F&B Manager

We're looking for a Food & Beverage Manager with a passion for culture, community, and culinary creativity to join our team at Hobo Copenhagen. Opening in the first quarter of 2027, you will be part of setting the scene from day one. If you're a strategic leader ready to create extraordinary dining and nightlife experiences, keep reading.

About Hobo

Yes, Hobo Copenhagen will be a lifestyle hotel. But more importantly, it will be a community. A place where we live, work, create, learn, and have fun together. A space for the curious, the social, and the young at heart. Since day one, with our sister hotels in Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo, Hobo has been about more than rooms, it's about experiences, culture, and connection. With our vibrant restaurant, bar, event spaces, and local footprints, we will be constantly evolving. Always in beta. Always moving. We live by three core values: professional, passionate, and playful—and we expect the same from you.

About the Role

As our Food & Beverage Manager, you are the operational engine, taste-maker, and leadership energy of Hobo Copenhagen's social spaces. This role goes far beyond traditional restaurant management. You will formally oversee all of our operative F&B departments, shaping how Hobo tastes, feels, and satisfies our guests.

One day you're fine-tuning a fast-paced weekend lunch service or managing cost forecasting, the next you're collaborating with our House Creator on a pop-up kitchen takeover or coordinating with external partners to elevate our nightlife scene. You are both strategic and hands-on, equally comfortable managing the business backend as you are being a warm, visible role model on the floor for your staff and guests.

Hobo is a melting pot of local and global talent, and we're looking for a leader who thrives in that high-tempo environment. You are an excellent communicator who is already leading a high-volume F&B operation today with proven, successful results in finance, staff retention, and guest satisfaction. To succeed in this role, you must bring wholehearted engagement, an eye for detail, and high levels of quality control. You are positive, flexible, and have the unique ability to make your staff grow through a supportive feedback culture. Working tightly with the rest of the hotel departments, you will play a critical role in shaping Hobo's unique market position.

What You'll Do

• Manage the daily operations of all F&B departments: the restaurant, bars, café, kitchen, meetings, events and dishwashing.

• Take full leadership responsibility for your department leads and functions, including recruitment, training, and continuous employee development.

• Full financial and budget responsibility for the F&B departments, actively working on forecasting, procurement and cost control.

• Ensure a world-class level of service and quality across all outlets.

• Collaborate closely with the House Creator to smoothly execute culinary activations, collaborations, and pop-up events.

• Manage scheduling and time reporting for your departments, ensuring the right tools and staff are in place to reach targets.

• Monitor and follow up on guest and staff satisfaction metrics, implementing routines and policies to optimize the workplace.

Desired Qualifications

• Proven, solid experience as an F&B Manager or senior leader within a similar lifestyle, restaurant, or hotel operation.

• Deep, well-rounded competence and genuine passion for the modern food, beverage, and hospitality industry.

• Strong understanding of commercial thinking, finances and cost control.

• Exceptional leadership skills with a proven track record of growing teams, fostering a positive feedback culture, and driving high employee satisfaction.

• Fluent in English or a Scandinavian language, written and spoken.

• Strong organizational skills to handle everything from vendor contract negotiations to daily scheduling and administration.

Bonus if you

• Have an established, deeply rooted network within the Copenhagen restaurant, bar, and culinary scene.

• Have experience managing multi-concept spaces where food, drink, and live cultural events seamlessly overlap.

What We Offer

As a full-time employee at Hobo Copenhagen, you are also a member of Strawberry and Nordic Hotels & Resorts, which gives you a lot of benefits.

• A creative playground where your leadership ideas actually come to life.

• The chance to shape one of Copenhagen's most dynamic new hotel brands.

• A role where no two days are the same and you can leave your personal imprint.

• Four free nights at a hotel of your choice in our hotel chain per year.

• Staff prices in all chain restaurants and hotels (Strawberry).

Employment Type

This position is a full-time position, part of the hotel's management team and reporting to the General Manager, Jakob Gjærum. Flexibility in scheduling is required, including availability for evenings and weekends depending on the activity.

Start date: October 1st 2026, or earlier if suitable.

Are We a Match?

If you meet these requirements and are ready to lead, connect, and curate Hobo Copenhagen's F&B experiences from the inside out, I’d love to hear from you.

Send me your CV and a cover letter telling me about yourself, your leadership philosophy, and your absolute favorite food or drink concept in Copenhagen right now.

Application Deadline: 9th of August 2026.

For questions regarding the role, please reach out to General Manager, Jakob Gjærum, via LinkedIn or at [email protected]. Please note that no applications will be accepted via email.

We review candidates continuously, so don't wait too long to apply!