Director of Catering - Durango
Station Casinos LLC., Las Vegas, NV, United States
Position: Director of Catering Department: Catering
Overview It’s great to meet you! Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Station Casinos and Durango. This role is critical for delivering a welcoming, luxury destination with best-in-class hospitality, exciting amenities, and a people-first approach. The Director of Catering provides executive leadership and strategic oversight for all catering, conference services, banquet operations, and banquet culinary functions for the property, with responsibility for driving revenue growth, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering exceptional guest experiences across meetings, events, and banquet operations.
The Director maintains full accountability for departmental financial performance, including development and management of operating budgets, revenue forecasting, expense management, and ongoing review of departmental profit and loss performance. This position also oversees the planning and execution of all internal property events, including executive functions, VIP experiences, marketing activations, and property-wide special events.
As a member of the Property Executive Committee, this leader plays a key role in strategic planning, cross-departmental collaboration, operational decision-making, and the achievement of overall property revenue and guest satisfaction goals.
As a Director, you are expected to be there for your team, enable and empower them to perform, own your operation or shift, and build caring and trusting relationships with your people. You must also engage and communicate with your team, elevate performance through coaching, develop your talent, and champion collaboration within your team and across the business.
What we can’t train is what’s inside of you Our values are essential to us, and we need them to be important to you, too. We look for managers who are naturally kind, inclusive, forward-thinking, reliable, passionate, and self-aware so they can lead by example. Being a role model for our values is non-negotiable.
In a perfect world, we would also like you to come with:
Qualifications
Minimum 5–7 years of progressive leadership experience in catering, conference services, banquet operations, or hospitality event management, with experience in large resort or convention environments preferred.
Demonstrated experience managing departmental financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, and P&L accountability.
Proven leadership experience overseeing large operational teams including banquet service and culinary teams.
Strong strategic planning, operational leadership, and organizational management skills.
Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with Guests, Team Members, and executive leadership.
Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to make sound decisions in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Professional appearance and executive presence.
Must be 21 and able to obtain all necessary work cards.
So, what do you think? If this is you, consider applying. If not, we still think you’re great and hope to catch up soon!
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Overview It’s great to meet you! Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Station Casinos and Durango. This role is critical for delivering a welcoming, luxury destination with best-in-class hospitality, exciting amenities, and a people-first approach. The Director of Catering provides executive leadership and strategic oversight for all catering, conference services, banquet operations, and banquet culinary functions for the property, with responsibility for driving revenue growth, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering exceptional guest experiences across meetings, events, and banquet operations.
The Director maintains full accountability for departmental financial performance, including development and management of operating budgets, revenue forecasting, expense management, and ongoing review of departmental profit and loss performance. This position also oversees the planning and execution of all internal property events, including executive functions, VIP experiences, marketing activations, and property-wide special events.
As a member of the Property Executive Committee, this leader plays a key role in strategic planning, cross-departmental collaboration, operational decision-making, and the achievement of overall property revenue and guest satisfaction goals.
As a Director, you are expected to be there for your team, enable and empower them to perform, own your operation or shift, and build caring and trusting relationships with your people. You must also engage and communicate with your team, elevate performance through coaching, develop your talent, and champion collaboration within your team and across the business.
What we can’t train is what’s inside of you Our values are essential to us, and we need them to be important to you, too. We look for managers who are naturally kind, inclusive, forward-thinking, reliable, passionate, and self-aware so they can lead by example. Being a role model for our values is non-negotiable.
In a perfect world, we would also like you to come with:
Qualifications
Minimum 5–7 years of progressive leadership experience in catering, conference services, banquet operations, or hospitality event management, with experience in large resort or convention environments preferred.
Demonstrated experience managing departmental financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, and P&L accountability.
Proven leadership experience overseeing large operational teams including banquet service and culinary teams.
Strong strategic planning, operational leadership, and organizational management skills.
Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with Guests, Team Members, and executive leadership.
Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to make sound decisions in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Professional appearance and executive presence.
Must be 21 and able to obtain all necessary work cards.
So, what do you think? If this is you, consider applying. If not, we still think you’re great and hope to catch up soon!
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