General Manager

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The Daish’s Group was founded in 1979 and is a family run business operating predominantly in the short break Coaching sector, providing holidays to varying age groups depending on the season. The company has grown substantially over the last few years and now includes ten hotels strategically spread across England and Wales, and is complimented by its own fleet of luxury coaches.
Established as providing probably the best value for money holidays in our market, Daish’s has picked up numerous industry awards, and has made both the Chancellor’s and Financial Times lists for inspiring and fastest growing companies in the last few years.
The Role:
Our majestic Esplanade hotel in Scarborough, is looking to engage a General Manager to welcome into our management team, for an immediate start. General Managers are the face of each Hotel, and are responsible for ensuring the delivery of our core values; clean and comfortable en-suite accommodation, good food, great live nightly entertainment and first class friendly customer service. You will be able to relate and manage procedures at the front end delivery into coordinated back of house processes, to ensure a smoother guest experience, and enhance our brand and revenue.
The role is a full time and will include some split shifts to cover the key demand periods and to ensure the smooth operation of all aspects of the hotel.
You’ll assume full responsibility for the running of the hotel including close monitoring and controls on cost to ensure hitting P&L targets, and managing the staff team to ensure the hotels smooth operation, and full compliance responsibility.
Key Skills of the General Manager:

• Previous experience within the leisure or tourism industry.
• A drive and passion for the holiday industry and customer service.
• Demonstrate an ability to manage and motivate a dedicated team to deliver our core values
• Adaptability is key as the role has a wide range of responsibilities and you’ll need to be as comfortable at calling Bingo as you will compliance and budgeting.
• Previous experience of managing and working within budgets
• Maintenance and capital investment planning to improve the product
• Ability to handle HR issues in line with company policy
• You’ll be hands on with a ‘can do’ attitude as you’ll be expected to lead from the front.

Benefits
The many benefits of working for the group include joining a dedicated, friendly group of like-minded people, as well as a competitive salary and 28 days annual leave, and discounted breaks at our venues. You’ll be joining a fast paced and growing organisation which values good ideas and the sharing of best practice, to achieve a common goal and continue our success even in these unprecedented times.
If passion and ambition is something you thrive upon then we would love to hear from you, so plrease upload your CV and any other relevant information and if selected we will have an initial telephone interview, followed up, if successful by a face to face meeting with a senior member of our team.

Job Type: Permanent