Food and Beverage Manager / Director

Damir Mamadiev

Food and Beverage Manager

Personal

Date of Birth:

Nationality:

27.02.1982

Uzbek

Marital Status:

Single

Current location:

Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Phone:

Home: +998**-***-**-**

Mobile: +998**-***-**-**

Email:

********.*****@*****.***

Professional Summary

Bi-lingual F&B expert with over 15 years of experience in F&B operations. A dynamic, result-oriented Food and Beverage Director offering focused leadership to drive sales and profitability in highly competitive markets. Noted for outstanding communications skills, both with guest and staff; ability to resolve problems quickly and equitably to ensure satisfied customers and happy employees. Manager with the ability to motivate staff members and turn under-producing teams to record breaking units.

Core Competencies

Quality and consistency of service

Problems solving

Optimizing team performance

Inventory management

Health & Safety management, FSMS

Budgeting, forecasting and P&L analysis

Staff training and motivating

Menu and wine lists engineering

Personnel management

Managing supply chains

Professional Experience

2019 – June 2022 F&B Director at «Kinorica» LLC Hospitality Management Company (Official franchisee of Hilton brand in Uzbekistan) Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Responsible for all F&B related pre-opening activities, such as: approving F&B outlets layouts, kitchen and restaurant equipment selection, service operational equipment selection, outlets concept and menu development, personnel management, training of staff, SOP development and implementation, budgeting & forecasting, storekeeping systems set-up, hygiene standards set-up and implementation. Took a direct part in the training of 50 F&B staff members of Hilton Garden Inn Samarkand, opened in 21st of August 2022. Worked on three projects simultaneously Hilton Double Tree, Bukhara city; Hilton Garden Inn, Samarkand city and Samarkand Touristic Centre, Samarkand city.

2015 – 2019 F&B Operations Manager at LLC «Five Line» (Anglesey Food Ltd.) Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Opened and managed chain of Food Courts in Tashkent city, with 150+ team members. Implemented pre-opening plan: market research, identifying kiosks concept, budgeting and forecasting, recruiting and selecting staff, developing business processes for every kiosk, storekeeping system set up, SOP`s development. Personally trained 120 team members. Optimized central kitchen production by implementing inventory management procedures and strong tracking process with direct prep staff involvement, which led to decrease of food waste to 10%.

2014-2015 Food & Beverage Manager “Golden Pheasant” Hotel Astana, Kazakhstan.

Led a team of 45 staff members, 1 banquet hall for 400 guests, Lobby Bar, 2 meeting rooms,

2 restaurants and summer terrace for 100 guests. Managed to increase budgeted revenue by 10% during the year by implementing yield management and introducing cost effective menus and seasonal promotions.

2012-2013 Restaurant & IRD Manager - Jumeirah Bilgah Beach Hotel Baku, Azerbaijan

In charge of day-to-day operations of All Day Dining restaurant and In-room dining, with team of 35 employees. Successfully managed serving 750-800 guests on daily basis in All Day Dining restaurant with average leading quality assurance-LQA score of 93%. Improved timing and quality of service of 15 Villas by optimizing processes and training of the team members. In partnership with executive chef created and implemented special villa menu with option to order products in bulks by KG and cook at the villa kitchen, which increased in-room dining average check from 27$ to approximately 32-33$ and made the guests feel at home.

2008-2012 Restaurant Manager- Hotel InterContinental Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Managed Fine Dining Restaurant with 20 team members. Increased daily revenue by 12% during the year from 2475$ to 2772$ by constantly monitoring revenue per available seat hour – REVPASH, motivating team members to upsell and improving menus by analysing sales data.

Systems

Micros, Materials Control, HRS Back Office, Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, MS Project, Outlook, AutoCAD

Education

Uzbek State University of Physical Culture and Sports, Bachelor Degree 1999-2002

High School

1989-1999

Languages

English – C1, Russian – Native, Uzbek – Native

Certifications

Cornell University, Food and Beverage Management Certificate. 2023

References available upon request.

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