Executive Lounge Manager (Pre-Opening) - Conrad Kuala Lumpur

Negotiable
Experience
5-10 years
Job Type
Full Time
Location
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Job Description

An Executive Lounge
Manager
serving Hilton Brands
is always working on behalf of our Guests and working with other Team Members.
To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviors,
skills, and values that follow:

  • 3 or 5 years in a luxury
    hotel.

  • Able to perform moderately complex
    mathematical calculations without error. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Able to read, listen and communicate effectively
    in English, both verbally and in writing to meet business
    needs.

  • Able to access and accurately input
    information using a moderately complex computer system.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Strong leadership and communication
    skills.

  • Able to effectively deal with internal
    and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact
    and diplomacy to defuse anger, collect accurate information and resolve
    conflicts.

  • Good interpersonal skills to provide
    overall guest satisfaction.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Able to work under
    pressure and deal with stressful situations during busy
    periods.

style="font-size: 11pt;">An Executive
Lounge Manager
serving Hilton
Brands is always working on behalf of our Guests and working with other Team
Members. To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude,
behaviors, skills, and values that follow:

  • 3 or 5 years in a luxury
    hotel.

  • Able to perform moderately complex
    mathematical calculations without error. 

  • class="ortl-align-justify">

    style="font-size: 11pt;">Able to read, listen and communicate effectively
    in English, both verbally and in writing to meet business
    needs.

  • Able to access and accurately input
    information using a moderately complex computer system.

  • class="ortl-align-justify">

    style="font-size: 11pt;">Strong leadership and communication
    skills.

  • Able to effectively deal with internal
    and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact
    and diplomacy to defuse anger, collect accurate information and resolve
    conflicts.

  • Good interpersonal skills to provide
    overall guest satisfaction.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Able to work under
    pressure and deal with stressful situations during busy
    periods.

style="font-size: 11pt;">An Executive
Lounge Manager
serving Hilton
Brands is always working on behalf of our Guests and working with other Team
Members. To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude,
behaviors, skills, and values that follow:

  • 3 or 5 years in a luxury
    hotel.

  • Able to perform moderately complex
    mathematical calculations without error. 

  • class="ortl-align-justify">

    style="font-size: 11pt;">Able to read, listen and communicate effectively
    in English, both verbally and in writing to meet business
    needs.

  • Able to access and accurately input
    information using a moderately complex computer system.

  • class="ortl-align-justify">

    style="font-size: 11pt;">Strong leadership and communication
    skills.

  • Able to effectively deal with internal
    and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact
    and diplomacy to defuse anger, collect accurate information and resolve
    conflicts.

  • Good interpersonal skills to provide
    overall guest satisfaction.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Able to work under
    pressure and deal with stressful situations during busy
    periods.

style="font-size: 11pt;">As the Executive Floor Manager, you will be responsible
for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

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style="font-size: 11pt;">Complete the registration process by inputting
and retrieving information from the computer system, confirming pertinent
information including number of guests and room rates. 

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style="font-size: 11pt;">Make appropriate selection of rooms based on guest
needs, coding electronic keys and non–verbally confirming room numbers
and rates. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Promote
    and administer Hilton marketing programs such as Hilton Honors to arriving
    guests, ensuring that guests know location of rooms containing room keys, tokens
    of appreciation and gifts to guests, etc.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Ensure that rooms and services provided by the hotel
    are correctly accounted for within guests’ statements, assisting guests
    with check out payments or charges, accepting and recording vouchers, credit
    card transactions, traveler’s checks and other forms of payment, converting
    foreign currency at current posted rates. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Greet customers immediately with a friendly and sincere
    welcome using a positive and clear speaking voice, listening to understand
    requests, responding with appropriate actions and provide accurate information
    such on outlet hours, special VIP programs, events, etc.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Receive special requests from guests and respond
    appropriately or forward requests to appropriate team members for decisions
    and actions.

  • Promptly answer
    the telephone and E-Mail inquiries, inputting messages into the computer
    and advise other team members on special guests’ needs. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Retrieve messages and communicate the content
    to guests, retrieving mail, packages and facsimiles or other special items
    for customers as requested. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Record guests’ complaints, conducting thorough research
    to develop the most effective solutions and negotiate
    results. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Listen
    and extend assistance in order to resolve problems such as price conflicts,
    insufficient heating or air conditioning, etc. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Remain calm and alert especially during emergency
    situations and heavy hotel activity. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Plan and implement detailed steps by using experienced
    judgment and discretion.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Take
    on an active role in the team by being kind, cooperative, and helpful, never
    forgetting the person behind the guest.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Actively take part in training where and when required,
    attending formal training sessions and on the job trainings to ensure standards
    and develop skills and abilities. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Contribute to the hotel and team by sharing new ideas
    and suggestions for improvements, being innovative and creative to provide
    quality service and customer care to team members and guests.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Take on an active role in the Executive Floor team,
    ensuring effective communication and working as a team in order to reach goals
    and targets.

  • Create a warm
    and welcoming arrival for guests, ensuring that they feel expected
    and immediately “at-home” when they arrive.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Check-in guests in accordance with their reservation
    details, ensuring that the registration card is completed, reservation
    information confirmed, Hilton Honors and Frequent Flyer numbers enquired about,
    and method of payment secured.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Ensure
    that guests are escorted to their rooms and that hotel facilities and room
    features are explained, and luggage is delivered in a prompt
    manner.

  • Handle complaints promptly
    and efficiently, taking the necessary action, informing the Duty Manager
    or Guest Relations Manager to follow-up where
    appropriate. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Follow-up with all guests to ensure satisfaction with problem
    resolution.

  • Maintain awareness
    of guests’ profiles and specific preferences, ensuring that they are acted upon
    for each reservation.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Ensure
    that VIP guests are treated personally and recognized as
    an individual.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Assist
    the Guest Service Manager by blocking rooms according to guests'
    preferences. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Print
    welcome letters from the Guest Relation Manager, and for 1st time stay Hilton
    Honors guests, arrange welcome cards and ensure that they are placed in guests’
    rooms or presented at the time of arrival.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Coordinate with Amenity Butlers to arrange in-room
    amenity set-ups according to VIP level and for special occasions – i.e.
    Birthdays and Honeymoon.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Facilitate the operation of the VIP gift amenities menu by offering it
    to guests, ensuring that VIPs receive their chosen amenities.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Liaise with Sales, Reservations and the Business
    Development team to handle corporate guests.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Promote Hilton Honors and its associated benefits
    to guests who are not already enrolled in the program, ensuring that existing
    Hilton Honors members receive personal and professional service that recognizes
    them as important guests and that their benefits
    are received.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Provide
    extra services for VIP guests including offering of refreshments, cold towels
    and other courtesies upon arrival.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Carry out ticket reconfirmation, safari bookings
    and make guest reservations when required.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Ensure a prompt and efficient departure by settling
    guest’s accounts as per billing and reservation instructions, ensuring that all
    guests’ folios are correct.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Input
    information into Fidelio regarding guests, ensuring accuracy and that all
    details are completed, and the information can be clearly understood by other
    team members.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Apply
    Hilton brand standards in each and every action, acting as a role model
    and example of how the standards should be carried out in a practical
    setting.

  • Knowledgeable of
    the hotel’s facilities and services as well as basic knowledge of Hilton
    International, MEAP and other properties in China.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Keep up to date with information on facilities,
    attractions, and places of interests, sights and activities in and around
    hotel.

  • Ensure that the overall
    appearance of the Executive lounge is neat and tidy at all
    times.

  • Effectively communicate,
    coordinate and cooperate with Housekeeping, F&B, Engineering
    and IT.

  • Report problems with hotel
    systems, hardware or facilities to the appropriate parties and follow-up
    to ensure that corrective actions have been taken.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Prepare the Executive Lounge for F&B service,
    monitoring service and preparation areas to ensure cleanliness and presentation
    standards.

  • Ensure that the Executive
    Floor Manager is kept aware and up to date with operational
    issues.

  • Pass on information
    effectively, ensuring that all necessary details are communicated to
    the intended person, any pending action is completed, and guest satisfaction
    is confirmed. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Attend
    daily briefings, shift handovers, meetings and read the logbook on a daily
    basis.

  • Ensure that the day-to-day
    functions of the Executive Lounge are completed, including but not limited
    to checklists, trace reports, credit limit checks, and online
    back-ups. 

  • style="text-align: justify;">Monitor
    the inventory for the Executive Lounge’s stock including DVDs and CDs to ensure
    that all items provided to guests are returned and are accounted
    for.

  • Check registration cards,
    information on meetings and functions, billing instructions, and reservation
    backups to ensure that all information received is acted upon
    accordingly.

  • Ensure that the Executive
    Lounge’s stock is managed and not wasted, maintaining costs
    were able.

  • Keep up to date and aware
    of competitor activities in order to be informed.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Adhere to the hotel selling strategy of Demand Based
    Pricing and maintain rate integrity by offering clear, transparent, and value
    for money rates to guests. 

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Comply with Health & Safety, Emergency Management,
    the Disaster manual, and Fire procedures and regulations, taking part in
    the fire team when and where directed.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Adhere strictly to standard cash handling procedures,
    ensuring to balance float and drop the required amount, managing cash, credit
    card transactions, city ledgers, vouchers and all other forms of payment
    correctly.

  • Adhere to the company’s
    credit policy at all times when handling cash, credit card transactions, city
    ledgers, providing currency exchange services, LPO and third party payments
    for rooms, meetings, F&B and any other charges that may be incurred
    by guests.

  • Provide safety deposit
    boxes to guests, ensuring that guests’ valuables are safe and secure at all
    times.

  • Follow-up on outstanding
    accounts to ensure no loss of revenue and secure method of payment for upcoming
    reservations.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Maintain the efficiency of departure by checking all guests’ folios
    to ensure accuracy of charges.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Upsell
    rooms to higher room and rate categories, ensuring maximum revenue generation
    from each guest.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Maintain awareness of sales opportunities within the hotel, maximizing
    revenue in an ethical and responsible manner, ensuring that guests receive value
    for money and adhere to Hilton brand standards.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Attempt to communicate with guests in guests’ native
    language, if applicable.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Remain
    calm and alert, especially during emergency and heavy hotel activity, resolving
    complications such as location changes or credit issues.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Adhere to the hotel’s security and emergency policies
    and procedures.

  • style="text-align: justify;">Ensure
    that all team members have a complete understanding of and adhere to the hotel’s
    team member rules and regulations.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">Carry out any other reasonable duties
    and responsibilities as assigned.

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    style="font-size: 11pt;">The Management reserves the right to make changes
    to this job description at its sole discretion and without advance
    notice.

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