Accor Looking for Welcome Centre Supervisor at United Arab Emirates Full Time

Company Description

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Job Description

Overview of duties

. Ensures guests have a smooth running stay at the hotel
. Organises the customer welcome and care provided by his/her team
. Manages and motivates the Welcome Centre team in order to provide a high standard of service for customers
. Helps meet the department’s quantitative and qualitative targets

Main responsibilities

Customer relations

. Develops high quality relationships with guests throughout their stay
. Handles any guest complaints or contentious issues that cannot be settled directly by team members and provides a rapid solution

Professional techniques / Production

. Takes part in, organises and supervises guest arrivals and departures with the front office teams . Ensures that guest documentation and information is available and up-to-date
. Ensures that the pricing policy and internal audit procedures are duly applied . Supervises the management of debtors, group and individual guest invoicing and cash operations

. Keeps track of the standard of services delivered, based on guest comments and quality audits . Updates and checks that information in the directory and e-directory is up-to-date
. Supervises the standard of customer relations on a daily basis

Team management

. Develops employees motivation and team spirit by creating a good working atmosphere
. Is involved in recruitment
. Integrates and trains employees, providing support for skills development

. Applies labour legislation . Ensures that employees are well presented (uniforms, personal hygiene etc.)

Commercial / Sales

. Contributes to synergy within the marketplace by promoting the inter-hotel coordination policy.

. Makes sure that the hotel’s pricing policy and sales pitches are duly applied in order to optimise REVPAR
. Ensures the brand and/or Group’s loyalty programme is promoted to guests.

. Motivates and drives the team to attain the department’s quantative targets
. Is responsive in implementing the sales priorities for the day, as initiated by the Front Office Manager

Management and administration

. Ensures that invoicing and cash operations procedures are respected in line with internal audit reference guidelines
. Helps update dashboard charts (revenue, occupancy rates, average room rates, activity forecasts, headcount planning, etc.)
. Ensures security of revenue and money flows
. Undertakes any necessary actions in order to recover the debt.

Hygiene / Personal safety / Environment

. Ensures that the workplace remains clean and tidy
. Applies and ensures application of the hotel’s security regulations (in case of fire etc.)
. Ensures the safety of people and property in the hotel
. Respects the hotel’s commitments to the Environment Charter (saving energy, recycling, sorting waste etc)

Qualifications

. Vocational diploma to degree level in hospitality – food & beverage
. Previous experience working at the front desk
. Computer literate in the Windows environment, PMS, Hotix, Tars, with an aptitude for new technologies
. Fluent in the national language
. Business English and a third language would be a plus

Skills:

• Guest oriented and service minded
• Leadership
• Good listening and communication skills
• Self confidence
• Excellent presentation
• Sales oriented
• Flexibility
• Ability to work under pressure and physical staying power
• Responsiveness