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Hotel Manager resume example

Owners and management companies size you up by the property you ran: keys, service level, brand or independent, outlets and meeting space. Next they look at RevPAR, ADR and occupancy against the comp set, GOP and flow-through, and guest and brand audit scores. State the property profile under every title, then prove each claim with one of those measures.

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Haruka Lindgren

Hotel General Manager | Select & Full Service | RevPAR index 97 to 109 in two years

  • Charleston, SC
  • haruka.lindgren@example.com
  • +1 (843) 555-0127
  • linkedin.com/in/your-name

Summary

Hotel general manager with twelve years in Charleston-area hotels, currently running a 132-key franchised select-service property with a team of 38. Owns the budget, labor model and monthly owner report. Grew RevPAR index from 97 to 109, lifted GOP margin four points and finished a property improvement plan ahead of schedule. Earlier led rooms and front office at a full-service resort.

Work Experience

General Manager

Jan 2021 – Present

Ashley River Inn & Suites · Charleston, SC

  • Grew RevPAR index from 97 to 109 against a six-hotel comp set by adding midweek corporate rates and tightening weekend restrictions.
  • Lifted GOP margin 4 points by moving housekeeping to a forecast-based labor model and renegotiating two linen and waste contracts.
  • Delivered a 14-month property improvement plan three weeks early and within budget, keeping 80% of rooms sellable during the work.

Director of Rooms

Apr 2017 – Dec 2020

Folly Tides Resort · Folly Beach, SC

  • Led front office, housekeeping, valet and reservations for a 210-key resort with 95 rooms staff across a seasonal peak.
  • Raised guest satisfaction on arrival experience by 12 points after redesigning check-in and adding a pre-arrival message.
  • Cut overtime in housekeeping by 35% by building a seasonal hiring calendar with two local staffing partners.

Front Office Manager

Jun 2013 – Mar 2017

Battery Row Hotel · Charleston, SC

  • Managed 16 front desk and night audit staff at a 160-key boutique hotel, covering manager on duty four days a week.
  • Raised upsell revenue at check-in 28% in a year through a simple room-upgrade script and weekly coaching.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Hospitality and Tourism Management

2009 – 2013

College of Charleston

Skills

Core competencies

  • RevPAR & Rate Strategy
  • Budgets & Owner Reporting
  • Property Improvement Plans

Operations

  • Rooms Division Leadership
  • Housekeeping Labor Models
  • Preventive Maintenance Planning
  • Brand Quality Audits

Systems

  • Opera Cloud PMS
  • STR Comp Set Reports
  • Revenue Management System
  • Sales & Catering Software

Certifications

  • Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA) · American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, 2023
  • Certified Rooms Division Executive (CRDE) · American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, 2019

Languages

  • English · Native
  • Japanese · Professional working proficiency

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Hotel Manager resume summary examples

Pick the one closest to your level and replace the specifics with your own.

  • Entry level

    Front office manager ready for an assistant general manager role after five years at a 150-key select-service hotel. Leads a team of 14 across front desk and night audit, covers manager on duty three days a week and helped prepare the rooms budget. Raised guest satisfaction on arrival by 9 points and passed two brand audits.

  • Mid level

    Hotel general manager of a 132-key franchised select-service property with a team of 38. Owns the budget, the labor model and the monthly owner report. Grew RevPAR index from 97 to 109 against the comp set in two years, lifted GOP margin four points and delivered a property improvement plan on time and under budget.

  • Senior

    General manager with sixteen years in full-service and resort hotels, now running a 280-key waterfront resort with three outlets, 20,000 square feet of meeting space and 240 staff. Repositioned the hotel after a guest room renovation, raising ADR 14% while holding occupancy, and built a leadership bench that produced four department heads. CHA certified.

Common mistakes on a hotel manager resume

  • Listing departments without the property profile

    Fix: "Oversaw front office, housekeeping and engineering" reads the same for 80 keys or 400. Add keys, service level, brand or independent, outlets, meeting space, annual rooms revenue if you may share it and total staff. That one line tells an owner whether you have run a hotel like theirs.

  • Quoting occupancy on its own

    Fix: High occupancy can come from heavy discounting. Pair it with ADR and RevPAR, and show your RevPAR index against the comp set, such as "RGI from 96 to 108 in 18 months." Owners care about rate and profit together, so add GOP margin or flow-through when you can share it.

  • Skipping the owner relationship

    Fix: A hotel manager works for owners and often an asset manager. Show the budget you built, the monthly reporting you presented, capital plans you scoped and any property improvement plan you delivered on time and on budget. Those bullets show you can be trusted with someone else's asset.

  • Treating guest scores as soft results

    Fix: Guest satisfaction is measured, so report it like revenue. Give your guest satisfaction or intent-to-recommend score and its change, your review ranking in the market, and brand quality audit results. Then tie one score to an action you took, such as retraining the front desk on arrival or fixing a recurring maintenance complaint.

What should a hotel manager resume include?

A hotel manager resume should open with a two or three line summary of your focus, then show each role as results rather than duties. Name the skills the posting asks for, such as RevPAR, ADR and Occupancy. Start bullets with verbs like Directed, Repositioned and Forecast, and give each one a number where you honestly have one. If you hold a credential such as Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA), American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, list it in its own section.

Revenue and performance

  • RevPAR
  • ADR
  • Occupancy
  • RevPAR Index (RGI)
  • Comp Set Analysis
  • GOP Margin
  • Flow-Through

Hotel operations

  • Front Office
  • Housekeeping Oversight
  • Engineering & Preventive Maintenance
  • Food & Beverage
  • Night Audit
  • Manager on Duty

Owner and brand

  • Annual Operating Budget
  • Owner Reporting
  • Property Improvement Plan (PIP)
  • Brand Standards Audits
  • Capital Expenditure Planning
  • Management Agreement

Guest and team

  • Guest Satisfaction Scores
  • Service Recovery
  • Online Reputation Management
  • Labor Model Planning
  • Leadership Development
  • Union Relations

Systems

  • Opera Cloud PMS
  • Revenue Management System
  • STR Reports
  • Sales & Catering Systems
  • OTA Extranets
  • Channel Manager

Action verbs

  • Directed
  • Repositioned
  • Forecast
  • Renovated
  • Negotiated
  • Elevated

Certifications

  • Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA), American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
  • Certified Rooms Division Executive (CRDE), American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
  • Certified Revenue Management Executive (CRME), HSMAI
  • ServSafe Manager Certification (National Restaurant Association)

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Hotel Manager resume bullet examples

The numbers are illustrative. Keep the structure (verb, action, measurable result) and use figures you can back up.

  • Directed a 132-key select-service hotel with 38 staff, growing RevPAR index from 97 to 109 against the comp set in two years.
  • Raised ADR 14% after a guest room renovation while holding occupancy within one point, by repositioning rate tiers and packages.
  • Lifted GOP margin 4 points in one year by redesigning the housekeeping labor model around forecast occupancy instead of fixed shifts.
  • Delivered an 18-month property improvement plan on schedule and 3% under budget while keeping 85% of rooms open during work.
  • Raised guest satisfaction scores by 11 points in a year by retraining the front desk on arrivals and tracking every complaint to close.
  • Scored 94% on the annual brand quality audit, up from 81%, after building monthly self-inspections with each department head.
  • Grew group and meeting revenue 22% by assigning a sales manager to local corporate accounts and adding two meeting packages.
  • Cut engineering work orders open longer than 7 days from 60 to 9 by scheduling preventive maintenance in the property management system.
  • Built a supervisor development program that promoted 4 line employees into department head roles within three years.
  • Presented the monthly owner report and annual budget to the ownership group and asset manager, winning approval for a lobby refresh.

How to stand out as a hotel manager applicant

Tailor every application to the posting: the resume, the cover letter and the answers you prepare for the interview.

  • Match the property type in each posting

    A resort posting reads for outlets, groups and seasonality. A select-service posting reads for lean labor and GOP. A management company may want multi-property or brand conversion work. Move the property most like theirs to the top, put their brand family or service level in your headline if you have it, and trim departments they do not have. Tailor your resume to a hotel posting

  • Write the cover letter to the owner's problem

    Read the hotel's reviews and its position in the market before writing. If reviews mention tired rooms, lead with your renovation or PIP work. If rate lags the market, lead with RevPAR index gains. Keep it to three short paragraphs, end with your availability for a site visit and mention any relocation plans. Draft a hotel manager cover letter

  • Prepare for the owner interview

    Expect questions on how you build a budget, what you do when the month is tracking behind forecast, how you handle a guest complaint that reaches the brand, and how you hire for housekeeping in a tight labor market. Bring a one-page summary of your current property's results, with numbers you are allowed to share. Practice hotel manager interview questions

  • Line up your LinkedIn with the resume

    Management companies and owners often look you up before calling. Use the same titles, dates and property profiles on LinkedIn as on your resume, add a headline with your current role and property type, and list your CHA or other credentials there too. Gaps between the two raise questions you do not need. Improve your LinkedIn profile

Salary (official data)

Official pay statistics for the occupation that matches this role, copied exactly as each statistics office publishes them.

  • United States

    Median gross annual pay: $69,250 a year · Median gross hourly pay: $33.29 an hour

    Middle half of earners: $49,530 to $94,030 · 10th to 90th percentile: $40,070 to $128,880

    Official occupation: Lodging Managers (SOC 11-9081)

    Gross wages of employees in all industries, before deductions; excludes the self-employed.

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Public domain.

  • United Kingdom

    Median gross annual pay: £35,933 a year

    Official occupation: Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors (SOC 2020 1221)

    Gross annual pay of full-time employee jobs (employees on adult rates in the same job for more than a year).

    Provisional figures: the publisher revises them a year later.

    Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, tax year to 5 April 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Canada

    Median gross hourly pay: CA$40.00 an hour · Median gross weekly pay: CA$1,635 a week

    Official occupation group: Middle management occupations in retail and wholesale trade and customer services (NOC 2021 60)

    Usual gross wages of full-time employees (30 hours or more a week) at their main job, including tips, commissions and bonuses.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual, 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

  • Ireland

    Mean gross annual pay of the whole major group: €90,521 a year

    Major occupation group: Managers (ISCO-08 1)

    Mean gross annual earnings, including bonuses, for the whole major occupation group in enterprises with 10 or more employees. Eurostat publishes no median by occupation.

    Source: Eurostat, Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_28), 2022, CC BY 4.0. Ruubu matched the role to an ISCO-08 major group; Eurostat is not responsible for this use of its data.

Figures cover everyone in the official occupation, at every experience level. They are not a job offer, a forecast or a Ruubu estimate. Ruubu matches each role to the closest official occupation. An official occupation can include related jobs.

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Hotel Manager resume questions

Is the CHA worth listing, and can I list it in progress?

The Certified Hotel Administrator from AHLEI is a well-known credential for general managers and senior managers, and it has eligibility rules tied to your management experience. Check the current requirements on the AHLEI site before you apply. If you hold it, put it in your headline or certifications line. If you are enrolled, write "CHA candidate, exam scheduled" with a date, never just "CHA."

How do I present select-service versus full-service experience?

Write the service level and size in a scope line under each title: "112-key select-service hotel, franchised, one breakfast outlet" or "260-key full-service resort, three outlets, 18,000 square feet of meeting space, union housekeeping." A full-service owner will read for banquets, outlets and group sales; a select-service owner will read for lean labor models and GOP.

What numbers should I show if the owners keep the financials private?

Index numbers and changes are usually safe to share. Your RevPAR index (RGI) against the comp set, the change in ADR, occupancy points gained, GOP margin change, guest satisfaction scores and brand audit results all prove performance without revealing the owners' revenue. Leave out anything covered by a confidentiality agreement.

I'm an assistant GM or front office manager. How do I step up?

Pull forward the parts of the GM job you already do. Building part of the budget, presenting at the monthly owner call, covering as manager on duty, running a department during a renovation or leading a brand audit all count. Give each its own bullet with a result, and name the departments you have led directly.

Should I name the hotel brand?

Yes, as it appears publicly. Brand experience matters because owners want someone who already knows that brand's standards, systems and audits. Name the property and the flag the way guests see it, and add the management company if it was a third-party operator. If you moved between brands, a short line about each brand's systems helps the reader.

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