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About the Role
Responsible for leading hotel pre-opening strategy, managing operations, building teams, and ensuring exceptional guest experiences in leisure hospitality.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the full pre opening strategy of the hotel, ensuring operational, commercial, financial, people and brand milestones are delivered
- Build and develop the leadership team and hotel team from scratch
- Drive the operational set up of the hotel across rooms, F&B, serviced apartments, guest experience, entertainment, family facilities
- Ensure successful positioning of Sol Qiddiya within the destination
- Manage key relationships with regional leadership, ownership, project stakeholders and local partners
Requirements
- Proven experience as General Manager or senior Hotel Manager in leisure hotels, resorts or lifestyle hospitality environments
- Previous experience in hotel openings, pre openings or post opening phases
- Strong operational background and ability to lead complex projects
- Experience managing large teams in multicultural environments
- Previous experience in the GCC market is a must
- Excellent business vision, financial acumen and commercial mindset
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Main Responsibilities
- As General Manager, you will be responsible for leading the full pre opening strategy of the hotel, ensuring that all operational, commercial, financial, people and brand milestones are delivered successfully ahead of the opening in Q2 2027.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and developing the leadership team and hotel team from scratch, creating a strong culture of service, collaboration, accountability and passion for hospitality.
- Driving the operational set up of the hotel across rooms, F&B, serviced apartments, guest experience, entertainment, family facilities and all key hotel services.
- Ensuring the successful positioning of Sol Qiddiya within the destination, bringing the Meli Sol brand to life through a vibrant, warm and memorable guest experience.
- Managing key relationships with regional leadership, ownership, project stakeholders and local partners, ensuring alignment during the pre opening phase and after the hotel launch.
What we are looking for
- Proven experience as General Manager or senior Hotel Manager in leisure hotels, resorts or lifestyle hospitality environments.
- Previous experience in hotel openings, pre openings or post opening phases.
- Strong operational background and the ability to lead complex projects from planning to execution.
- Experience managing large teams, building leadership structures and developing talent in multicultural environments.
- Strong understanding of leisure hospitality, family oriented guest experiences, F&B operations and destination driven hotels.
- Excellent business vision, financial acumen and commercial mindset.
- Previous experience in the GCC market is a must.
- Experience in Saudi Arabia will be considered a strong plus.
- Arabic speaker will be highly valued.
- A hands on, people oriented and highly adaptable leadership style.
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