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LEFT LANE is a vertically integrated real estate design, development and management firm specializing in the acquisition and transformation of iconic, historic properties. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, dynamic, and inspiring workplace and company culture where our team members are inspired to create lasting impressions through warm, anticipatory service. How we want our guests to feel when staying with us is the same as…how we want our team to feel every day.

Hotel Bardo Savannah is named one of the best hotels in the world in 2024 by Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler. Hotel Bardo team member benefits include PTO and paid holidays, 401k matching, health and telehealth benefits, discounts on resort offerings like rooms, dining, shop and spa, complimentary onsite fitness classes, complimentary meals in our team member café and more.

Hotel Bardo Savannah is seeking a Hotel Manager to support day-to-day hotel operations across Food & Beverage, Rooms, guest experience, and cross-department execution. With Food & Beverage serving as a central part of the hotel’s operating rhythm and guest experience, this role will play an important part in strengthening service consistency, leadership routines, communication, financial discipline, and operational follow-through across the property.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced operator who is energized by building structure, developing leaders, and strengthening consistency in a dynamic, high-touch environment. The ideal candidate brings strong Food & Beverage fundamentals, polished luxury or lifestyle service instincts, and the humility to lead from both the floor and the table.

• Support day-to-day hotel operations across Food & Beverage, Rooms, and guest-facing departments, ensuring strong communication, service execution, and operational follow-through.
• Provide visible, hands-on leadership across Food & Beverage outlets, supporting service standards, guest engagement, manager development, and consistency during key service periods.
• Partner with Food & Beverage leaders to strengthen operating routines, clarify expectations, improve accountability, and build confidence among managers and teams.
• Work closely with Front Office and Housekeeping leaders to support a seamless Rooms experience across arrival, stay, service recovery, and departure.
• Translate brand standards, service expectations, and operational priorities into clear, practical routines that leaders and teams can execute consistently.
• Support financial performance through labor management, cost control, revenue awareness, inventory discipline, and thoughtful operating decisions.
• Partner with Culinary, Events, Marketing, and Brand teams to support programming, activations, events, and revenue-generating guest experiences.
• Strengthen communication and alignment across departments, ensuring leaders are clear on business levels, VIPs, events, priorities, and follow-through.
• Reinforce standards for food safety, sanitation, responsible alcohol service, workplace safety, cleanliness, and company policies.
• Serve as a steady leadership presence during peak periods, service challenges, guest opportunities, and moments requiring additional operational support.

• 7+ years of progressive hotel operations leadership experience, with strong Food & Beverage leadership experience required.
• Demonstrated success leading Food & Beverage operations in a multi-outlet, high-touch, or complex service environment.
• Experience supporting broader hotel operations, including Rooms, guest experience, service recovery, labor management, and cross-functional communication.
• Hands-on leadership style with a strong floor presence; comfortable coaching in real time, supporting peak periods, and reinforcing standards directly with leaders and teams.
• Strong ability to develop managers, build accountability, clarify expectations, and address performance gaps with professionalism and urgency.
• Solid financial acumen, including labor management, forecasting, cost controls, inventory discipline, revenue awareness, and P&L understanding.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence across departments and create alignment between Food & Beverage, Culinary, Rooms, Events, Marketing, and Brand.
• Solutions-oriented, organized, and resilient, with the ability to lead through complexity, change, and operational pressure.
• Professional presence aligned with Hotel Bardo’s brand standards, with the humility and energy to lead from both the floor and the table.