Hotel Area Manager

Migis-Hotel-Group; Westbrook (ME); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Migis Hotel Group is seeking a Hotel Area Manager to oversee several properties in Midcoast Maine. This hybrid role requires travel to sites and onboarding new clients, with flexible remote work possible at times.

The candidate should have significant hospitality leadership experience, strong financial and operational acumen, and a proven ability to coach General Managers across multiple properties. This role balances client service with profitability for Migis Hotel Group.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading hospitality operations and driving profitability.
• Experience managing multiple properties and coordinating with ownership groups.
• Strong financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and labor controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee hotel management services across several properties to maximize performance.
• Translate annual financial goals into practical operating plans for each hotel.
• Coach and hold General Managers accountable for property performance.
• Lead property-level financials including budgeting, forecasting, and labor management.
• Train GM teams on workforce planning, compliance, and risk management.
• Review monthly results, identify variances, and implement corrective actions.
• Monitor guest experience, service standards, and overall property performance.
• Act as primary liaison between Migis Hotel Group and property ownership.
• Communicate results, challenges, opportunities, and recommendations clearly.
• Support onboarding of new clients and smooth transitions of properties.
• Support food, beverage, and other outlets profitability where applicable.

Skills

Financial leadership

Operational leadership

GM coaching

Multi-property management

Strategic planning

Communication with owners

Technology literacy

Time management

Risk management

Team leadership

Job description

Migis Hotel Group, a nimble, creativeMaine-based hospitality management services company, has an opening for a HotelArea Manager to oversee several hotels in our portfolio which are located inMidcoast Maine. This is a hybrid position, which can be performed remotely,with travel to Midcoast Maine required at contractually obligated times, and attimes of onboarding new clients, heavily.

JOB SUMMARY:

The HotelArea Manager is responsible for delivering hotel management services to ownerclients, driving strong operational and financial performance at each hotelwhile also protecting the profitability of the management relationship for MHG.This requires balancing multiple priorities to ensure each managementrelationship remains productive and profitable for MHG.

Serving as a key liaison between MHG, hotelleadership and ownership, the Hotel Area Manager monitors performance,identifies risks and opportunities, and provides guidance, training, andaccountability to drive strong results.

This rolealso supports the evaluation of new clients, and importantly, the onboarding ofnew clients, developing resources required to deliver services profitably,perform due diligence, financial forecasting, and manage hotel managementtransitions, including the adoption of new systems and platforms. The person inthis role must be a quick learner and strong process builder, able to quicklyunderstand new client needs and create practical tools, workflows, andresources to support effective transitions.

Success in this position requires strongfinancial judgment, disciplined time management, excellent communication skillsand the ability to balance service delivery across existing clients,prospective clients, and new hotel transitions in a way that supports bothclient success and a profitable management relationship for MHG.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Ensure eachclient relationship supports strong hotel performance while remainingprofitable, productive, and sustainable for MHG.
• Translateannual financial goals into practical operating plans for each hotel.
• Oversee,coach, develop, and hold General Managers accountable for property performance.
• Leadproperty-level financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, labormanagement, expense control, and profitability.
• Train GeneralManagers on workforce planning, employee programs, compliance, facilitiesmaintenance, capital planning, and risk management.
• Reviewmonthly operating results, identify variances, and ensure appropriatecorrective action.
• Monitor guestexperience, service standards, operational compliance, staffing efficiency, andproperty performance.
• Serve as theprimary operational liaison between MHG and property ownership.
• Communicateresults, challenges, opportunities, and recommendations clearly to ownershipand MHG leadership.
• Support newclient evaluation, onboarding, property transitions, and stabilization.
• Support theperformance of food and beverage and other outlets, where applicable, includinglabor, pricing, service standards, and profitability.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Significanthotel, resort, or hospitality operations leadership experience.
• Prior GeneralManager experience is required.
• Prior AreaManager, Regional Operations Manager or comparable above-property leadershipexperience required.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Financialleadership and business judgment.
• Demonstratedproblem-solving skills
• Strongfinancial acumen, including experience with budgets, forecasts, financialstatements, labor controls, and multi-level profitability.
• Demonstratedability to coach, develop, and hold senior leaders accountable.
• Experienceworking with ownership groups, investors, and client stakeholders.
• Technologyacumen, comfort learning new systems, platforms, reporting tools, andhotel-specific processes.
• Strong timemanagement and prioritization across multiple properties and clientrelationships.
• Ability tolead through General Managers and build accountability at the property level.
• Clear,professional communication with owners, executives, property teams, andinternal support departments.
• Ability toidentify risks, solve problems, and move priorities forward.
• Collaborative,adaptable leadership style with a focus on service, performance, andsustainable client relationships.
• Impeccablecommunication and organization.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must beeligible to work in the United States of America
• Must be atleast 18 years of age
• Must be ableto work at a computer for long periods of time
• Some travelto hotel sites is required.
• Work environment willbe a combination of office, remote and on property.
• Evening andweekend work may be required to support business needs and employeerelations matters.

DISCLAIMER

The abovestatements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work beingperformed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustivelist of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required or personnel soclassified. All persons may be requiredto perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time,as needed.