General Manager

We’re Looking for Our Next General Manager!

Are you a hospitality leader who believes great hotels start with great people?

A-1 Hospitality Group is seeking a dynamic General Manager to lead the Columbia Gorge Hotel in beautiful Hood River, Oregon. We’re looking for someone who can bring together people, performance, and guest experience while building a strong culture of accountability, teamwork, and genuine hospitality.

This role is ideal for a leader who loves being present with their team, connecting with guests, driving results, and making a meaningful impact on a property and its community.

If you’re ready to lead, inspire, and help take an incredible hotel to the next level, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Delivers results that contribute to the mission and overall success of the hotel by accomplishing performance objectives focused on business revenues, guest and associate satisfaction and effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Maintains a quality product.
• Ensures exceptional guest/employee relations.
• Maximizes room revenues by anticipating and planning for market shifts; develops and monitors strategic marketing prospects; develops, implements and monitors annual business and marketing plans and participates in appropriate national marketing efforts.
• Develops and maintains rapport with key community contacts to ensure a visible presence in the local community.
• Oversees the security function to ensure a safe and secure environment for guests, employees, and hotel assets.
• Maintains a proactive human resources function to ensure employee motivation, training and development, wage/benefit administration and compliance with policies and procedures and labor regulations.
• Monitors the performance of financial and operational plans for the hotel which support the overall objectives of the corporation.
• Develops the annual budget and makes recommendations for capital improvements to enhance the assets of the company and brand loyalty.
• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hotel and management experience.
• Experience as a General Manager at a similar hotel
• A proven track record of meeting budgets, an understanding of P&L statements, budgets, and cost/inventory control.
• Field management experience preferred and a sales background is a plus.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and PC (Windows-based software) skills will be required.
• Proven track record of service and financial success.
• We administer pre-employment drug testing and background checks.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance after 60 days of full time employment. (Full Time Only)
• Vacation hours after 90 days of employment. (Full Time Only)
• Sick Time hours after 90 days of employment.
• Hotel Discounts around the world
• Performance Based Bonuses

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.