Front Office Manager

  • Full-time
  • Job-Category: Rooms
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Job Schedule: Full-Time

Company Description

Novotel Jakarta Mangga Dua Square, premium midscale hotel located in North Jakarta business and entertainment district. The hotel's 362 guest rooms are equipped with its rejuvenated Olympic size swimming pool that will provide the guest with the best experience stay. For array of international buffet selections, Food Exchange offers social dining experience. While for your meeting and social events, our 2 ballrooms and 23 meeting rooms can host up to 1,800 delegates and ibis Styles Jakarta Mangga Dua Square is a stylish economy hotel with unique and vibrant design. Our 211 dynamic rooms allow the guest to sleep with comfort, while enjoying affordable culinary selections at sTREATs Restaurant. The hotel is 5 minutes to Jakarta Kota Train Station, 10 minutes to JIExpo Kemayoran or Ancol Dreamland and 30 minutes to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. For meeting and event, we provide 3 Milkyway rooms that can be combined into a large ballroom for 500 delegates

Job Description

  • Participate in daily operations meetings to liaise and coordinate closely with support departments regarding general administration and operations issues
  • Check that all Front Office employees report to work punctually and are well groomed before each of their shift
  • Conduct daily briefings and ensure that all pertinent information is well received by team members
  • Communicate all log entries by Duty Managers to ensure that all issues and concerns raised are closed with thorough follow up actions
  • Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the Front Office and that departmental standards and procedures set out are strictly adhered to
  • Liaise with Reservations Department in a high house situation and recommend actions to be taken. Check on closed-out dates to ensure efforts are made to achieve 100% occupancy with the highest yield possible
  • Coordinate full house situations and makes all necessary arrangements to handle overbooking and pledge relocates
  • Liaise with Finance Department to ensure that credit procedures are properly carried out
  • Analyze market trend, review rooming list and motivate Front Office employees to up-sell rooms with the view of achieving higher yield and increasing revenue
  • Coordinate and monitor major group movements for meetings and conferences, and ensure that action plans cover all areas of operations handling
  • Makes courtesy calls to VIPS, long stay and corporate guest to obtain feedback and pro-act to handle any lapses in service standards
  • Handle all guest correspondences and ensure prompt follow-ups
  • Manage daily room inventory and coordinate with Housekeeping to ensure requested rooms are cleaned according to arrival times
  • Interview, select and recruit Front Office employees
  • Identify and develop team members with potential
  • Conduct performance review with the team
  • Constantly monitor team members’ appearance, attitude and degree of professionalism
  • Prepare detailed induction programs for new employees
  • Develop, conduct maintain all staff training programs for team members, focusing on their development needs, providing them with new skills to meet the changing needs of the business
  • Prepare weekly staff schedules keeping in mind anticipated business, operating budgets and standards of service
  • Prepare payroll and gratuity reports
  • Conduct monthly departmental meetings to provide information to team members, obtain their feedback, rectify operation issues and provide a regular forum for department communication

Qualifications

  • Strong leadership, interpersonal and training skills
  • Good communication and customer contact skills
  • Results and service oriented with an eye for details
  • Ability to multi-task, work well in stressful & high-pressure situations
  • A team player & builder
  • A motivator & self-starter
  • Well-presented and professionally groomed at all times

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