- Provide day to day leadership driving the business strategy in all areas of the operation
- Drive sales and revenue, balancing costs against these so that we meet our business targets
- Be charismatic and engaging and people centric- they will always knows what's going on with the team
- Have good commercial skills and awareness- making decisions that make sound business sense.
- Know how to analyse and manage the hotel PnL to success.
- Have strong IT skills and be able to use digital platforms well
- Develop and lead the people culture of the property with engaging and committed communication.
- Work well with the central support teams, implementing group strategies whilst also driving local activity to make the hotel great
- Have previous experience as a hotel General Manager in a similar style property. Our GM's meet at least twice a year in person and also have fortnightly calls- so there is always an opportunity to ask questions, get support and find out what is going on across the business.
- Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
- 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 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.
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General Manager - Canterbury, United Kingdom - Andrew Brownsword hotels
Description
The Brownsword Group has createdarguably the most iconic collection of historic countryside and city centrehotels, all wonderful properties set within beautiful grounds and cities, allwith their own stories to share. Generosity, quality, and welcoming hospitalityis what they do very well. Being exceptional hoteliers has been the core of theoperation, creating a successful hospitality business.
Reporting to the Regional General Manager, we are now looking for a General Manager to lead our hotel and it's team to success. We're looking for a leader, someone who knows running a hotel is about the guests and the team, as well as the finances. We want someone who will coach and develop our people, whilst delivering great service across the operation and achieving the hotel's commercial goals.
Location : ABode Canterbury is a stylish, four AA star 72-bedroom boutique hotel on Canterbury High Street, which houses our own restaurant brand, Brasserie ABode.
For the commuters, Canterbury East and West train stations are just a few minutes' walk away.
SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £115 a month (around £1375 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.
Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to to find out more, chat to us and apply
Hours : Full time
Bonus: We have a General Manager bonus scheme at all our hotels- we'll let you know all about this and GM perks and benefits at the interview
The role- our next General will:
To say thank you, we have many perks :
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