Vice President of Hospitality
About the job
- A Bachelor's degree in Hospitality, Business, or a related field is preferred.
- At least 10 years of hotel leadership experience, including at least 3 years as a General Manager or Hotel Manager in luxury or upscale environments.
- Strong success in food and beverage operations, including restaurant and banquet operations.
- Experience in boutique, independent, or luxury branded hotels.
- Experience with hotel openings, renovations, or development initiatives and ownership collaboration.
- Expertise in profit and loss management, budgeting, labor strategy, and revenue optimization.
- Strong understanding of luxury service standards and operations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Word and Excel.
- Executive presence with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.
- A strategic, hands-on leadership approach focused on guest experience and operational excellence.
- A service-driven approach and passion for hospitality, design, and culture.
- Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership across all hotel departments, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, brand alignment, and consistent service excellence.
- Oversee all aspects of the property, including rooms, food and beverage, and events, while fostering a high-performing, accountable, and service-driven culture.
- Lead and evolve the food and beverage strategy, including restaurant operations, banquets, in-room dining, and events, in close partnership with culinary and food and beverage leadership.
- Ensure seamless execution of service standards and standard operating procedures across all guest touchpoints.
- Serve as the public face of the hotel, building relationships with guests, clients, and the community to enhance reputation and market presence.
- Drive financial performance through revenue growth, profitability, and disciplined management of budgets, forecasts, labor, and profit and loss.
- Identify and execute revenue and value-enhancing opportunities across rooms, food and beverage, and events, including innovative programming and activations.
- Partner with ownership and asset management on financial performance, capital planning, return-on-investment initiatives, and long-term asset positioning.
- Contribute to broader business planning, underwriting, and strategic decision-making beyond day-to-day operations.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor leadership talent while promoting collaboration, accountability, and recognition.
- Partner with sales, marketing, and public relations to drive demand, strengthen brand positioning, and ensure a cohesive guest experience.
- Support major capital projects, renovations, and development initiatives while identifying opportunities to enhance asset value and operational efficiency.
- Act as a key stakeholder of Transwestern Hospitality Group, continuing to develop Hotel Granduca as a premier luxury hotel in the Houston market and supporting future growth and development initiatives.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
About the company
Transwestern offers commercial real estate services, development, and investment management through an integrated, customized approach that starts with good ideas and aims to drive client value. Its products work by coordinating multiple services—listing and leasing, project development, asset and investment management—across its 33 U.S. offices and through strategic global alliances to tailor solutions to each client. What sets Transwestern apart is its emphasis on personalized service and a unified platform that combines advisory, development, and investment capabilities, supported by broad geographic reach and collaboration with partners to craft creative, client-specific real estate strategies. The company’s goal is to deliver tangible value for clients by providing comprehensive, customized real estate solutions that meet their objectives.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
Founded
1978
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What believers are saying
- September 3, 2026 North Houston project adds 749,000 industrial square feet.
- August 27, 2026 Atlanta medical campus assignment expands recurring leasing fees.
- July 7, 2026 Forte acquisition deepens Twin Cities platform and brokerage coverage.
What critics are saying
- March 30, 2026 antitrust settlement caps Balke Brown Transwestern at $295,000, signaling legal exposure.
- Chicago office vacancy remains 18.6% in Q1 2026, pressuring commissions.
- A 2027 office crash would hammer fees, recruiting, and enterprise value.
What makes Transwestern unique
- Transwestern combines brokerage, development, investment, and hospitality across U.S. markets.
- September 3, 2026 Hanover deal shows industrial execution plus capital partnerships.
- December 17, 2025 FrontierGen investment extends into AI data centers.
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Transwestern makes strategic investment in FrontierGen to accelerate data center and advanced manufacturing development. Consistent with its strategy to develop, own, and operate data centers across the United States, Transwestern has made an investment in FrontierGen, the Houston-based developer of "Infrastructure Nexus" campuses in South Texas. The partnership will accelerate the planning and build-out of infrastructure-ready, AI-focused data center and advanced manufacturing campuses across the region. This investment initiative
Transwestern has made a strategic investment in FrontierGen to accelerate development of data centres and advanced manufacturing facilities. The investment aims to support FrontierGen's expansion in these high-growth sectors as demand for data infrastructure and manufacturing capacity continues to increase. Further details about the investment amount and specific terms were not disclosed.
Transwestern JV to develop 529 KSF Savannah project. The two industrial buildings will be part of a larger campus. A joint venture between Transwestern Development Co. and Transwestern Investment Group - on behalf of a separately managed account - will develop Buildings 5 and 6 at North Gate Industrial Park in Savannah, Ga. The partnership acquired a 30.7-acre site for the facilities, which are set to total 528,560 square feet. Construction will start later this month. The project team includes The Conlan Co., Randall-Paulson Architects and Kern & Co. JLL will handle leasing efforts. Transwestern will develop a 240,560-square-foot rear-load building and a 288,000-square-foot front-load facility, each with 36-foot clear heights, dock-high loading doors and multiple points of ingress and egress. Additionally, the properties will have on-site trailer storage, 2,500 square feet of office suites and car parking spots. North Gate Industrial Park already has three completed buildings. Those total 853,019 square feet and traded last year, when Greenland Developers sold them to The Orden Co. The campus is 11 miles from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. Downtown Savannah is within 15 miles southeast. The facilities will have direct access to interstates 95 and 16. Savannah's growing industrial inventory. Savannah had 3.3 million square feet of industrial space under construction at the end of the third quarter, according to a CBRE report. Between July and September, 743,000 square feet came online and 431,000 square feet broke ground. In June, Capital Development Partners obtained financing for the development of three speculative industrial facilities totaling 1.2 million square feet. The warehouses will be part of Central Port Logistics Center. At the beginning of the year, a joint venture between Trinity Capital and Barings started work on the second phase of Horizon 16 Industrial Park. Plans call for 1.5 million square feet across six buildings at full build-out.
Brookfield sells southwest Waterfront development sites. Two prime plots next to the Waterfront Metro station that have been slated for development for two decades are on a new path forward after they sold last week. In the foreground, a rendering of the developments planned for 375 M and 425 M St. SW as conceived by Brookfield Transwestern Development Co. purchased two parcels at Fourth and M streets SW from Brookfield, D.C. deed records filed Wednesday show, and the companies confirmed to Bisnow. TDC paid $6.5M apiece for the plots at 375 and 425 M St. SW, which span 100K SF.
Shay comes to KLNB from Transwestern, bringing two decades of experience in multifamily investment sales throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.