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Reception Team Member

  • Ipswich (Suffolk)
  • Administration

Job description

Key tasks

Overview of duties
 Takes care of guests from their arrival through to their departure,
 Contributes to guest satisfaction at all times by providing high quality services throughout their stay.
 Helps meet the department's quantitative and qualitative targets
 Promotes the hotel's offer. Helps meet the department's quantitative targets through his/her sales efforts,
 Implements brand and Group projects and identity features (@ll the keys to the city, service certification, Le Club, ABA etc)

Main Responsibilities

Customer relations
 Welcomes guests as soon as they arrive with due care and attention,
 Helps encourage customer loyalty by developing friendly, personalised relationships,
 Anticipates guests' needs and takes them into consideration,
 Handles any guest complaints and/or remarks; provides a response as soon as possible,
 Conveys the hotel image,
 Helps bring certain brand concepts to life on a day-to-day basis (@ll the keys to the city, ABA, Le Club, etc),
 Respects the reservation commitments in full.

Professional techniques / Production
 Carries out all operations concerning guest arrival and departure in compliance with internal procedures,
 Informs guests about the formalities, any special conditions relating to their stay and the services available,
 Handles phone calls,
 Applies the procedures of internal audit,
 Passes on information as necessary to other departments (floor staff, technical etc) and to other members of the front desk team,
 Ensures that all guest documentation is up-to-date and available,
 Makes the update of the information,
 Handle reservations,

Commercial / Sales
 Promotes the hotel's range of services in order to increase sales,
 Applies and actively supports the hotel's pricing policy in order to increase REVPAR,
 Promotes the brand and/or Group loyalty programme, adapting the sales pitch to suit the guest's needs,
 Encourages synergy within the marketplace by applying the inter-hotel coordination policy,

Management and administration
 Respects the procedures governing invoicing and cash operation,
 Manages the cash under his/her responsibility,
 May be asked to prepare and send reminder invoices to debtors,



Hygiene / Personal safety / Environment
 Ensures that the workplace remains clean and tidy,
 Knows 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),

Profile

Education / Professional experience

 Vocational diploma or degree in hospitality - food & beverage and/or anyone eager to work in the sector regardless of their educational background, pending validation of their skills,
 Computer literate (Windows environment) Desired: Opera, TarsWeb,
 Fluent in English,

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Desired profile

Skills

Level of Education Vocational education
Areas of study Hospitality Management
Professional experiences 1 to 2 years
Languages essential English

Essential and optional requirements

Skills / Qualities
 Positive,
 Good interpersonal skills, guest oriented and service minded,
 Team spirit,
 Good listening skills and ability to anticipate,
 Good presentation and confident speaking skills,
 Dynamic,
 Sales oriented,
 Copes well under pressure,
 Strong sense of ethics,
 Autonomous and sense of responsibility,

·  Excel
·  Word
·  Opéra

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