June, 2022 - Madison Mayfair I Hospitality Recruitment Specialists

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Our client is one of the largest privately held hospitality organisations in the world, with almost 500 hotels across three continents and has formed strategic alliances with many of the world’s largest hotel brands.

They now have a vacancy for a General Manager to join one of their properties in London.

Reporting to the Cluster General Manager this is an opportunity to join a company that is known for its successes throughout Europe and to be part of the continued drive for exceptional service and increasing profitability.

Main duties:

To be responsible for the dynamic operation of all the hotel operational departments, ensuring facilities are kept to exceptional standards required
To drive profitability in the hotel through ensuring premium rota efficiency and thorough control of all operational cost areas
To ensure the hotel team are fully trained to the expected elevated level and all direct reports are fully in line with the same goal
To drive the hotel revenue by leading the Managers and team members with the goal of safeguarding all upsell potentials and revenue streams are captured
Take a pro-active approach to ensuring the continued long-term success of the Hotel

Essential skills & qualifications:

Director of Operations/Hotel Manager experience with internationally branded hotel groups, minimum 3 years’ experience as Director of Operations/Hotel Manager in a comparable size hotel
Commercially oriented individual with strong revenue skills
Proven track record in delivering consistent and high level of customer service throughout hotel
Strong business management acumen in both revenue and cost controls
Strong facilitator and driver of engagement within the hotel team
Proven leadership skills involving the ability to manage, develop and motivate a head of department team to achieve their objectives
A positive hands-on approach
Proactive, independent, decisive
Strong problem solving

Candidates should be able to legally work in the UK.

For more information or to apply, please contact Guy at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1180

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Our client is the is one of the largest private property companies in Europe and an expert and highly active hotel investor with a worldwide investment and development programme.

They now have a vacancy at one of their resort properties for a Managing Director who will be charged with formulating and driving the strategy and operations of the Hotel Leisure Facilities, Accommodation, Elite Sport, and Meeting & Events space to ensure sustainable financial growth, guest and member satisfaction and elevated levels of team engagement.

Key objectives of the role include:

To ensure business targets for membership, revenue, occupancy, and profit achieve or exceed budget and effectively manage the cost elements of the income statement
Accountable for appropriate governance and compliance with legal requirements and achieving optimum audit scores in all H&S, food hygiene and licensing audits
Adheres to national and local business laws and regulations, company policies and requirements including PCI compliance and GDPR
Develop the business case for any Capex and project manage delivery of the works agreed to time and budget
To provide clear leadership and maintain a shared vision of success for the commercial, operational, and business support functions.
Create a cohesive and high-performance management team that continuously strives for positive performance results and improvements, and is adept at crisis management
Monitoring guest and member feedback and holding the management team accountable for meeting the needs of customers and delivering high quality service in addition to addressing any service failures that arise
Ensuring operational departments are running efficiently and effectively with a focus on optimising revenue, effective cost control, achieving customer satisfaction and the delivery of high operational standards.

Key Skills & Qualifications

History of building high performance teams
Seasoned leadership professional from the membership and hotel market
History of building strong team engagement
The ability to balance costs within a seasonal work force
Proven experience of driving financial/commercial performance across complex leisure products
In-depth hotel sector experience, with an Operational, Finance or Commercial background
P&L responsibility for a resort/hotel
Proven history setting and reviewing KPI’s, understanding budgets and forecasts and ability to challenge performance results
Financially astute with strong analytical skills
Experience with major Capex projects, feasibilities, control, review, and monitoring

Highly desirable skills and qualifications

A proven history in delivering outstanding results as a Managing Director (or very experienced GM)
A hospitality-related degree or diploma, such as restaurant and hotel management
Managed complex settings outside towns and cities
Experience working for a major hotel group/ Owner

For more information or to apply, please contact Guy at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1180

Month: June 2022

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