Ennismore · 14 hours ago
Director of Openings & Transitions, Americas
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$140K/yr - $140K/yrEnnismore is a dynamic company focused on hotel operations and growth. The Director of Openings & Transitions, Americas will oversee all hotel pre-opening, transition, and closure activities across the region, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with brand standards.
HospitalityLifestyle
Responsibilities
Lead and coordinate all hotel openings, brand transitions, rebrands, and closures across the Americas region, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and in alignment brand standards
Provide project leadership, supporting General Managers, pre-opening teams, and cross-functional team members to keep all projects on track and aligned with strategic goals
Create, maintain and distribute the Pre-Opening and Transition Brand Standards Pack, ensuring all stakeholders understand their roles, responsibilities, and accountability. The same for closing projects
Oversee the projects’ critical paths (Monday.com), ensuring timelines, milestones, budgets, and resources are effectively managed and clearly communicated to all teams
Serve as a visible, supportive presence on-property and virtually, providing taskforce support, hands-on guidance, and training to embed brand standards, culture, and guest experience principles
Ensure that VP of Operations, US and EVP of Operations, LATAM & Caribbean review and approve any deviations from brand standards, ensuring brand integrity during openings, transitions, and closures
Act as the key operational and strategic point of contact for internal teams and leadership, keeping communication clear, decisions aligned, and teams motivated
Capture lessons learned and share best practices from each opening, transition, or closure to continuously improve processes and ensure future success
Build and sustain a strong, connected network of GM’s and senior leaders, fostering collaboration, shared learning, and consistent leadership behaviors across the region
Contribute to regional strategy, identifying risks, opportunities, and priorities related to openings, transitions, and closures, and providing insights to leadership for both short- and long-term planning
Qualification
Required
Strong understanding of hotel operations (lifestyle brands preferred)
Previous experience leading hotel openings, brand transitions, rebrands, or closures, ideally across multiple properties and markets, preferred
Excellent project management skills, able to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while ensuring timelines, budgets, and goals are met
Proven experience partnering with cross-functional teams (Operations, Revenue, Sales, Marketing, F&B, People & Culture, Development, and beyond) to ensure aligned execution
You are scarily organized with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
Able to travel frequently across the Americas to support openings, transitions, and closures on-site
Preferred
Experience with Monday.com or similar project management tools is strongly preferred
Someone who thrives in a creative and entrepreneurial environment rather than a structured and established work environment
You're looking for a place where you can be you: no clones in suits for us
You're not precious. We leave our egos at the door and help get things done
You're up for doing things differently and trying (almost) everything once
You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other and has fun along the way
Benefits
The opportunity to embark on an exciting career in a company that is taking off!
Ennismore’s values and fast-growing environment
To help define global brands and have a direct impact on the guest experience
The opportunity to be yourself and collaborate with other bright minds in an open and innovative culture that values creativity
The opportunity to challenge the norm and work in a rewarding environment, building global brands
Lots of opportunity to progress and switch it up as part of a global family of brands
Learning opportunities to broaden your skillset and development that helps you think, make, and thrive at work
Company
Ennismore
Ennismore is the global hospitality company and curator of unique properties and experiences based in London and founded by Sharan Pasricha.
Founded in 2011
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Cain International
2023-04-13Private Equity
Leadership Team
Gaurav Bhushan
Co-CEO
Sharan Pasricha
Founder & Co-CEO
Recent News
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