General Manager

Job summary

Lead an upscale or luxury lifestyle hotel in Toronto, overseeing full-service operations and delivering a distinctive guest experience shaped by the hotel's design, culture, food and beverage, and local connections. Manage financial performance, owner and stakeholder relationships, brand standards, and the development of a high-performing leadership team.

Job details

GENERAL MANAGER | UPSCALE / LUXURY LIFESTYLE HOTEL | TORONTO NOW RECRUITING ACROSS CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES HMS Careers Inc. is recruiting an experienced General Manager to lead an upscale/luxury lifestyle hotel in Toronto, Canada. PLEASE READ THE EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS BEFORE APPLYING This position requires direct General Manager experience within an upscale or luxury LIFESTYLE hotel environment. Applicants whose General Manager experience is primarily select-service, limited-service or traditional branded hotel operations without relevant lifestyle hotel experience will not be considered. We are looking for a General Manager who understands the lifestyle segment and has successfully led a property where the guest experience, design, culture, food and beverage, local connection and overall personality of the hotel are integral to the brand. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE ✔ Previous General Manager experience in an upscale or luxury lifestyle hotel ✔ Demonstrated lifestyle hotel leadership experience ✔ Strong full-service hotel operations background ✔ Strong Food & Beverage leadership experience ✔ Proven P&L, budgeting, forecasting and revenue management experience ✔ Strong owner relations and stakeholder management ✔ Proven success building and developing high-performing leadership teams ✔ Experience delivering strong guest satisfaction, financial performance and brand standards HIGHLY DESIRABLE ✔ Hilton experience ✔ Major international luxury or lifestyle hotel brand experience ✔ Toronto/GTA hotel market experience ✔ Union environment experience 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 CANADIAN & AMERICAN CANDIDATES WELCOME 📍 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada We welcome applications from qualified General Managers currently residing in Canada or the United States. Canadian work permit support is available for qualified American candidates. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Toronto. INTERESTED? Please apply only if your background includes relevant General Manager experience within the upscale or luxury lifestyle hotel segment. If that's your background, I'd be very interested in speaking with you. Qualified candidates are invited to submit their résumé directly to: Keith Bennitz President | HMS Careers Inc. 📧 keith@hmscareers.com Referrals of qualified lifestyle hotel General Managers are always welcome. #GeneralManager #HotelGeneralManager #LifestyleHotels #LuxuryLifestyle #LuxuryHotels #UpscaleHotels #BoutiqueHotels #LuxuryHospitality #HotelLeadership #HospitalityLeadership #TorontoHotels #TorontoJobs #HospitalityJobs #HotelCareers #ExecutiveSearch #HospitalityRecruitment #HiltonHotels #FullServiceHotels #HotelOperations #FoodAndBeverage #CanadianHospitality #USHospitality #HospitalityExecutives #HiringNow

What you’ll do

Lead an upscale or luxury lifestyle hotel in Toronto, overseeing full-service operations and delivering a distinctive guest experience shaped by the hotel's design, culture, food and beverage, and local connections. Manage financial performance, owner and stakeholder relationships, brand standards, and the development of a high-performing leadership team.

Requirements

Candidates must have direct General Manager experience in an upscale or luxury lifestyle hotel, along with strong full-service operations and food and beverage leadership experience. They must demonstrate expertise in profit and loss management, budgeting, forecasting, revenue management, owner relations, team development, guest satisfaction, and brand standards; Hilton, international luxury or lifestyle brand, Toronto market, and union experience are desirable.

Listed skills

• Budgeting · Preferred
• Forecasting · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Lifestyle Hotel Leadership
• Full-Service Hotel Operations
• Food And Beverage Leadership
• Profit And Loss Management
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Revenue Management
• Owner Relations
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership Team Development
• Guest Satisfaction
• Financial Performance
• Brand Standards
• Hotel Operations

Job areas

• Hospitality
• Management & Leadership
• Food & Beverage