Department Head
Front office, housekeeping, F&B or rooms division. The CV shows departmental results and readiness to take a whole property.
Job role · Hospitality
Hotel Manager CV writing
A Hotel Manager CV is read against a P&L. Owners and operators want the property's size and positioning, and what happened to RevPAR, GOP and guest scores while you ran it.
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Quick answer
A Hotel Manager CV should give every role a property line, covering keys, positioning, brand and headcount, and then commercial results with a baseline: RevPAR against the competitive set, GOP margin, occupancy and guest scores. Owners and operators read a hotel manager's CV the way they read a monthly report, so metrics without scale or comparison tell them very little.
Overview
Hotel Manager covers general managers of full-service resorts, managers of limited-service business hotels, and department heads stepping up to their first property. The screening questions are consistent: how many keys, what brand or positioning, which departments reported to you, and what you did to revenue, cost and guest satisfaction. A CV that talks about hospitality in general terms loses to one that uses the metrics operators track every day.
What employers screen for
What a Hotel Manager CV has to prove.
- Property size, positioning and brand: keys, star rating, outlets and meeting space
- RevPAR, ADR and occupancy against budget and against the competitive set
- GOP or departmental profit, and cost control
- Guest scores on the platforms the operator tracks, and brand audit results
- Departments and headcount reporting to you
- Pre-opening, rebranding or renovation experience
Positioning
How to position the CV.
Open with a property line for each role: keys, positioning, branded or independent, and headcount. Then give the commercial results with a baseline: RevPAR index, GOP margin, guest score movement. Operators read a CV the way they read a monthly report, so metrics without a baseline or comparison set tell them little. Pre-opening and turnaround work deserve their own bullets.
Skills worth naming
- P&L and budget management
- Revenue management and pricing strategy
- Front office, housekeeping and F&B operations
- Guest experience and reputation management
- Team leadership and labour cost control
- Brand standards and quality audits
- Property management systems such as Opera
- Sales, distribution and OTA channel management
Keywords an ATS looks for
Use these where they are true. Keywords carry weight when the experience behind them is visible, and none at all when they are stacked in a list.
- hotel manager
- general manager
- RevPAR
- P&L management
- revenue management
- guest satisfaction
- hotel operations
- Opera PMS
Achievement examples
What a strong bullet looks like.
These are written in the shape a Hotel Manager bullet should take: the situation, the decision, and what moved. Use them as a pattern, never as text to copy.
- 01
General Manager of a 220-key upscale city hotel with 160 staff, growing RevPAR by 14% year on year and moving the hotel from fifth to second in its competitive set.
- 02
Raised GOP margin from 31% to 38% over two years by restructuring housekeeping rotas and renegotiating laundry and energy contracts.
- 03
Lifted the average guest review score from 8.1 to 8.8 on the main booking platform by retraining front office and fixing the three most repeated complaints.
- 04
Led pre-opening of a 96-key resort, recruiting and training 110 staff and opening on the planned date with the brand standards audit passed.
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Seniority
What changes as you move up.
Assistant or Deputy General Manager
Running the hotel day to day alongside the GM, often covering rooms and F&B. Budget ownership starts to appear.
Hotel or General Manager
Full P&L, owner reporting, RevPAR, GOP and guest scores for one property.
Area or Cluster General Manager
Multiple properties, pre-openings and brand strategy. The CV reads as an operator and an owner's representative at once.
Mistakes
What costs Hotel Manager candidates interviews.
- No key count, positioning or brand, so the scale of the property is invisible
- Revenue growth quoted without a baseline, budget or competitive set
- Describing departments rather than the results you drove in them
- Ignoring cost and GOP, which owners weigh as heavily as revenue
- Guest satisfaction claims with no score, platform or audit named
FAQ
Hotel Manager CV questions
What should a hotel general manager CV include?
A hotel general manager CV should include property size, positioning and brand for each role, the departments and headcount you led, and results against budget: RevPAR, occupancy, ADR, GOP and guest scores. Add pre-opening, renovation or turnaround work, and how you reported to owners or asset managers. Keep hospitality adjectives out and let the numbers carry the case.
How do I show RevPAR growth on my CV?
Show the change, the period and the comparison. "Grew RevPAR 14% year on year, moving from fifth to second in the competitive set" is stronger than a percentage alone, because growth in a rising market is expected. Where you can, say what drove it: rate strategy, a new segment, channel mix or a renovated product.
How do I move from front office manager to hotel manager?
Show that you already think beyond your department. Budget ownership, duty manager cover, cross-department projects, revenue meetings and guest score improvements all help. Put rooms division results in commercial terms, such as upsell revenue or occupancy, and name any period when you ran the hotel in the general manager's absence.
Is hotel brand experience important on a hotel manager CV?
Yes, when you apply to a branded operator, because they want to know you can run their standards and systems. Name the brands, their positioning and the audits you passed. For independent or boutique hotels, emphasise commercial flexibility instead: direct booking growth, owner relationships and doing more with a smaller team.
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