Assistant General Manager

Job Overview

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Employment Type

Full-time
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Compensation

Hourly
Range $15.00 - $23.00
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Work Schedule

Standard Hours
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Benefits

competitive salary
Annual review with increase potential
401k program with company match
Additional benefits may be available

Job Description

Arbor Lodging is a prominent hotel investment and management company known for its expansive portfolio that spans across the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. With a reputable track record, the company has secured partnerships and is an approved manager for prestigious hotel brands including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, and IHG. Arbor Lodging prides itself on a proactive and holistic service ethos designed to create environments where guests are genuinely welcomed and supported at every interaction. The company culture is distinctly people-focused, data-driven, and results-oriented, emphasizing growth, development, and progression within its properties.

The Assistant General Manager (GM) position at Arbor Lodging is a dynamic leadership role centered on managing key functional areas such as guest registration, night audits, guest reservations, housekeeping/laundry, and food and beverage services. This role is crucial to ensuring exceptional guest and associate satisfaction while maximizing hotel profitability. The Assistant GM works closely with the General Manager to oversee day-to-day hotel operations, aligning operational goals with financial objectives.

Responsibilities include managing financial operations, maximizing room revenue by anticipating market shifts, and supporting the development of business plans and budgets that steer the hotel's profitability and operational success. The position requires building and maintaining strong guest relationships, monitoring satisfaction levels, and coordinating capital improvement projects to maintain or elevate property standards and protect assets.

This role also involves detailed oversight of the property’s profit and loss (P&L) statements, ensuring accounting principles are correctly applied by the property Controller, and actively participating in hiring, training, and motivating hourly associates. The Assistant GM plays an integral part in monitoring departmental expenses, contributing to revenue programs that optimize room occupancy, average daily rate, and RevPAR objectives. Additional duties include balancing hotel books, preparing audit reports, managing vendor relationships, upholding security requirements, and facilitating effective communication among departments.

Arbor Lodging is committed to upholding its Five Guiding Principles that shape its operational and cultural approach: doing the right thing with integrity, leading with heart through kindness and hospitality, being accountable by taking ownership and delivering results, aiming higher to exceed expectations and pursue innovative change, and celebrating differences by embracing diversity and respecting individual opinions. The company fosters a supportive environment that encourages professional growth and equal employment opportunities in compliance with federal, state, and local non-discrimination laws.

The Assistant GM role is ideal for experienced hospitality professionals seeking to advance their careers within a respected and thriving hotel management company that values leadership, accountability, innovation, and diversity. Arbor Lodging offers competitive salaries with annual review and increase potential, a 401k program with company match, and additional benefits to support employee well-being and job satisfaction.

Job Requirements

  • Degree required - minimum 2-year degree
  • Experience in similar leadership role required
  • Ability to lift up to 40 lbs. with or without reasonable accommodation
  • Ability to bend, reach, or lift as is required in this position

Job Qualifications

  • Be a leader and role model to all associates
  • Degree required - minimum 2-year degree
  • Experience in similar leadership role required
  • Ensure goals are met for all guest service-related measures
  • Maintains Market Share: Hotel at natural rank or higher
  • Possess advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within all hotel disciplines, including experiential knowledge for management of people and complex problems
  • Ability to lift up to 40 lbs. with or without reasonable accommodation
  • Ability to bend, reach, or lift as is required in this position

Job Duties

  • Manages financial components of operations
  • Assists General Manager in day-to-day operations of the hotel
  • Maximizes financial performance and upholds quality standards of F&B and Rooms departments
  • Maximizes room revenue by anticipating market shifts, developing and monitoring annual business and marketing plans, and participating in property sales and marketing efforts
  • Assists with the development of a business plan and a budget that defines operational goals and profitability objectives
  • Builds relationships with guests and monitors satisfaction levels
  • Coordinates capital improvement projects to maintain/upgrade quality standards and property image, and to protect assets from neglect, damage, or deterioration
  • Manages and monitors the property P&L
  • provides detailed explanations for P&L and forecasts variances
  • Aligns and drives all aspects of hotel performance towards the attainment of budgeted Revenue, RevPAR Index, House Profit, Flow Through, Guest Satisfaction Scores and Quality Assurance scores
  • Understands and applies accounting principles (e.g., accruals, prepaids, balancing daily reports, GL coding, etc.) and ensures these are understood and applied correctly by the property Controller
  • Assists with selection, training, counseling, and motivating hourly associates
  • Assists in monitoring the expenses of each departmental budget with the exception of the Sales Department and Maintenance Department
  • Participates in the development of the hotel expense budget
  • Assists hotel management and sales teams with the implementation and execution of revenue programs to ensure that the hotel's room occupancy, average daily rate, and RevPAR objectives are met
  • Balances Hotel books at the end of each period
  • Prepares audit reports for the end of period
  • Sends End of Period reports to Corporate on the due date of each new period
  • Works with individual vendors - making sure services and invoices match
  • getting the best price for supplies
  • Assists in the maintenance of the key control program that is already in place
  • Ensures the security needs of the property and guests are met
  • Ensures effective departmental communication and information systems through logs, department meetings, and hotel meetings
  • The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list
  • additional tasks may be assigned at any given time
  • The scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands

Job Criteria

Experience

Mid Level (3-7 years)


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