Senior Sommelier, Supernormal Melbourne

Develop your passion for wine while advancing your career! Take on a new role and a new challenge, with a new team of wine professionals.

In the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, Supernormal is a multi-award-winning venue and the brainchild of critically acclaimed Australian restaurateur, Andrew McConnell. Supernormal’s menu reflects McConnell’s five-year stretch heading up kitchens in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and deftly combines elements of Japanese, Korean and Chinese cuisine with the best in seasonal local produce.

As Senior Sommelier, you’ll work alongside industry leaders in a hands-on, fast-paced, and creative role. You’ll help shape our beverage culture, train and lead the team, manage stock, and deliver exceptional guest experiences - all while enjoying a flexible roster and career progression. 

What we offer:

• Work within one of Melbourne's most dynamic beverage programs

• Collaborate with passionate hospitality professionals

• An attractive salary and tips paid weekly

• Internal promotions – develop and grow with us

• Flexible roster with a mix of day and night shifts across 7 days

• Innovative and engaging training programs across service, food and beverage, operations, finance, wellbeing, management systems and people & culture

• Your creative input is encouraged – have a say in the future of the business

• Support and training to recruit, train and develop your own team

• An existing team that is established, yet eager to learn

• Access to WSET training with our Beverage Director and Gourmet Traveller’s 2020 Sommelier of the year, Leanne Altmann

• Dynamic team environment where knowledge and experience is shared

• The opportunity to work alongside respected industry leaders

• Access to our Employee Assistance Program - a free counselling service to support your emotional and psychological wellbeing
  

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 3 years in wine buying or senior sommelier roles, ideally in restaurants of a similar calibre

• Enthusiasm to build relationships in service with our community of guests

• A trained and astute palate with sound fault analysis, open to wine styles both classic and contemporary

• Formal qualifications such as WSET, Court of Master Sommeliers or equivalent knowledge are highly valued; curiosity essential

• Deep and broad knowledge across Australian and international wine regions, and producers benchmark and emerging

• A talent for discovering expressive, distinctive wines that excite both seasoned collectors and curious newcomers.

• An understanding of the commercial contribution of the beverage program and the levers that ultimately drive its success

• Knowledge that can comfortably guide guests through the great wines, vineyards and regions of the world

• A service-driven ethos with an eye for detail whose passion and charming service offers an exceptional experience to our guests 
  

We genuinely love hospitality, and all that goes with it. You’re not in the office all day, you're hands-on: creating, training, engaging, tasting, laughing, inspiring. This role will immerse you in all aspects of shaping a successful business, with room for personality and passion. 

This position is a long-term engagement. Senior members of the beverage team work together closely - both in venue and with the broader team in Melbourne - and our strength comes from support and community. Trader House looks within for talent to help build new opportunities, and there are always exciting, interesting and challenging projects on the horizon. 

About Trader House:

Trader House is a collection of Melbourne and Brisbane’s most distinctive restaurants, bars and specialty food stores, led by chef, author and columnist Andrew McConnell and photographer Jo McGann.

Our Melbourne venues include Gimlet, Côte Basque, Apollo Inn, Cutler, Supernormal, Cumulus Inc., Marion, Builders Arms Hotel, Meatsmith and Morning Market—with Stokehouse, St Kilda joining the group in October 2026. In Brisbane, you’ll find Supernormal and Bar Miette.

Join a team shaping Australia’s hospitality culture across exceptional venues, each with its own identity and a shared commitment to great food, genuine service and memorable experiences.

If you’re a sommelier or waiter who relishes a challenge, or you know one who does, please get in touch.

Needless to say, it’s confidential.

Email your cover letter and CV to ••••@supernormal.net.au