General Manager

General Manager | Welsh Marches Border Country | £55,000 - £65,000 per annum What's in it for the successful General Manager? Salary £55,000 - £65,000 per annum, dependent on experience

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.
Profit share scheme on successful completion of probation
Company benefits package
Genuine autonomy to run the operation as your own
Reporting directly to hands-off owners who back their people
Pre-opening involvement from the ground up
A growing portfolio with real opportunity to progress as the business expands
A rare opportunity to shape a brand new, multi-revenue hospitality concept in a characterful border market town

Tonic Talent has partnered with our client to recruit a General Manager for an exciting new opening in the Welsh Marches, within easy reach of Welshpool, Oswestry and Shrewsbury. This is a genuine rarity in the market. A boutique, multi-revenue operation combining a café, bar and brasserie with six letting apartments, set in a characterful country town with real community identity. The incoming General Manager will lead the pre-opening phase, shape the culture and the guest experience from day one, and take full commercial ownership of everything under the roof. The owners are experienced, ambitious and intentionally hands-off. They want a GM who thinks and operates like a business owner, not a manager waiting for instructions. xwzovoh What are we looking for from General Manager candidates? Proven General Manager experience within a quality-led hospitality operation, hotel, inn, boutique property or food and beverage led venue
Experience across multiple revenue streams, food, drink and accommodation desirable
Pre-opening or new opening experience a strong advantage
Commercially sharp, confident owning P&L, revenue targets and cost control
A natural host with high personal standards for the guest experience
People-focused leader, able to recruit, develop and retain a team in a competitive rural market
Comfortable working with genuine autonomy and minimal day-to-day oversight
Connection to, or genuine appetite for, life and work in a rural border community