Interim Hotel General Manager
arguably the most iconic collection of historic countryside and city centre
hotels, all wonderful properties set within beautiful grounds and cities, all
with their own stories to share. Generosity, quality, and welcoming hospitality
is what they do very well. Being exceptional hoteliers has been the core of the
operation, creating a successful hospitality business.
Reporting to the CEO, we are looking for an Interim Hotel General Manager to help run the day to day operation, and fulfil the core management tasks at the hotel. This will need someone with hotel management experience, who is flexible, hands on, energetic and able to make competent management decisions, in a timely manner.The role is available on a rolling monthly contract, and would suit someone who is local to the hotel and area, although we are happy to discuss and agree this for any interested candidates not living nearby.
Location: The Imperial Torquay is a magnificent 19th Century 152-bedroom Victorian four-star hotel, and offers breath taking sea views, plus a host of leisure facilities, making it fun and picturesque location to work in.Just a short walk from the main train station and town centre, the hotel is really accessible for our employees.
Some staff car parking is available on site, as is free use of all the hotel's leisure facilities, including our gym and swimming pools.
Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to +44 7782 822774 to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)
Hours: Fixed-term, rolling monthly contract. Full time.
The role- to carry out this role you will need to:
- Be a hotel operator, with a willingness to get stuck in to all areas of the business.
- Be available to work a blend of early mornings, evenings, week days and weekends, depending on the business.
- Lead by example, and manage the team on the floor day to day, motivating them to success.
- Have good commercial and operational awareness- making decisions that make sound business sense.
- Have strong IT skills and be able to use digital platforms well
- Be people focussed and operationally experienced.
- Have previous experience as a hotel General Manager in a similar style property.
To say thank you, we have many perks for all the team:
- Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
- Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
- We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
- We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
- Everyone can learn and develop - our ‘Family First’ development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
- We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
- We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you
About our family of hotels
We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.
Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.
We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk
One click apply to become part of our family that works hard & plays hard too, inspires and supports each other and has a load of fun along the way.