'Progress' Retail Graduate Scheme
Join ‘Progress’ and you can look forward to a sociable career with a huge amount of responsibility within the security of a successful company. Goals and targets will be set throughout the programme, although ultimately you’ll be able to progress as your capability and ambitions allow.
A career in pub management is a satisfying and rewarding one. Mitchells & Butlers is the leading operator of managed pubs and pub restaurants in the UK. We have around 2,000 businesses offering food, drink, entertainment and accommodation in prime locations across the country. And we can offer some of the most exciting pub and restaurant management challenges in the industry.
We operate market leading brands such as O’Neill’s, Edward’s, Scream, Hollywood Bowl, All Bar One, Vintage Inns and Toby Carvery.
We also operate many of the most famous classic and historical pubs in the country including The Horseshoe, Glasgow where Travis were first discovered; the White Horse, Parsons Green, London famous for its range of cask and bottled beers and the Philharmonic in Liverpool, full of late Victorian splendor and an ornate, tiled gents toilet.
To enable us to maintain our leading position in the industry, we only recruit people of the highest calibre to run our outlets. We also ensure that these people are given every opportunity to reach their full potential in a career and environment that is right for them.
A Programme that delivers success
The ‘Progress’ Retail Graduate Scheme is designed for graduates who have a real passion and flair for the Licensed Retail Industry and wish to join the hands–on management team and pursue a career in Pub or Restaurant Management . The structured programme offers candidates a well-defined development plan to maximise their potential and reach their career ambition as their talent and determination allow.
Following success at assessment, candidates are then eligible to enter the company as an Assistant Manager in one of our Pubs, Bars or Restaurants. A wide range of Assistant Manger Vacancies are available across the whole country.
From day one you will have responsibility and the structured hands-on management training programme means that after just four months from joining you will be managing shifts and providing a safe environment for yourself, your customers and your team.
As an Assistant Manager, you will learn how to deliver results successfully and gain the qualifications necessary to become a Retail Manager. If you have the motivation, capability and commitment it takes to succeed, the faster you will achieve the ultimate goal of running a million pound business and managing a team of up to 50 colleagues.
If you have the commitment to work hard and play hard and you are looking for a career that isn’t just 9 to 5, Monday to Friday but have great fun along the way, then the Progress Retail Graduate Scheme is for you.
We look for bright, self-motivated, ambitious individuals with strong leadership and team-building skills and the ability to motivate their team. You will need to be an effective communicator at all levels and a problem solver who relishes the challenge of developing a business through your own skills and efforts.