Job Ref: KGH12160
Branch: Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth
Location: Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth, Leeds
Salary/Benefits: From £63,000 per annum plus benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 12/08/2026
Closing date: 12/09/2026
We're looking for an ambitious Area General Manager to support our Regional General Manager across a portfolio of hotels throughout Yorkshire and the Midlands.
This isn't a traditional multi-site role with a fixed portfolio. Instead, you'll oversee a flexible group of three to four hotels, stepping in where your leadership will make the biggest impact. Whether that's supporting a newly appointed Hotel Manager, driving performance improvements, leading change, or strengthening operational capability, you'll be trusted to deliver results where they're needed most.
Alongside operational leadership, you'll work on regional projects, contribute to wider business initiatives and develop the strategic skills needed to prepare you for your next career move.
If you're someone who enjoys solving problems, developing leaders and making good hotels even better, we'd love to hear from you.
This role reports to the Regional General Manager.
You'll partner with Hotel Managers to build high-performing hotels that consistently deliver outstanding guest experiences, commercial success and operational excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coaching, developing and supporting Hotel Managers to strengthen leadership capability and deliver outstanding results.
- Improving commercial performance through effective revenue management, cost control and performance planning.
- Driving consistency across your portfolio, ensuring brand standards, compliance and operational excellence are maintained.
- Using performance data, guest feedback and business insight to identify opportunities and implement meaningful improvements.
- Leading change, supporting hotel openings, transitions and improvement projects where required.
- Building strong relationships with central support teams, owners and stakeholders to achieve shared business objectives.
- Acting as a trusted deputy to the Regional General Manager, contributing to regional strategy and wider business initiatives.
You're an experienced hotel leader who knows how to get the very best from both people and performance.
You bring a calm, pragmatic approach, enjoy developing others and aren't afraid to roll your sleeves up when a hotel needs support. Commercially astute and operationally credible, you're equally comfortable coaching a first-time Hotel Manager as you are presenting performance plans to senior stakeholders.
We're looking for someone who brings:
- Proven success as a multi-site General Manager or within a large, complex hotel operation.
- Exceptional leadership skills, with a passion for developing future General Managers.
- Strong commercial awareness, with experience improving financial performance and operational efficiency.
- A thorough understanding of branded hotel operations, guest satisfaction and quality standards.
- The ability to analyse business performance and translate insight into action.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, building credibility at every level.
- Resilience, adaptability and a solutions-focused mindset in a fast-moving environment.
- The ambition and capability to progress into a Regional General Manager role in the future.
Key Requirements
- This role requires regular travel between sites. A valid driving licence is essential.
- This role will be subject to a DBS check for the successful candidate.
- This role requires the successful candidate to hold (or obtain) a personal licence and the post holder may be required to act as a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS).
Benefits
Our rewards package includes:
- Car Allowance
- Access to employee rates, offering huge discounts on hotel stays around the globe!
- Attractive discounts across a variety of major retailers, restaurants and days out.
- Free use of our gyms, pools, and leisure facilities.
- 24/7 access to wellbeing, financial, and legal support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Career development through fully funded apprenticeships and our internal development programme.
A member of our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange a 15-minute phone conversation with shortlisted candidates. This will be an opportunity to learn more about the role and for us to understand your experience in more detail. If successful at this stage, you will be invited to meet with the Regional General Manager.
We review applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out. We may close the role once we've found the right person.
At Kew Green Hotels, we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know at [email protected] – we're here to support you.
Kew Green Hotels is one of the UK's leading hotel management companies, operating a diverse portfolio of global brands. We're a people-driven business that's passionate about performance, guest experience, and creating hotels and teams that make us proud.
Learn more about who we are and what drives us at www.kewgreenhotels.com.
The Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth hotel is ocated on the outskirts of the city, the hotel is in an excellent position from which to explore the many attractions Leeds and Yorkshire have to offer such as, Harewood House, Lotherton Hall and Bird Garden, Royal Armouries, Temple Newsam, Yorkshire Dales and the City of York, making it the perfect family destination. Within easy reach of the M1 and M62 motorways as well as Leeds Bradford International and Manchester International Airports only an hour from the hotel, Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth is a highly accessible venue to hold important business meetings and events. What's more, with our in-house fitness suite including swimming pool, a fully equipped gym.
