Johnny Grint

Led Joint Venture division for Punch

• Implementation and accountability for a team of Heads Of Department across marketing, human resources, finance, recruitment, legal and compliance.
• Cultivated strategic partnership opportunities with external pub companies and brands.
• Simplified complex business models for presentation to investors and wider Punch teams, ensuring clarity and stakeholder engagement.
• Secured £1.2M of external investment.
• Chaired the JV board, reported directly to executive.

Head of London and South-East pub division

• Responsible for three Operations Managers and 30 pubs within our Managed Partnerships business.
• Accountable for approximately £3M in pub investments, delivering exceptional ROI.
• Area budgets and P&L accountability with excellent financial control and performances.
• Promoted a hands-on, collaborative approach between the pub and operations teams within an MP environment, fostering a brand of hard work, pride and longevity.
• Aligned divisional objectives with overall company goals for unified direction and focus.
• Established robust internal controls to ensure regulatory compliance within the operations and pub teams.

Operations Manager 2017-2021

• Managed 12 pubs, restaurants and hotels across London.
• Best Metro and GK area sales and profit performance vs budget for FY 2019.
• Cultivated high-performing general managers by unlocking their full potential.
• Developed one General Manager into an Operations Manager.
• Founding member of the 'Nomad food concept within Metro, our most premium food offering, working closely with Head of Food on growth and evolution.
• Operations lead for sales and marketing within Metro group, overseeing marketing team.
• Designed, developed and chaired our successful annual boat-race festival at The Crabtree, Hammersmith, generating a one day GK net sales record of £77k.

General Manager 2013-2017

• Launched award-winning pub, The Wilmington in Clerkenwell.
• Ranked consistently inside the top 50 London pub restaurants on TA for two consecutive years (out of 22k)
• Set the bar for food and service within hospitality and Metro pubs.
• Metro General Manager of the year 2015.
• Developed four Deputy Managers into General Managers, two Sous Chefs into Head Chefs.
• Wrote and hosted a successful monthly quiz.
• Organised and hosted three charity auctions, raising +£50k for good causes.

General Manager

• The Old Monk Exchange ,Westminster
• The Castle Inn, Hurst.

General Manager

• Henry J Beans Chelsea & Apt 195, Kings Rd (Change of owners - Kornicis)
• Smollensky's Canary Wharf (Change of owners - Food & Drink Group)
• The Puzzle, Horseferry Road (Puzzle Pub Company)

Family Business

• Helped and worked for my father, setting up his own property maintenance company.

General Manager

• The Coach & Horses, Fleet Street, London