Food & Beverages controller

The Food & Beverages Controller will be responsible for overseeing the financial, operational, and quality control aspects of the food and beverage function across multiple parks with a primary focus on Lonavala and Indore. Your role includes in-depth involvement in costing, inventory management, product standardization, and compliance with FSSAI and legal regulations, playing a crucial part in optimizing costs, maintaining quality, and ensuring operational consistency across sites. Your key responsibilities will involve detailed cost break-up and costing analysis for raw materials and finished products, monitoring F&B expenditures to ensure adherence to budgets, and evaluating vendor quotations for better cost control. You will collaborate with culinary and operations teams to ensure menu and product standardization, maintain consistency in recipes, ingredients, and portion sizes, and support the design and costing of new food & beverage products in line with market demand and brand strategy. Additionally, you will implement and monitor inventory management systems to reduce wastage, pilferage, and stock discrepancies, monitor food quality and safety standards, ensure compliance with all legal and statutory food safety regulations, and generate periodic reports on food cost performance, wastage, consumption patterns, and variance. Furthermore, you will travel to park locations to conduct audits, train staff, and act as the central point of control to maintain uniformity in practices across sites. Ideal candidates for this role should have a minimum of 8-10 years of experience in food & beverage operations, preferably in theme parks, hospitality chains, or large-scale F&B outlets. You should possess expertise in costing, inventory control, FSSAI compliance, vendor management, quality audits, and multi-unit coordination, along with a Bachelors or Diploma in Hotel Management, Culinary Arts, or equivalent. Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, cross-functional collaboration, and a hands-on approach to problem-solving are preferred skills for this position, with a willingness to travel frequently between park locations. If you are interested in this opportunity, please feel free to connect on mrunali.khairnar@imagicaaworld.com.,