Corporate Beverage Manager

Location: THERAPY on-site, with regular travel to our Khar, Dadar, Powai and Borivali outlets

Experience: 5–8 years

About THERAPY

THERAPY is Mumbai's offline antidote to burnout: an entertainment-first, all-day cafe and cocktail bar where people come to celebrate, cope, or simply breathe. We run outlets in Khar, Dadar, Borivali, Powai and Versova, and we're growing. THERAPY is operated by Rive Hospitality Private Limited, a founder-led hospitality group.

The role

We need a corporate chef, but for the bar. You'll own everything THERAPY pours cocktails, zero-proof drinks, mocktails, coffee, and the experimental side like slushies and frozen serves. You'll invent the recipes, build the menus, and make sure a drink tastes exactly the same in Khar as it does in Powai. You'll working directly with the founder and core team.

What you'll do

Menu and recipe development

• Create and refresh THERAPY's drinks menus across every outlet: cocktails, zero-proof, mocktails, coffee, slushies and frozen drinks.
• Run a steady R&D pipeline idea, tasting, costing, floor trial, launch with seasonal and limited-edition drinks on a set calendar.
• Build house-made components that scale across outlets: syrups, cordials, infusions, batched and clarified cocktails, ferments.
• Keep every menu balanced between crowd favourites, core cocktails, premium serves and signatures.

Coffee is a big part of this role

• Build THERAPY's coffee programme: espresso drinks, cold brew, signature coffees and coffee cocktails.
• Choose beans and roasters with our procurement team, dial in espresso recipes, and set grind, ratio and milk standards for every outlet.
• Train bar teams to pull consistent shots and texture milk properly and keep checking that they do.

Consistency across outlets

• Write a recipe card for every drink: exact measures, method, glassware, ice, garnish and a reference photo. One spec, every outlet.
• Keep every recipe and its cost current in our POS and inventory system, so the right stock is deducted with every drink sold.
• Train and sign off bar teams on every new menu; run regular tasting checks at each outlet and correct drift fast.
• Design prep and batching systems that keep service fast at peak hours without dropping quality.

Costs and performance

• Cost every drink and hit pour-cost targets without compromising taste.
• Use sales data to decide what stays, what changes and what goes.
• Cut wastage with clear prep pars and shelf-life rules for house-made ingredients.
• Work with procurement on ingredient specs, seasonal produce and brand partnerships.

Brand and launches

• Create drinks that feel unmistakably THERAPY bold, playful and great value.
• Set up the bar and opening drinks menu for new outlets.
• Create drinks for events, collaborations and social content.

Who you are

• 4–8 years in bars, cafés or beverage development, including at least 2 years creating menus (head bartender, bar manager, mixologist or similar).
• Strong hands-on coffee skills: espresso dial-in, milk texturing, cold brew and manual brewing. Barista training or SCA certification is a big plus.
• Solid cocktail craft the classics plus modern techniques like clarification, fat-washing, infusions, carbonation and frozen drinks.
• Obsessed with recipe development, and with knowing exactly why a drink works.
• Organised: you write clear specs and systems, train people well, and make standards stick across multiple outlets.
• Comfortable with drink costing and Excel or Google Sheets; POS or inventory system experience is a plus.
• Plugged into drinks trends in India and abroad, with the energy to try something new every month.
• Multi-outlet or chain experience is a plus.

Why THERAPY

• Your recipes on every THERAPY menu, in every outlet.
• Work directly with the founders, with real room to experiment.
• Grow with the brand as we open more outlets.

How to apply

Apply with your CV and, if you have them, links to your work - an Instagram, a menu you created, or photos of your original drinks. Shortlisted candidates will do a practical round: create a cocktail, a zero-proof drink and a coffee for our team.