Job Description

Lead the guest experience, team and growth of a distinctive Adelaide cellar door. This is a hands-on role for a hospitality leader who loves creating memorable guest experiences, developing people and turning great service into stronger sales, visitation and function activity. Our Cellar Door is a day-focused venue, offering the chance to build your leadership career around premium wine in a positive suburban workplace. Regular late trade is generally limited to Friday evenings, with occasional Saturday evening functions; most other shifts finish by early evening.

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Key responsibilities

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Lead smooth daily Cellar Door, Cellar 2 operations, particularly across Friday-to-Sunday trade.

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Create a warm, knowledgeable and memorable experience for every guest.

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Lead wine tastings and work with our winemakers to build engaging wine experiences.

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Manage private, group and corporate functions from enquiry and conversion through to successful delivery.

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Build function opportunities, customer traffic and venue sales through local relationships and collaboration with Sales and Marketing.

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Lead, roster, coach and motivate permanent and casual staff, including accurate timesheet and payroll inputs.

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Oversee opening and closing, cash reconciliation, point-of-sale accuracy, stock ordering and inventory control.

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Maintain high standards of presentation, safety, responsible service and liquor-licensing compliance.

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Coordinate suppliers, contractors and venue requirements, solving problems before they affect the guest experience.

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About you

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Proven leadership experience in hospitality, cellar door, restaurant, bar,



events or a comparable customer-facing venue.

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A warm, genuine and generous service style, backed by strong commercial and sales instincts.

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Experience managing functions or events, including enquiries, planning and delivery.

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Confidence with rosters, staff supervision, stock, cash reconciliation and operational administration.

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A practical, calm and adaptable approach - you think quickly, solve problems and support the team when the venue is busy.

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Strong attention to detail across service, sales, presentation and compliance.

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Working knowledge of wine and beverages; winery or cellar door experience is highly regarded.

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Current RSA and Responsible Person approval/badge, or the ability to obtain the Responsible Person approval before commencement.

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Valid Australian working rights and availability to work the required weekend and evening roster.

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About us

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Established in 1926, Patritti is a family-owned South Australian winery and the last fully operational family-owned winery in suburban Adelaide. We are custodians of the historic Marion urban vineyards and premium McLaren Vale vineyards at Tatachilla planted by the Patritti family in the early 1960s.

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A rare chance to lead a distinctive Adelaide winery venue with a century of heritage.

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A primarily daytime hospitality role and limited late-night trade.

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Wine education, tastings and the opportunity to work closely with our winemaking team.

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Scope to shape venue service, events, local engagement and commercial growth.

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📌 Cellar Door & Venue Manager (South Australia)
🏢 G Patritti and Co
📍 South Australia