Job description
Location: Bengaluru, India
Organization: Prestige Hospitality Ventures Limited
About Prestige Hospitality Ventures Limited: Prestige Hospitality Ventures Limited (PHVL), part of Prestige Group, is a leading hospitality asset owner with multiple operational assets currently (~1500 keys) and has ambitious plans to grow by ~4x in the coming few years.
With marquee assets and strong brand partnerships, PHVL is now entering a transformational phase — building hotels at scale, speed, and efficiency through a “manufacturing-inspired” approach to design and construction.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Strategic Reengineering & Scaleup Manager to drive a fundamental shift in how PHVL develops its hospitality portfolio.
The role will focus exclusively on the pre-opening phase (design, procurement, and construction) and is tasked with delivering faster time-to-market and better cost efficiency — thereby enhancing project returns and strengthening long-term asset value.
This is a critical role, reporting directly to the CEO with potential to create a significant impact on PHVL’s growth trajectory.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Lead an industrialized approach to Hospitality Development
- Reengineer design and construction processes to significantly crunch development timelines and reduce total cost
- Champion a “manufacturing mindset” — identify opportunities for standardized, modular and repeatable processes across projects
2.Design Standardization and Smart Customization
- Lead standardization of low customer impact elements (e.G. non-customer-facing elements such as shafts, MEP systems, back-of-house layouts)
- Enable design differentiation for select high customer impact elements (e.G., lobbies, F&B concepts, interiors)
- Ensure stage gated design approvals and BIM readiness before start of construction
3.Portfolio-First approach:
- Drive portfolio-level synergies across design, procurement, and execution
4.Vendor and Partner Strategy:
- Build strategic partnerships with a select pool of designers, consultants, and vendors to ensure alignment on design principles leading to speed, and cost efficiency
- Evaluate co-locating design teams to accelerate turnaround and institutionalize PHV design principles
5.Innovation and Off-site manufacturing:
- Champion opportunities for prefabrication and modularization where IRR accretive (via reduction of onsite labor requirement, activity completion timelines)
6.Change management and Capability building:
- Overcome resistance to new practices by training, reinforcing and building organizational conviction
- Drive cultural transformation in how the organization thinks about hospitality portfolio development
7.Strategic Procurement for Magin recovery:
- Champion opportunities to standardize/consolidate procurement across projects to unlock scale benefits
- Lead value engineering opportunities via benchmarked backed rationalization/performance-neutral substitution (e.G. local made items vs imported items)
- Collaborate with top vendor partners to identify and/or create cost take out opportunities including process mapping, optimizing cost structure etc.
8.Governance and Execution discipline:
- Set up stage-gate governance and project control systems to ensure timelines and budgets are met
- Institutionalize feedback loops and playbooks for continuous improvement
9.Strategic Impact:
- Reduce time-to-market and recover margins during development
- Improve project IRRs and enhance long-term asset value from an owner’s perspective
In summary, this role is about transforming Prestige Hospitality Ventures’ hotel development engine -from bespoke, one-off projects to an industrialized, scalable model that delivers speed, efficiency, and margin recovery at portfolio scale.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 12–18 years of experience in real estate, hospitality development, or related asset-heavy industries.
MBA/PGDM from a reputed institution strongly preferred - Proven track record in cost optimization, design standardization, procurement, and project management
- Experience with asset-owner perspectives (ROI/IRR, margin recovery, time-to-market)
- Strong change management skills — ability to influence, train, and transform organizations.
Required Skill Profession
Operations Specialties Managers