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5th Generation (5G) millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are enabled through directive and narrow beams that mitigate these frequencies' challenging propagation conditions. In the future, 5G-Advanced and 6G will go even higher in the frequency spectrum, to allow for progressively larger bandwidths. The need for a larger number of narrower beams will put a strain in the current analog beamforming (BF) based beam management (BM) framework. This paper proposes an alternative signalling method for BM to parallelize the beam sweeping procedure using a hybrid analog-digital (HAD) BF architecture to enable mmWave signal multiplexing with a manageable overhead. The proposed solution is shown to significantly enhance beam alignment performance while reducing signalling overhead and latency.