Company Description
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a renowned luxury hotel brand with a global presence and a commitment to creating lasting memories for our guests. With over 30,000 colleagues worldwide, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional service, fostering a culture of excellence, and making special happen.
Hotel Overview:
Located in the heart of downtown Fairmont New Orleans will be an impressive new addition to Fairmont’s luxury portfolio, offering 250 luxury guest rooms, four food & drink venues, a rooftop pool with expansive views of the city, more than 19,000 square feet of function space, and a 10,000 square-foot spa.
This property is destined to become an illustrious destination in the Central Business District, nearby the city’s renowned and historic French Quarter.
Job Description
The Night Manager is responsible for overseeing the hotel’s overnight operation and serving as the Manager on Duty, ensuring exceptional guest service, operational excellence, and the safety and security of guests and colleagues.
- Understand and promote the hotel’s vision, leaders job results list and departmental vision;
- Provide supervision for the entire Front Office team, which includes front desk agents, telephone operators, club floor, concierge and bell/door persons;
- Handle all guest related issues and oversee and address any challenges in any area of the hotel to ensure during the Manager on Duty shift
- Coach and counsel the Front Office team to provide exemplary guest service;
- Lead by example and sustain an environment of Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, Empowerment and positive employees relations.
- Develop and maintain standards for the department, while adhering to Fairmont’s core standards;
- Provides direction and support to line associates in their daily tasks relating to their positions.
- Communicate and liaise effectively with other leaders in the department and hotel;
- Energize the brand by promoting our guests loyalty program: Fairmont President Club;
- Ensures proper staffing and scheduling of all front office colleagues in accordance to productivity guidelines;
- Communicates through pre-shift, logs, emails and departmental operational meetings all pertinent information for the respective shift and areas of operation;
- Supports daily and weekly selling strategy in accordance with yield recommendations and promotes maximizing of revenue and occupancy on a daily basis;
- Ensures all daily, monthly and quarterly reporting is completed on a timely basis;
- Ensures review of daily payroll punches and edits as necessary, records time and attendance occurrences for all associates in Time and Attendance Log;
- Ensuring that all job check lists have been completed daily: Front Desk AM and PM, Fairmont President Club, Royal Service, Concierges and Guest Services Coordinator;
- Review three day forecast and adjusting staffing levels as needed;
- Review, verify and react to all group resumes, checking billing, room types, arrival, departure dates, and VIP designations. Ensure that each of them has a checklist attached and it has been completed. Make sure that all parking requirements are sent to the Valet Parking Supervisor weekly and a follow up is done daily;
- Adhere to and sign off on all clerk cash handling, balancing of shift closings, and adjustments;
- Maximize our brand by promoting our upsells programs and managing guest’s appeasements;
- Ensure all welcome calls and reservation confirmation calls are being completed by Royal Service daily and it is being maintained consistently;
- Complete with accuracy and timeliness any and all project related work designated by Director of Front Office Operations;
- Completion of Night GSA’s duties when working the overnight shift alone.
- Ability to stand for periods of time.
- Ability to lift up to 80 pounds of luggage with late arrivals.
Qualifications
- Hotel Management Degree and two to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 2 years in a leadership position in rooms, including a solid working knowledge of the Front Office Operation.
- Must be a strong team player with proven leadership, development training, team building, problem solving and delegating skills. Proven ability to adapt to change and implement change.
- Excellent motivational, interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized, career and results oriented with the ability to be flexible with hours, assignments and additional duties.
- Passionate about Guest Service and able to deliver excellent guest service skills.
- Have thorough knowledge of emergency policies, procedures and systems and experience in applying knowledge.
- Operational knowledge and use of Property Manager, Word and Excel is preferred.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals;
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
