Job Ref: DAL5041
Branch: Clayton Hotel Sligo
Location: Clayton Hotel Sligo
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 39
Posted date: 02/06/2026
Closing date: 14/07/2026
General Manager
Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for hospitality? At Dalata Hotel Group, we believe that great leadership is at the heart of hospitality. Dalata Hotel Group are currently looking for an experienced leader who is eager to take ownership, elevate their teams, and drive outstanding performance while continuing to grow professionally.
In this role, you will enjoy the unique opportunity to shape the culture and success of your team, contribute to the strategy of this hotel and drive the business to ensure it reaches its potential. You will lead and manage hotel operations effectively, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, strategic growth, and high-performance standards while fostering a positive work environment and driving financial success.
Benefits
- Development Opportunities through our Dalata Academy to support your career journey
- Pension access (Ask your HR Manager for local pension information) performance-related bonus plan
- 50% Off FB in all properties
- €/£60 employee rate on rooms for all Dalata-owned hotels
- 30% off the Friends Family rate
- Free employee meals on duty
- Extra AL day for every year worked (5 days to a maximum of 5 days)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme/Transport Schemes
- Staff Appreciation Initiatives, fun team-building activities and regular charity events
Your Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee all hotel operations, ensuring adherence to company standards and policies.
- Lead and manage the hotel's team to achieve operational excellence through the Senior Management team.
- Create a culture of exceptional customer service, ensuring a memorable experience for all guests.
- Develop and implement long-term strategies for growth, profitability, and sustainability.
- Drive hotel performance through financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Foster a positive work environment that encourages staff development, engagement, and retention.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and regulatory requirements.
What You Will Need:
- 2-3 years of experience as a General Manager or 4-5 years as Deputy General Manager within a busy hotel environment which has a strong room strategy and focus.
- Strong understanding of hotel operations, financial management, and industry trends.
- Proven track record in creating and implementing successful strategies for guest satisfaction and revenue growth.
- Exceptional leadership skills with a focus on team development and performance management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Strong commercial mind and experience in managing large budgets, revenues and costs.
- High standards for service delivery, particularly in Food Beverage and guest relations.
- A passion for the hospitality industry and a desire to drive continuous improvement within hotel operations.
Dalata Hotel Group – We bring the heart of hospitality to every hotel we own and operate. We see our growth and expansion plans as a way of spreading our unique way of caring for our guests further around the world, bringing better experiences to more people. Currently, the Dalata difference can be felt at each of our hotels in Ireland, the UK, Germany the Netherlands, and we’ll keep expanding this further, focusing on key UK cities, Dublin and Continental Europe.
Helping our people to grow and develop their careers is vitally important to us and is one of our highest priorities. We have many exciting and unique internal development programmes, each crafted to make sure our employees get the learning they need to be able to take the next step in their careers.
Dalata Hotel Group is an Inclusive Employer. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply to be part of our team. However, we understand everyone's needs are different; therefore, if you require any accommodations with this application process, please highlight your needs when you are completing your application process.
Welcome to Clayton Hotel Sligo where our famously personal way makes your time with us a little more special.
Our hotel is located just outside of Sligo Town centre, on scenic private grounds with breathtaking views of Benbulben. From culture to nature, you’re connected to everything.
