About the Role
This role focuses on ensuring Front Office quality standards, policies, and procedures are met. It involves managing staff, guest satisfaction, and inter-departmental communication to provide an exceptional guest experience and encourage repeat business.
Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with Front Office quality standards, policies, and procedures.
- Verify staff attendance and adherence to employee handbook guidelines for appearance and uniform standards.
- Review and address issues from the MOD report to ensure guest satisfaction.
- Coordinate with Housekeeping to ensure VIP arrival rooms are ready for inspection by 1pm.
- Communicate late checkouts to Housekeeping promptly.
- Review the Standard of the Day with shift staff.
- Run arrivals report to verify room coding (rate code, source code) and review profile notes for special requests or guest information.
- Encourage staff to promote TripAdvisor reviews.
- Ensure Front of House areas are clean and clutter-free.
- Verify staff are at their assigned posts and that bell carts are clean and operational.
- Compose daily recaps for all departments, detailing issues and follow-up areas.
- Anticipate guest needs and exceed expectations to ensure memorable stays and encourage repeat business.
Requirements
- Must ensure all Front Office quality standards are complied with.
- Must ensure policies and procedures are consistently applied.
- Must ensure all staff members are present for their shift.
- Must ensure staff are in compliance with employee handbook guidelines for appearance and uniform standards.
- Must review MOD report from prior shift and follow up with issues relating to the department and the guest.
- Must communicate with HSKP to have all VIP arrival rooms ready for inspection by 1pm.
- Must communicate any late checkouts to HSKP as soon as possible.
- Must review the Standard of the Day with shift staff.
- Must run arrivals report and verify all rooms are coded with correct rate code, source code.
- Must review profile notes informing of special requests, late arrivals or other pertinent guest information.
- Must encourage all staff to mention and promote TripAdvisor reviews to be completed.
- Must ensure all areas of the Front of House are clean and clutter free.
- Must ensure all staff are posted at their correct posts.
- Must ensure all bell carts are in clean and operational condition.
- Must compose daily recaps to all departments with any issues of the day and any areas requiring follow up.
- Must "Anticipate the guest's needs and exceed their expectations" hotel motto to ensure all guests have a great stay and return for years to come.
Skills
- Quality Standards Compliance
- Policy and Procedure Application
- Staff Management
- Guest Satisfaction
- Inter-departmental Communication
- Reporting and Follow-up
- Room Status Verification
- Guest Request Management
- Promotional Skills
- Cleanliness Standards
- Operational Readiness
- Daily Reporting
- Guest Anticipation
- Exceeding Expectations
