Inn Manager- Fogo Island Inn

Fogo Island Inn; Newfoundland; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Employee discounts

Tech tools provided

Collaborative environment

Social enterprise

Professional development

Job summary

Relais & Châteaux’s Fogo Island Inn seeks a senior Inn Manager to oversee the financial and administrative backbone, sustaining hospitality excellence on a remote island. You will lead a high-performing team, partner with senior operations and finance, and ensure strict budgeting, compliance, and guest experience standards.

This role requires a steady, compassionate leader who can drive cost discipline, manage shared services, and build community trust while guiding day-to-day decisions with

Qualifications

• Proven management experience in hospitality or inn management.
• Financial literacy and operational discipline with budgeting and variance reporting.
• Experience owning regulatory compliance and OH&S obligations in hospitality or building operations.
• Strong people leadership with capability development.
• Emotional intelligence, maturity, and decisive yet humble leadership.
• Calm under pressure with sound decision-making.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries with staff and senior leaders.
• Discretion with sensitive information and HR matters.
• Genuine connection to community-rooted organizations and place-based hospitality.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial and administrative backbone of the Inn.
• Track operating spending against budget and flag variances.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting with department directors.
• Champion revenue targets with the team.
• Oversee purchasing and expense approvals with record-keeping.
• Serve as the primary liaison with accounting and ensure accurate reporting.
• Manage and develop the Inn's leadership team.
• Oversee HR processes, onboarding, and performance conversations.
• Maintain quality standards and monitor guest experience metrics.
• Coordinate with shared services and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Hospitality leadership

Budgeting

Team development

Regulatory compliance

OH&S

Communications

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

WHO WE ARE

Fogo Island Inn sits on an island off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. It is owned by Shorefast, a registered charity of Canada; the beneficiary of its success is the Fogo Island community. Every decision at the Inn, from how we hire to what we serve to who we work with, is made in relationship to this place and the people who call it home.

The Inn is widely recognized as a pioneer of regenerative and community-based hospitality: a working demonstration that tourism, when it is rooted in place and operated with integrity, can strengthen rather than extract from the communities it touches. It is a member of Relais & Châteaux and one of only two Three Key MICHELIN properties in Canada.

Learn more about us: fogoislandinn.ca

The Opportunity

This is a senior leadership role reporting to the COO, with accountability for the operational and financial backbone of the Inn: the team, the systems, the administrative functions, and the day-to-day decisions that keep everything running well.

Own the financial and administrative backbone

• Track operational spending against budget across departments, flagging variances to the COO proactively
• Partner with senior operations and finance leads on annual budgeting and forecasting, working with department directors to compile accurate cost inputs
• Champion the Inn’s revenue targets with the team, ensuring broad awareness of targets across departments
• Oversee purchasing and expense approval processes: approvals followed, records current, efficiencies realized, waste minimized
• Serve as the primary business liaison with accounting, ensuring accurate financial reporting and reconciliation

Manage the team

• Be a visible, accessible, and steady presence for the Inn’s department directors and their teams
• Hold directors accountable to their areas while supporting their development as leaders
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, performance conversations, and the people decisions that shape the Inn’s team over time
• Work with HR on people matters ensuring processes are followed, documentation is in order, and the team is set up well from the start
• Model the standard: composed under pressure, honest in feedback, generous with recognition

Hold operational responsibility

• Keep senior leadership informed on material issues, opportunities, or decisions, particularly anything with business, guest, or community impact
• Work in close coordination with department directors on scheduling, vendor relationships, and maintenance readiness
• Support the hospitality lead on the guest-facing side when the situation calls for it, stepping in with composure and good judgment

Uphold quality standards

• Maintain working knowledge of the Inn’s quality benchmarks and ensure the operational conditions are in place to support and sustain them
• Track guest experience metrics and flag trends to senior leadership; operational gaps that affect the guest experience are the Inn Manager’s to identify and address
• Conduct regular walkthroughs with an eye to standard, maintenance issues, and anything that falls short of what the Inn promises

Connect across shared services

• Be the Inn’s main point of connection to shared services, ensuring the Inn’s needs are clearly represented and consistently followed up on
• Hold accountability for the Inn’s regulatory and compliance obligations such as licensing, health and safety, water testing, fire safety, and other requirements that govern the building and its operation
• Keep senior leadership connected to shared services so that information flows both ways and nothing gets lost between departments
• Proactively flag emerging needs (facilities, staff housing, payroll or benefits issues, financial reporting requirements) before they become urgent
• Close the loop: ensure that requests to and from shared services are tracked, acknowledged, and resolved

Qualifications and Experience

• Proven management experience in hospitality or inn management: you have run an operation, managed a team, and hold real accountability for outcomes
• Financial literacy and operational discipline: comfortable with budgets, tracking, variance reporting, and making decisions with financial implications
• Demonstrated experience owning regulatory compliance and OH&S obligations in a hospitality or building operations context
• Strong people leadership: you develop the people around you, hold them to a standard, and are known for building capable teams
• Emotional intelligence and maturity: confident and decisive, yet humble; you read people and situations well, and you know when to act and when to hold
• Calm under pressure; you make good calls when a lot is happening and help others stay steady
• The ability to work across organizational boundaries without losing your footing: equally at ease with a team member, a department director, or a senior leader
• Discretion with sensitive information: HR matters, financial data, organizational decisions
• A genuine feel and respect for community-rooted organizations: you understand that an inn on a small island operates differently from a city hotel, and that difference is part of what draws you here
• A genuine connection to, or deep curiosity about, Fogo Island and what Shorefast is building
• Understanding of, or alignment with, the values behind place-based enterprise and community-minded hospitality
• Must be eligible to work in Canada and live on/relocate to Fogo Island
• Must have a valid driver’s license

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Health and dental benefits, along with access to an employee assistance program
• Team member discounts within our businesses (Fogo Island Inn and Fogo Island Workshops)
• The technology necessary to complete your work, along with a cellphone plan
• An engaged, highly supportive, and collaborative environment that encourages creativity and curiosity
• The opportunity to work in a thriving social enterprise
• Continued learning and professional development training