Area General Manager
Prominence Hospitality Group
Elevate Your Career in Hospitality – Join Prominence Hospitality as an Area General Manager!
Compensation: Starting at $95,000 per year
Are you passionate about creating exceptional guest experiences and eager to advance your hospitality career? At Prominence Hospitality Group, we’re looking for a driven, energetic, and strategic Area General Manager to lead our hotel to excellence!
Location: Chicago Area
Why Choose Prominence Hospitality
- IGNITE Your Career – We invest in you with comprehensive training, career growth opportunities, and leadership development.
- Competitive Pay & Incentives – We recognize and reward your hard work and dedication.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – Comprehensive benefits for full-time team members (30+ hours/week).
- 401k, Health Savings, and Spending Accounts – We support your financial well-being.
- Work/Life Balance – Enjoy flexible schedules and generous employee discounts (your friends and family benefit too!).
- Inclusive & Empowering Culture – We celebrate diversity and encourage innovation.
What You’ll Do as Area General Manager
- Be Strategic: Hands-on strategic leader supporting multiple properties while empowering hotel teams to deliver service excellence and drive results.
- Team Leadership: Recruit, hire, and onboard General Managers and key leadership positions across your assigned properties.
- Performance Coaching: Guide hotel leaders through operational challenges, performance reviews, and development planning.
- Operational Oversight: Conduct regular audits of cleanliness, service standards, and hotel efficiency.
- Sales & Financial Accountability: Monitor KPIs and sales targets, identify trends, and implement action plans to ensure properties meet or exceed quarterly goals.
- Cost & Labor Optimization: Collaborate with GMs to implement strategies that streamline operations and reduce costs.
- Partner & Collaborator: Work closely with property leaders, ownership, and Prominence senior leadership to maintain alignment and success.
What You’ll Bring
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years in a General Manager or multi-unit leadership role within hospitality.
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead, inspire, and hold teams accountable while maintaining a positive, productive culture.
- Business Acumen: Strong knowledge of P&L, revenue management, labor efficiency, and guest service metrics.
- Communication & Organization: Excellent interpersonal, coaching, and time management skills.
- Personality: Energetic, motivated, and driven to deliver results while supporting people-first values.
- Flexibility to Travel: Ability to complete task force assignments out of state.
- Brand Experience: Hilton, Marriott, IHG preferred.
Why This Role Matters
As Area General Manager, you are a key strategic partner and culture carrier for Prominence. Your leadership will influence hotel performance, employee development, and the guest experience across multiple properties — helping drive the long-term success of our portfolio.
Ready to Ignite Your Career? Apply Now!
Join a team that values your growth and contributions. Click the link below to apply and become part of the Prominence Hospitality family!
Prominence Hospitality Group
Management Company
With equity stake in their entire portfolio, Prominence exceptionally couples an owners’ perspective and hoteliers’ distinct knowledge to cultivate great guest experiences.
The leadership team is humbly honored to have quickly established an industry-wide reputation for delivering strong returns while fostering long-term relationships.
Our top-light organization is strategically focused on building a principal-oriented culture, with each of our team members bringing their own impressive strength in hospitality and real estate acquisitions, development and construction, hotel operations, sales and marketing and/or asset management to the table.