Director of Rooms
- Full-time
- Job-Category: Rooms
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Schedule: Full-Time
Company Description
We are seeking an experienced Director of Rooms for The Hoxton, Madrid.
The Hoxton is coming to Madrid, a vibrant city of historic streets, buzzing plazas, creative energy, and a lively food scene. Located centrally on Plaza de Santa Ana, the hotel will feature 192 guest-rooms across five classic Hox categories, an open-plan lobby with all-day coffee, rooftop bar Cayo Coco for sundown cocktails, authentic Italian restaurant Bambini Club, and The Apartment - The Hoxton’s signature meeting and event space.
More about us…
The Hoxton is a series of open-house hotels, each in a neighbourhood that we love. Ever since we opened our first hotel in Shoreditch, we’ve never just been about offering a bed for the night. We want to be more than that: proving style doesn’t need to be sacrificed for good value and providing a place where guests can hang out alongside the locals and submerse themselves in the neighbourhood with vibrant, welcoming public spaces
What’s in it for you…
- The opportunity to work with an exciting new hospitality concept in Madrid and have a real impact on its success.
- Join an innovative, fast-growing, international group that’s committed to not just building new hotels but building a global brand.
- The chance to challenge the norm and work in an environment that is both creative and rewarding.
- Become part of a team that’s very passionate about creating great hospitality experiences and building a portfolio of brands.
- Great discounts across the entire Ennismore family (which you get to keep even if you decide to leave us!).
- A competitive package and plenty of opportunity for development.
Job Description
What you’ll do…
- To take overall responsibility for the management of the housekeeping, maintenance and front office teams, ensuring guests are well cared for and guest expectations are exceeded.
- To ensure that all hotel standard operating procedures are trained and adhered to.
- To own the rooms P&L contributing to annual budget planning and ensuring expenses are kept in line.
- To own all quality evaluation processes and strive to improve all qualitative metrics.
- To take ownership of problem solving and ensure guest satisfaction levels are the highest possible.
- To pro-actively identify opportunities to improve and enhance processes and procedures across housekeeping, maintenance, and front office.
- Responsible for the accurate completion of all people documentation including payroll, recruitment, disciplinary and grievance and appraisal documentation.
- To coach and develop the team, ensuring that they are well motivated and informed.
- To set stretching yet realistic objectives for the team, monitoring these and providing regular feedback.
- To be ultimately accountable for delivering projects that involve housekeeping, maintenance and front office teams.
- To pro-actively project manage any changes in policies and procedures for housekeeping, maintenance and front office.
- To achieve and maintain the highest possible levels of customer service to both external and internal customers, forging long-term relationships with suppliers and contractors.
- To ensure all health and safety procedures and policies are adhered to at all times.
- To be a member of the hotel crisis and fire teams and to be fully conversant in all related procedures.
Qualifications
What we’re looking for…
- Individuals. You’re looking for a place where you can be you; no clones in suits here.
- Passion for hospitality – whether that’s a drink, a meal, an event or a bed for the night.
- You’re all about having a positive impact on the people you interact with, leaving them with a memorable experience.
- You’re not precious. We leave our egos at the door and help get things done.
- You’re up for doing things differently and trying (almost) everything once.
- If we got stuck in a lift together, we’d have a good time and share a few laughs.
- You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other, and has fun along the way.
- You are an experienced, commercially savvy operator and have prior experience in a similar role.
- You are comfortable with the strategic as well as day to day detail.
- You have a high level of verbal and written communication skills, and computer skills.
- You have experience of Micros Fidelio Opera, and KnowCross.
- A natural at leading and managing others, you lead by example and create an environment where your team can be their best self.