Pet Hotel General Manager

As a General Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring exceptional care for our guests, clients, and staff.

Competencies:

• Communication: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.

• Conflict Management: Encourages creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.

• Managing Performance: The ability to take responsibility for one's own or one's employees' performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

• Financial Management: Understands the organization's financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers the program budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results.

• Monitors expenditures and uses cost-benefit thinking to set priorities.

• Managing Change: The ability to demonstrate support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization's effectiveness; initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change.

• Vision: Takes a long-term view and builds a shared vision with others; acts as a catalyst for organizational change.

• Leveraging Diversity: Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.

• Care and Safety: Fosters a safe culture and environment and ensures team is properly trained to handle situations that could cause guests or employees to be harmed to attempt to prevent situations from occurring.

Responsibilities: Your duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead overall operational efforts to support Wag Hotels' growth and profitability goals.

• Recruit, hire, and retain talent, fostering a culture of customer service, care, and safety.

• Manage labor and costs to meet P&L needs.

• Collaborate with the Executive team to develop and execute company policies.

• Handle client requests and concerns promptly, ensuring excellent customer satisfaction.

• Train teams on hotel tours, timekeeping navigation, and promote healthy communication.

• Evaluate and appraise staff, lead subordinates, and enforce disciplinary procedures.

• Navigate PEO system for back-of-house departments, including approving timecards, payroll submittal and scheduling.

• Support the Wag Hotels app, and verify retail inventory.

• Handle review management, ensuring prompt responses.

• Have full knowledge of care and safety policies, effectively training or assisting in training staff.

• Identify and address employee and client issues in a timely manner. Partnering with people in other areas of the business to ensure accurate responses.

• Familiarity with the employee manual and enforcement of regulations.

• Recognize and anticipate guest health and behavior concerns, communicating needs.

• Possess full knowledge of care and safety policies, effectively training staff on these policies.

• Ensure hotel cleanliness, communicate maintenance needs, and manage inventory and ordering.

• Manage facility maintenance, Schedule hotel maintenance and repairs, presenting quotes to the General Manager.

• Operate both front and back of the house in emergency situations.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of managerial or leadership experience.

• Ability to manage a team of 35+ employees.

• Must have flexible availability.

• Previous leadership experience at Wag Hotels is a plus.

• Previous animal experience is a plus.

• High-level managerial experience.

• Ability to read, understand, and disseminate financial reports.

• Upbeat, motivating, and can-do leader.

• Ability to navigate stressful situations.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

• Ability to Reach and bend while standing for a long period of time.

• Ability to be around dogs and cats for an extended period of time.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $72, $84,831.52 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Vision insurance

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Application Question(s):

• • Do you have at least 2 years of managerial or leadership experience? (Yes/No)

o If yes, describe the size of the team you managed and the key responsibilities you held.

• • Have you managed a team of 30+ employees? (Yes/No)

o If yes, how do you ensure high performance and accountability across such a large team?

• • Describe a time when you had to resolve a serious conflict between two employees. How did you handle it, and what was the outcome?
• • Financial management is a key part of this role. Can you share an example of how you managed a budget or reduced costs without compromising service quality?
• • How do you handle negative online reviews or customer complaints in a way that reflects positively on the business?
• • What methods do you use to motivate employees and maintain a strong company culture?
• • Have you implemented a new process or change in a company before? How did you ensure team buy-in?

Ability to Relocate:

• Dfw Airport, TX 75261: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person