Operations Manager

Aloft Hotels; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Downtown parking included

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Aloft Hotels is seeking a Director of Operations to lead hotel-wide operations and drive profitability at our Denver property. You will oversee guest services, housekeeping, maintenance, and front-of-house functions, while directing the management team to ensure consistency with brand standards and financial targets.

Responsibilities include optimizing revenue, implementing staffing plans, controlling costs, and maintaining high guest satisfaction, safety, and compliance with corporate policies.

Qualifications

• Hotel Operations experience required.
• Three to Five years of Management experience required.
• Knowledge of loyalty programs, brand standards and hospitality industry systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, direct, and manage hotel operations to achieve maximum profitability, ensure guest satisfaction, protect financial assets, and maintain the building.
• Work with Management Team to manage all property activities including employees, maintenance, sales, and profit/loss controls.
• Maximize hotel revenues through up-sell programs, occupancy strategies, and outlet revenues.
• Set quarterly goals for each department and monitor progress toward them.
• Ensure service and product quality standards are met across all hotel areas.

Skills

Leadership

Customer relations

Communication skills

Budgetary analysis

Independent work

Education

High school or equivalent

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Windows OS

MS Office

PMS

PBX

POS

Job description

Additional Information

Job Number 26129073

Job Category Rooms & Guest Services Operations

Location 800 15th Street, DENVER CO 80202, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule Full Time

Located Remotely? N

Position Type Management

Pay Range: $60,000 - $65,000 annually

Expiration Date 11/20/2026

Additional Information: This hotel is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, Azul Hospitality Group. The franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from Marriott International, Inc. The franchisee solely controls all aspects of the hotel’s employment policies and practices, including hiring, firing, discipline, staffing, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you accept a position at this hotel, you will be employed by a franchisee and not by Marriott International, Inc.

POSITION PURPOSE

To manage the Hotel Operations by developing and implementing strategies and services which not only meet, but rather exceed the needs of guests, staff members and owners. The Director of Operations will support multiple functional areas throughout the hotel.

Essential Responsibilities

• Coordinate, direct, and manage the hotel operations to achieve maximum profitability, ensure guest satisfaction, protect the financial assets of the business, and maintain the building.
• Work directly with the hotel's Management Team to manage all activities of the property including employees, maintenance, sales, and profit/loss controls, as well as working to ensure the hotel is maximizing profitability.
• Maximizes hotel revenues through up-sell program, occupancy strategies, and outlet revenues.
• Set quarterly goals for each department and monitor the progress towards achieving these goals.
• Ensure that service and product quality standards are met in all areas of the hotel.
• Maintain standards of guest services and a consistent positive guest experience.
• Oversee the Guest Service program - responding to guest needs, adjusting, liaison between brand GSS and property.
• Ensure that all staff duties are completed in accordance with established policy and procedure, i.e., proper public relations techniques are utilized, guest requests are handled both courteously and professionally, guests are helped in a timely manner and the proper greetings are used, guests are handled correctly and efficiently, guest complaints and problems are handled in a courteous and professional manner.
• Oversee sales and operations areas ensuring service excellence, proper inventories and accurate account of sales and cleanliness standards are met and overall appearance.
• Assist with all HR related matters including interviewing, hiring, training, assigning work, coaching/counseling, and performance management. Be familiar with all company policies and benefits.
• Ensure all payroll costs and other expenses are properly monitored and controlled in accordance with budgets and monthly forecasts.
• Assist in managing aspects of P&L by controlling costs and achieving budgeted CPOR.
• Ensure that all systems and control procedures are in place to comply with corporate policy and procedures, and minimum levels of bad checks, bad debts, allowances and rebates.
• Encourage and maintain open and clear communication, rapport, and cooperation with all internal departments to foster the best possible service to all guests and staff members.
• Resolve difficult or unusual problems arising with guests. Instill in staff members the commitment to exceed guest expectations.
• Monitor and provide timely feedback, counseling, and performance evaluations to staff.
• Attend hotel operational meetings, rooms departmental meetings, and staff member related events.
• Recommend to the General Manager changes or innovations to practice, procedure, and operation with potential favorable effect on service and quality assurance.
• Monitor all supplies inventories to ensure staff has the tools to do their jobs and provide the best possible service for our guests.
• Practice safe work habits and ensure safe work practices to avoid injury to self and others.
• Ensures facility compliance with government and other regulatory laws and guidelines such as OSHA and Cal-OSHA.
• Be familiar with all company policies and benefits.

Supportive Functions

• Assist with any guest inquiry.
• Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures.
• Report maintenance problems, safety hazards, accidents, or injuries.
• Perform other reasonable job duties as requested by the General Manager.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Environmental conditions are inside, a job is considered inside if staff spends approximately 75 percent or more of the time inside. Temperature is moderate and controlled by resort environmental systems.
• Must be able to sit at a desk for up to four (8) hours per day. Walking and standing are required the rest of the working day. Length of time of these tasks may vary from day to day and task to task.
• Must be able to stand and exert well-paced mobility for up to four (4) hours in length.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability to maneuver between functions occurring simultaneously.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability in limited space and to reach other departments of the hotel on a timely basis.
• Must be able to lift up to 75 lbs. occasionally.
• Must be able to push and pull carts and equipment weighing up to 250 lbs. occasionally.
• Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity.
• Talking and hearing occur continuously in the process of communicating with guests, supervisors and subordinates.
• Vision occurs continuously with the most common visual functions being those of near and color vision and depth perception.
• Must be able to bend, stoop, squat and stretch to fulfill cleaning tasks occasionally.
• Requires manual dexterity to use and operate all necessary equipment.
• Ability to work primarily with fingers to pick, pinch, type and carry out substantial movements (motions) of the wrists and hands as well.
• Must have finger dexterity to be able to operate office equipment such as computers, printers, 10-key adding machine, multi-line touch tone phone, filing cabinets, FAX machines, photocopiers, dolly and other office equipment as needed.

Specific Job Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Must be able to travel on occasion, as needed.
• Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand the primary language used in the workplace.
• Requires good communication skills, verbal, written and electronic.
• Considerable knowledge of complex mathematical calculations and computer programs.
• Must have excellent leadership capability and customer relations skills.
• Must be detail oriented with outstanding organizational and communication skills.
• Must possess intermediate computer skills.
• Must possess basic computational ability.
• Knowledge of computer programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required.
• Ability to analyze, foresee user needs, and makes judgments to ensure proper tools are provided at property level.
• Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy and collect accurate information to resolve conflicts.
• Knowledgeable about basic function of Windows OS, MS Office, PMS, PBX, Key system, and POS.
• Self-driven and able to work independently
• Thorough knowledge of federal, state, and local laws governing equal employment opportunity and civil rights, occupational safety and health, wage and hour issues, and labor relations, including, but not limited to the following statutes and their state and local analogues (where applicable): Title VII, ADEA, Equal Pay Act, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, FLSA, ADA, OSHA, FMLA, and NLRA.

EDUCATION

• High school or equivalent education required.
• Bachelors degree and/or equivalent level of education preferred.

Experience

• Hotel Operations experience required.
• Three to Five years of Management experience required.
• Knowledgeable of loyalty programs, brand standards and hospitality industry systems preferred.

LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS

• Ability to provide and maintain a valid drivers license as the position may require the operation of motorized and electric vehicles.

Salaried position, downtown parking included, eligible for medical, dental, vision insurances.

The application deadline for this position is 45 days after the date of this posting, October 5, 2026.

This company is an equal opportunity employer.