Guest Experience and Quality Manager

The Hotel

Embark on a journey back in time to Vietnam in 1930s with Hôtel des Arts boutique lifestyle hotel in Saigon. Combining the classical charm of French Indochina with a sense of timeless chic that only the MGallery Collection can provide, the hotel is as much an art museum as it is a 5 star hotel. Hôtel des Arts Saigon invites guests to relive the romance of this bygone era in their luxury hotel which offers all the comforts of the 21st century.

Artistic flair in every corner

With feminine lines standing in striking contrast to the neighbouring office, the building itself is a modern work of art. Once inside, guests can peruse the owner’s personal collection of paintings and antiques, which adorn every wall and hall of this distinctive establishment. Each room in our luxury hotel offers the smooth lines of an art deco décor, finished with the classic artistic accents that our boutique lifestyle hotel in Saigon is renowned for. For a touch of artistic flair in unique and luxurious surroundings, Hôtel des Arts is the jewel of Saigon, a 5 star hotel that is simply beyond compare.

Be transported to a bygone era

From the style of our luxury hotel to the touches of times gone by dotted all around the property, Hôtel des Arts can transport you to an era long gone. The Social Club Restaurant and Rooftop Bar on the 23rd floor pays homage to an era of speakeasy gatherings while the Saigon Kitchen offers a stylish and unique design inspired by classic Asian street food markets. Taking a side-step to the French elegance on its journey to old world glamour, Café des Beaux Arts features light and bright décor where you can take your afternoon tea, surrounded by the soft sounds of piano music, while you enjoy a book from our library. Each culinary experience to be had in our 5 star hotel is nothing short of whimsical and transformative, from the menus to the fine surroundings in which we invite you to dine.

Award winning luxury hotel

With its exceptional customer experience, world class accommodation and luxury offerings, Hôtel des Arts Saigon is honored to take out the prestigious titles “Leading Lifestyle Hotel in Asia” by World Travel Awards, “Luxury Boutique Hotel” and “Luxury Architecture Design Hotel” in Southeast Asia by World Luxury Hotel Awards, and “Luxury Best Traditional Hotel” by Luxury Travel Guide Awards for its distinctive modern romantic design and unique bespoke services. For award-winning luxury in a 5 star hotel that prides itself on providing a glamorous and specialized service, look no further than our boutique lifestyle hotel in Saigon.

This position has as key objectives the continuous improvement and operational implementation of the Guest Experience and online reputation of the hotel by monitoring daily experience performance and Guest feedback, representing the Guest within the hotel and supporting GM on achieving positive results and Guest Experience targets. She/he will ensure full compliance of the Brand Assurance Program at the property, the implementation and follow-up of brand essentials (standards) and quality programs, including related training, with the aim of ensuring brand consistency and excellence, while supporting optimal Guest Experience, increased satisfaction and loyalty.

VOICE OF THE GUEST

• As the project leader, he/she should support GM to lead and grow all Guest Experience initiatives within the property
• Focuses on guest satisfaction when identifying business improvement opportunities
• Represent the guests’ voice within the hotel; centralize and analyse all available guest feedback concerning hotel products and services (directly from guests and tools: VOG, Local Measure, Accor Customer Digital Card, ResaVision…)
• Encourage staff to invite guests to answer to the hotel guest satisfaction survey
• Fully master guest satisfaction tools to monitor and drive the Reputation Performance Score (RPS) as well as CompIndex
• Manage responses to all guest feedback, as per AccorHotels’ recommendation
• Share guest insights during morning briefing to GM, HOD and employees: negative as well as positive feedbacks (develop recognition of employees)
• Performing root-cause analysis in each touch points, problem resolution & prevention plans, following-up on necessary actions and implementation
• Deep Dive on Member’s experience and satisfaction and work closely with the loyalty activist
• Conduct weekly HOD meeting to communicate performance, support and follow up on action plans
• Lead and develop a team of Guest Experience Champions within the hotel to infuse the guest experience centric culture and keep improving guest satisfaction to drive preferences
• Champion the internal communication of Guest Experience related matters to all employees including performance, best practices implemented in other AccorHotels (CXC)
• Conducts Guest Experience Management induction for new hires

BRAND ASSURANCE AND QUALITY PROGRAM

• Embrace and communicate the Brand Assurance Program and all new brand/quality initiatives effectively to all stakeholders
• Is fully knowledgeable about the brand essentials (standards), checks and ensures full implementation across all departments
• Review and follow up on action plans proposed by each department post-mystery audit
• Take the initiative to actively implement daily / weekly cross-department assessments and appoint staff and empower them in doing the task
• Conduct quarterly full self-assessments
• Set internal target to ensure the highest audit score during the mystery audit

OPERATIONAL: GUEST SERVICE

• Has regular and close interactions with hotel guests to collect feedbacks and ideas
• Ensure VIP guests’ experience meet expectation from pre-arrival to departure
• Train, direct and monitor guest relation team performance to ensure all standards and operation procedures are adhered to
• Takes pride in delivering a high-quality service
• Exhibit problem solving skill in efficient and timely manner, has ability to recover guest experience from negative into positive one
• Allows and supports team members to resolve internal and external guest service issues

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Take the leadership of a certain number of generic project of the hotel which are not especially attached to one specific department such as CSR, Hygiene, Single use Plastic
• Coordinate the application of these projects with all concerned departments
• Provide the necessary training and guidelines for the team to understand and execute these projects
• Ensure that expected certifications are achieved

OTHER INVOLVEMENT

• HEARTIST Guest Experience & Project Manager works closely with T&C to ensure the entire hotel team fully embrace Heartist service culture as it will help enhancing guest experience. Takes pride in posting Sparkle moments on the CXC (Customer Experience Community)
• ACDC: Guest Experience & Project Manager works closely with the ACDC Champion in embracing the platform, collecting and using guest preferences to personalize guest’s experience. Takes pride in posting Sparkle moments on the CXC (Customer Experience Community)
• Change Management: models a positive response to organizational change; leading the change process through coaching and communication
• Attend regional/country Guest Experience meetings/trainings as required

• Perfectly fluent in English and Vietnamese language, another language a plus
• Strives to be approachable at all times particularly during workloads peaks
• Analytical
• Team player
• Excellent communicator
• Able to influence
• Detail-oriented
• Innovative, creative
• Organized
• Accountable
• People-oriented
• Multi-disciplinary, multi-tasked
• Passion for people and for best-in-class service

• Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor Hotels worldwide
• Develop your talent through Accor’s learning programs
• Opportunity to grow within your property and across Accor’s Luxury hotels
• Ability to contribute to local community and make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility