Job Description
Job Summary:
Our Client seeks a Front Office Manager to oversee front desk operations, ensuring smooth guest experiences. Who will be Responsible for managing staff, handling guest inquiries, overseeing check-ins and check-outs, and coordinating with other departments. This role ensures high service standards and efficient front desk operations.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in the selection of front
office personnel.
- Schedules the front
office staff.
- Supervises workload during shifts.
- Evaluate the job performance of each
front office employee.
- Maintains working relationships and
communicates with all departments.
- Maintains master key control.
- Verifies that accurate room status
information is maintained and properly communicated.
- Resolves guest problems quickly,
efficiently, and courteously.
- Updates group information. Maintains,
monitors, and prepares group requirements. Relays information to appropriate
personnel.
- Reviews and completes credit limit
report.
- Works within the allocated budget for
the front office.
- Receives information from the previous shift
manager and passes on pertinent details to the oncoming manager.
- Checks cashiers in and out and verifies
banks and deposits at the end of each shift.
Requirements
- Upholds the hotel's commitment to
hospitality.
- Analyze rate variance, monitor credit
report and maintain close observation of daily house count. Monitor the selling
status of the house daily. I.e. flash report, allowance etc.
- Monitor high-balance guests and take
appropriate action.
- Ensure implementation of all Hotel
policies and house rules.
- Operate all aspects of Front Office
computer system, including software maintenance, report generation and
analysis, and simple configuration changes.
- Prepare revenue and occupancy
forecasting.
- Ensure that employees are, at all
times, attentive, friendly, helpful and courteous to all guest’s managers and
other employees.
- Monitor all V.I.P.'s special guests and
requests.
- Maintain required parts of all front
office and stationery supplies.
- Review daily front office work and
activity reports generated by Night Audit.
Review the Front office log book and Guest
feedback forms daily.
- Maintain an organized and comprehensive
filing system with documentation of purchases, vouchsafing, schedules,
forecasts, reports and tracking logs.
- Perform other duties as
requested by management.