things, good pension and insurance terms
• A unique workplace with good colleagues of all ages and social cohesion
• Challenging working days with Norway's most beautiful views

Applications received will be processed on an ongoing basis