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Berkshire Hotels Group
430 Main Street
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 01267
Phone:(267)300-6414
430 Main Street
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 01267
Phone:(267)300-6414
Additional Business Name: Holiday Inn Express Great Barrington
| Job Title: | |
| Front Desk Manager | |
| Salary Range: | Location: | Lenox, Great Barrington, Stockbridge |
| Job Type: | Category: | Full Time | Hotel & Restaurant |
| Education Level: | Work Experience: |
| Some High School Coursework | 2+ |
| Description: | |
| Holiday Inn Express and Suites Great Barrington REPORTS TO: General Manager SUPERVISES DIRECTLY: All front office personnel including guest reception, concierge, reservations, PBX and bell staffs. Purpose for the Position: To assume full responsibility for the management of the day-to-day and long-term hotel guest reception, reservations and telephone service operations, while maintaining established revenue, expense and quality standards. To work with the General Manager to ensure an efficient operation that provides levels of service that consistently exceeds visitor, guest and ownership expectations. Essential Responsibilities: 1. To ensure that guests are greeted, checked in and allocated rooms promptly and courteously. 2. To ensure that check-in procedures are strictly adhered to and that the correct address and charge out details are obtained from each guest. 3. To be readily available at all times to deal with problems or complaints. 4. To ensure that rooms have been serviced and maintained to the standards established by the Company. 5. To ensure maximum room occupancy within agreed overbooking policy. 6. To ensure effective liaison between reservations and front office staff with other departments (e.g. housekeeping). 7. To ensure that all charges are correctly entered on the guest's bill and that this is up to date at all times. 8. To ensure that credit control procedures are strictly adhered to, that no bills exceed the stipulated limit without prior approval and that written confirmation, purchase orders, or order numbers are on file. 9. To ensure that accounts are balanced daily. 10. To ensure effective and speedy check-out procedures. 11. To ensure that luggage is delivered to and collected from rooms speedily. 12. To ensure that inquiries, messages, bookings are dealt with courteously and efficiently. 13. To ensure that all Front of House staff are correctly dressed at all times. 14. To ensure that all Front of House areas are clean and orderly at all times. 15. To ensure that newspapers and parcels are delivered to rooms without delay. 16. To ensure that incoming and outgoing telephone calls are handled promptly and courteously. 17. To ensure maximum security of all items left in safety deposit boxes. 18. To carry out systematic checks of all Front of House areas for maintenance requirements, repairs or refurbishing, ensuring that these are acted on without delay. 19. To ensure that the Hotel Entrance is easily accessible to cars and taxis at all times. 20. To hold regular performance appraisals with all staff, identifying areas for development and training needs and ensuring that this training is affected. 21. To carry out or ensure that regular On-the-Job training is taking place to agreed standards. 22. To hold regular meetings with all Heads of Department. To ensure that manning levels are correct and these are not exceeded without permission. 23. To ensure that the most suitably qualified person is appointed in the event of a vacancy - wherever possible this should be an internal promotion. 24. To ensure maximum security in all areas under your control. 25. To act as Duty Manager when required. 26. To attend Management Meetings as required. 27. To ensure accurate and timeliness submission of all reports and administrative work. 28. To prepare and submit on the required format annual budgetary information and updates as required. 29. To monitor trends within the industry and make suggestions how these could be implemented. | |
| Requirements: | |
| To do this kind of work, you must be able to: • Read and interpret business records and statistical reports. • Use mathematical skills to interpret financial information and prepare budgets. • Analyze and interpret established policies. • Understand government regulations covering business operation. • Make business decisions based on production reports and similar facts as well as on your own experience and personal opinions. • See differences in widths and lengths of lines such as those on graphs. • Deal with the general public, customers, associates, union and government officials with tact and courtesy. • Plan and organize the work of others. • Change activity frequently and cope with interruptions. • Speak and write clearly. • Accept full responsibility for managing an activity. • Complete all assigned tasks, reports, projects etc. in a professional manner and on an on-time basis. • Be available for work evenings, weekends and holidays. | |