MANHATTAN GROUP
Branded luxury hospitality search, since 2001
We place general managers, executive committees and corporate leadership into branded luxury hotels and resorts. Founded in Melbourne in 2001 and led by the same founder since, with our centre of gravity in Asia Pacific.
Continuity
Twenty-five years is not the claim.
What it bought is.
A quarter of a century in one sector, in one region, under one founder, buys a specific thing: a view of who is good. It was formed across two full cycles of the Asia Pacific luxury market, through two downturns and a pandemic, and it rests on a network built before most of the people in it were senior.
That is what a client engages.
Specialism
Branded luxury is a specialism,
not an adjective
A branded luxury mandate is not a general hospitality search at a higher salary. It requires fluency in brand standards and in the relationship between owner and operator, capability in pre-opening, and candidates who can move between jurisdictions and cultures without the standard moving with them.
We have done nothing else since 2001.
How we workDiscretion
We do not
publish
our clients
That a search is running is itself information about a property. It tells a market that leadership is changing, and it belongs to the owner rather than to us. A client who finds his own name used as marketing collateral has learned exactly how his confidence will be handled.
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