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General Manager, Paris

Posted on by katherine

We are currently looking for a General Manager for an internationally branded hotel which is located at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

As General Manager, this individual will be responsible for delivering the annual budget through agreed commercial strategies. Candidates should have successful experience in managing all the key business functions required of a GM, including operations, finance, sales, revenue and e-commerce – all in an upscale/luxury branded environment.  A hands-on operator with strong people management skills driving employee engagement and delivering the highest levels of customer service.

Candidate Requirements

  • A highly experienced General Manager with internationally branded hotel groups, minimum 3 years’ experience as General Manager in a medium or large hotel
  • Previous career experience working in a branded city centre or airport property
  • A strong understanding of sales and marketing, revenue and e-commerce
  • Excellent organisational and planning skills
  • Proven leadership skills involving the ability to manage, develop and motivate a strong executive team to achieve their objectives
  • A positive and motivated hands-on approach
  • Fluent English and French speaker
  • Experience in positively managing a unionized workforce
  • Proven track record in client negotiations and account strategizing
  • Degree qualification – not essential but desirable

For more information or to apply, please contact Guy Lean at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 208 600 1180

Please note that due to the expected level of response, it will only be possible to contact candidates who have the relevant and required level of experience.

General Manager, Dusseldorf

Posted on by katherine

We have a fantastic opportunity to join an international company that is famed for its success throughout Europe and to be part of the continuing drive for exceptional service and increasing profitability.

The position of General Manager at one of their properties in Dusseldorf is a senior leadership role and offers a superb opportunity to continue the success of the hotel in the city.

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a candidate who will be responsible for the dynamic operations of the hotel. Someone who can ensure the hotel team are fully trained to the expected elevated level and that all direct reports are fully in line with the same goal. The successful candidate will drive profitability in the hotel through ensuring thorough control of all operational cost areas and in turn drive the hotel revenue by leading the Managers and team members with the goal of safeguarding all upsell potentials and revenue streams.

Candidate Requirements

  • A highly commercially driven General Manager
  • Seasoned and experienced GM with the maturity to manage the complexity of the dynamic product offering
  • Experience with internationally branded hotels who has knowledge of both rooms and food & beverage
  • Degree or equivalent qualification, ideally in a hospitality discipline
  • Exceptional networking skills to be seen as a true leader in the city and build genuine relationships
  • Fluent in German and English

For more information or to apply, please contact Guy Lean at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 208 600 1180

Please note that due to the expected level of response, it will only be possible to contact candidates who have the relevant and required level of experience.

 

General Manager – Italian Resort

Posted on by katherine

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who is ambitious to grow and establish themselves with a company that is known for its successes throughout Europe. This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong leader to become General Manager of a unique spa resort in a stunning Tuscan destination.

The property is well-established on the Italian Market and the objective will be to expand its presence within the international markets to drive higher ADR. It is a truly special property with unique selling points offering guests the opportunity to experience a thermal spa like no other.

Candidate Requirements

  • Experience as a General Manager in luxury, 5star spa hotels & resorts
  • International brand experience
  • Fluent English and Italian speaker
  • Strong knowledge of the Italian market
  • Action oriented and drives for results
  • A strong understanding of commercial functions, sales and marketing, revenue
  • Proven leadership skills involving the ability to manage, develop and motivate a strong executive team to achieve their objectives
  • Proven track record in client negotiations and account strategising
  • Degree qualification

For more information or to apply, please contact Mara at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1169

General Manager – Luxury Boat, France

Posted on by katherine

Our client has been a pioneer of exceptional luxury travel since 1976. Its portfolio extends across 24 countries with 46 remarkable properties. From trains to river barges, safari lodges to hotels, each unique property has a distinctive story, personality and identity, with a personalised team to match.

They are now seeking a General Manager to head up their fleet of luxury barges operating in Burgundy, Champagne and Provence. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader with a passion for excellence and storytelling in travel, a strong cultural awareness and an unswerving approach to maintaining standards. The ideal candidate will embrace and deliver the vision of the company, be responsible for strategic planning, efficient operations and leadership ensuring that the service standards and profitability are maintained along with upholding the brand strategy of being the number one luxury travel experience in the world.

Requirements:

  • Extensive knowledge and exposure to the luxury travel sector – both locally and internationally
  • Ability to interact and build relationships with the local community and returning guests
  • Ability/experience to create new excursions and activities for our guests. Experience of consistently driving Excellence and reaching LQA targets
  • Proud Custodian of Culture & Product – fits with the product positioning, infrastructure, and locally connected (or able to do so)
  • A pioneering mindset, looking to improve one’s-self and the property
  • Striving for Excellence with an ability to translate manifestos into reality and to create innovative concepts as property differentiators

 Essential Skills and Qualifications:

  • Relevant senior level experience within the luxury hospitality industry
  • Fluent French and English speaker
  • An impeccable eye for detail with an unswerving approach to standards in order to consistently reach Excellence
  • Financial acumen and commercially focused
  • Ability to manage operations in multiple locations

 Highly Desirable Skills and Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of culinary arts
  • A business and/or hospitality related qualification (BA/MBA)

To apply, please contact Mara at mm@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1169

Due to the expected level of response, it will only be possible to contact candidates who have the relevant and required level of experience.

General Manager, London – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

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

General Manager, Paris – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

Our client is a leading European hospitality investment and management platform, who now have a fantastic opportunity for a strong leader to be General Manager of a newly converted internationally branded property in the highly desirable St Germain area of Paris.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a passionate General Manager who has the skill set and experience to drive the business forward and effectively lead an energetic and standards-driven team, with the objective to create a lifestyle hotel recognised in the city as the ‘place to be seen’. The successful candidate will have strong business and commercial acumen with a genuine passion for exemplary service.  This individual will thrive working autonomously but in a collaborative way with the senior leadership team.

Experience required:

  • Pre -opening experience either as a GM or Head of department
  • An experienced General Manager (or Hotel Manager) with lifestyle and on trend hotels
  • A GM with both rooms and F&B experience
  • Proven record of recruiting hiring and retaining talent (to a team of 30-45 employees)
  • P&L responsibility
  • Current or earlier experience working in France
  • Fluent in English and French
  • Proven record setting and reviewing KPI’s, budgets and forecasts and ability to challenge performance
  • Strong leader able to deliver agreed strategy and improvements across the business
  • Initiative-taker, capable of handling multi-faceted projects whilst working under pressure
  • Experience with Capex projects

 

General Manager, Dresden – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an international company that is famed for its successes throughout Europe and to be part of the continuing drive for exceptional service and increasing profitability.

The position of General Manager  is a senior leadership role and offers a great opportunity to continue the success of the hotel in the city. The hotel currently sits as the number one in STR and its competitive set. This individual will be directly responsible for the entire operation which has a large and complex F&B function. The property also has a wellness centre with over 400 members. The production kitchen is at the heart of the hotel and produces all the highest quality food to the highly competitive food outlets.

Candidate Requirements

  • Seasoned and experienced GM with the maturity to manage the complexity of the dynamic product offering
  • An F&B professional who has managed multiple outlets and can react quickly to the “pulse” of the city
  • Exceptional networking skills to be seen as a true leader in the city and build genuine relationships on a regular basis
  • Fluent in German

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

General Manager, Kuwait – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

Our client is private owner and operator with a diverse portfolio of businesses.

This organisation owns and operates one of the most respected luxury hotels in the country of Kuwait and now has an opportunity for an international hotelier to continue the growth of this luxury hotel. During the pandemic the hotel managed to stand strong and delivered outstanding results by gaining significantly within the market share. The General Manager would continue to promote this growth and in turn make it profitable for the owners.

Reporting to the CEO of the hotel division, candidates should have the following skills and qualifications:

  • International profile: you are likely to have worked across Europe and the Middle East with a demonstrable success working for well-respected international 5 star hotels
  • Success leading a 5-star hotel in a major gateway city in the GCC as Hotel Manager, Resident Manager or General Manager
  • P&L experience – either as a Resident Manager reporting to a cluster or as a General Manager
  • Able to demonstrate moving the quality and guest service dial in a luxury hotel
  • Track record operating successfully in well respected 5 star hotels – the client is specifically seeking candidates with a combination of international hotel group and smaller luxury groups
  • A hospitality-related degree or diploma, such as restaurant and hotel management
  • Outstanding communication skills with fluency in English, Arabic is an asset but not a must.

For more information or to apply, please email mm@madisonmayfair.com

Please note that due to the expected level of response, it will only be possible to contact candidates who have the relevant and required level of experience.

General Manager, Florence – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong leader to be General Manager of an iconic property within a 10-minute walk to the city centre of Florence.

The property is currently closed following an acquisition in March 2021 and will undergo a full refurbishment. The targeted reopening will be September 2022 and will create an exciting project for an experienced General Manager to focus on the rebranding and repositioning of the hotel in the marketplace.

Essential skills and qualifications

  • An experienced General Manager with minimum 5 years’ experience as a General Manager in a Internationally branded hotel
  • International brand experience
  • Fluent English and Italian speaker
  • Strong knowledge of the Italian market
  • A strong understanding of commercial functions, sales and marketing, revenue
  • Excellent organizational and planning skills
  • Proven leadership skills involving the ability to manage, develop and motivate a strong executive team to achieve their objectiv

Highly desirable skills and qualifications

  • Previous experience working in Florence
  • Preopening and repositioning experience
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Degree qualification

For more information or to apply, please contacct Guy at guylean@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1182

General Manager, Swindon – Position Filled

Posted on by katherine

This job opening has now been filled. Please check our latest job opportunities here

This is a super opportunity for a strong leader to be General Manager of a high performing 4 star hotel in Swindon.

One of the most exciting prospects for the new General Manager will be to focus several Capex projects planned for the property, you will need both good “out of the box thinking” and great presentation skills to work with the owners to approve the changes.
We are seeking a well-rounded, entrepreneurial individual to drive the commercial outcomes and strategic agenda of this well known internationally branded property. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a passionate General Manager who has the skill set and experience to drive the business forward and effectively lead an energetic and standards-driven team.

The successful candidate will have a strong business and commercial acumen with a genuine passion for exemplary service. This individual will thrive working autonomously but in a collaborative way with the senior leadership team. In conclusion – an operational business leader of the hotel with responsibility for all aspects of the operation, including guest and employee engagement, financial performance, sales and revenue generation, staff development and talent retention, and delivering a return on investment to property ownership.

Required experience:

  • Experienced General Manager with a knowledge of Internationally branded hotels
  • A GM with both rooms and F&B experience
  • Proven track record of recruiting hiring and retaining talent
  • P&L responsibility
  • Fluent in English
  • Proven track record setting and reviewing KPI’s, budgets and forecasts and ability to challenge performance
  • Strong leader able to deliver agreed strategy and improvements across the business
  • Self-starter, capable of handling multi-faceted projects whilst working under pressure
  • Experience creating and implementing F&B projects

For more information or to apply, please contact Guy Lean at guylean@madisonmayfair.com or call on +44 20 8600 1182

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