Assistant General Manager - Aviva Stadium, Dublin, DO4 | Full-Time / Permanent

€75000 + excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life assurance, meals on duty, and more.

The Aviva Stadium is a complex, high-volume hospitality environment, demanding visionary leadership capable of balancing heritage with innovation, operational excellence with creativity, and commercial performance with exceptional guest experience. Together, the Aviva Stadium and Levy partnership sets an ambitious agenda—to continually evolve the food and hospitality experience and position the venue as a benchmark for excellence on the global stage.

We're looking for...

This role is about leading and developing the food and beverage operation at Aviva Stadium, ensuring an exceptional experience for every guest while meeting the client’s high standards and ambitions. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading, developing and retaining a well-trained team, maintaining consistent standards, and continuously improving and innovating the food and drink offering to ensure it remains exciting, high-quality and aligned with the prestige of Aviva Stadium.

We are Levy

We are a visionary venue partner. We design and deliver bespoke guest experiences that prioritise people and the planet.

Trusted by some of the world's most iconic stadiums, entertainment venues, and major events—from Wimbledon and Twickenham to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Edgbaston, the SEC and ExCeL London—we bring experiences to life with passion and precision.

Our mission is to succeed the right way. From pioneering tech and seamless operations to show-stopping menus and exceptional service, we use insight and innovation to understand guests, improve the customer journey, reduce environmental impact, and support local communities.

We are a passionate, diverse team of venue specialists dedicated to making the planet better for future generations.

Assistant General Manager - The Role

• Strategic Leadership: Work closely with the Venue Director, client and key stakeholders to set strategy, develop plans and deliver business objectives.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee day-to-day catering operations, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, service and hospitality.
• Client Relationships: Build strong client partnerships, understand their needs and ensure successful delivery of events, functions and catering services.
• People Leadership: Lead, develop and retain the permanent and casual workforce, creating a positive, engaged and high-performing team culture.
• Recruitment & Training: Ensure effective recruitment, deployment, training, performance management and succession planning across the venue.
• Financial Management: Take accountability for venue profitability, budgets, forecasting, P&L performance and effective cost control without compromising quality.
• Business Growth: Identify new commercial opportunities, support sales and marketing activity, and develop relationships that generate repeat and new business.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Monitor market trends, competitor activity and performance data to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, innovation and the guest experience.
• Quality & Standards: Maintain high standards of food quality, presentation, cleanliness, hygiene and service, ensuring the Levy signature culture is consistently delivered.
• Health, Safety & Compliance: Lead a strong H&S culture across the venue, ensuring compliance with all relevant Compass and Levy policies, legislation, food safety requirements and training.