Grounded in our Purpose to “care for People so they can be their Best,” a Hyatt General Manager is responsible for bringing this Purpose to life through the execution and delivery of the Hyatt brand and brand experiences across all stakeholders: guests, colleagues, customers, owners, and communities.
With passion, care, and a strong work ethic, Hyatt General Managers actively and consistently engage all stakeholders to listen, learn, and lead a diverse team focused on building brand loyalty and cultivating positive guest experiences.
Operations & Business Acumen
- Effectively manage owners’ assets with an on-going focus on maximizing returns and identifying the value proposition that Hyatt delivers as a management company.
- Develop, execute, and evolve a multi-year property level business strategy with focus on brand positioning.
- Maintain and build a positive and effective relationship with the property ownership on behalf of Hyatt.
- Understand and utilize data insights to inform strong business cases for decisions.
- Understand property financials, including departmental P&Ls and provide oversight of ongoing financial reporting, forecasting, and planning.
- Challenge and improve current practices and environment to meet the quality expectation of guests and customers.
- Optimize the overall sales and revenue management strategy to capture growth and deliver long term profitability.
- Maintain a pristine and well-maintained facility to preserve ownership’s asset value.
- Lead the capital planning process and utilization of the owner’s capital to fund property improvements over time.
- Embrace technology and digital initiatives to drive property performance and connectivity to guests and colleagues.
- Ensure the safety of colleagues & guests.
- Ensure property operations, guest service, and commercial offerings are aligned to the brand.
- Practice and promote environmental sustainability.
Experiment to Improve
- Balance the needs and support of the property’s leaders, colleagues, guests, customers, owners, and community reputation.
- Adapt to a changing world and envision new possibilities for generating profit and revenue growth.
- Exhibit sound judgement and decision making.
- Use data in day-to-day problem solving to address underperformance, test ideas, learn and accurately measure impact.
- Balance the efficiency of existing practices with the need to adapt; focus energy to drive change in places where there will be a meaningful financial, operational, colleague, or customer experience impact
- Approach challenges or new opportunities with a test and learn mindset.
Drive Impact
- Articulate a clear, consistent, and effective message when communicating with diverse audiences.
- Execute a strategic vision through property leaders to drive daily tactics and execution.
- Partner with the property’s leadership team to build accountability and achieve shared success.
- Quickly recognize and act on critical feedback from customers and colleagues.
- Take initiative to fix systems and processes that aren’t working well quickly and eliminate barriers to delivering a seamless and caring experience to guests, members, and customers.
- Build a collaborative environment with open, clear, cross-functional communication and engagement to drive the business forward.
- Plan and lead in a proactive way, even if situations are ambiguous, stressful, or unexpected situations.
Develop Talent
- Execute Hyatt’s talent agenda and processes to recruit, hire, develop, retain, and motivate an inclusive workforce.
- Support colleagues in understanding their role as brand ambassadors so they can deliver authentic and caring service to customers and guests.
- Delegate skillfully and allow others to develop alternative ways of accomplishing work.
- Coach, mentor, and develop future leaders for Hyatt.
- Find targeted development assignments for promising talent, including opportunities that cross functional boundaries.
- Serve as a leader in the community by engaging and collaborating with local business partners while maintaining a positive brand reputation.
- Build a strong talent pipeline.
- Measure and improve colleague engagement.
Champions Hyatt’s Purpose & Culture
- Promote and role model Hyatt`s values (empathy, integrity, respect, inclusion, experimentation, and wellbeing).
- Truly listen to others (both colleagues and guests), imagine their experience with empathy, and respond with compassion.
- Cultivate an inclusive workplace rooted in fairness and respect where all colleagues feel valued for who they are and are encouraged to actively participate in their property’s culture and success.
- Help colleagues and people leaders balance competing demands and prioritize self-care so they can be their best selves.
- Be open and honest and treat others with appreciation.
- Demonstrate open-mindedness and embrace a range of perspectives.
- Maintain the highest level of ethical conduct as expected by all stakeholders.
- Current General Manager with 2-3 years of experience is preferred.
- Select Service operations experience is preferred.
- Sales and Revenue experience is a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with: Ownership, Corporate; hotel's management, colleagues, clients and vendors.
- Bi-lingual - Spanish and English - written and oral communication is required.