Manager, Soft Services (Hotels)
Job Description
Job Description :
Company
Our client is founded by the Saudi government to bring all communities together and develop all sectors and fields with innovative solutions. The organization generates over $24 million in sales and has over 850 companies and 700 employees.
They are currently looking for a Soft Services Manager to be based in Sharma, Saudi Arabia.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop all in-house bespoke processes and standard operating procedures using hotel industry standards and best practices.
- Develop, implement, and update the hotel's operating manual.
- Work closely with senior management in the development of contractual scopes and KPIs for a tendering process.
- Mentor, manage and support the day-to-day contractual obligations of the service provider.
- Develop and implement improvement strategies to ensure continued progression in customer service across all areas.
- Show awareness of innovative ways to deliver expertise and technical services, systems, and outcomes in support of overall future company vision as a world leader in all fields.
- Lead and oversee all training aspects of each team member to ensure exceptional customer service.
- Manage all front of house and public space operations to ensure smooth check-in, check-out processes and resident engagement/management.
- Manage all back of house (BOH) operations to underpin all aspects of the hotel management and operation.
- Take responsibility and accountability in maintaining high-performance among all hotel staff members setting daily, weekly and monthly performance goals.
- Evaluate all KPIs and collate the necessary support and report documents pertaining to the outcomes of these key areas.
- Conduct periodic appraisal and evaluations against the performance of each hotel service.
- Manage the development and issuance of daily, weekly and monthly occupancy reports, stock control reports, maintenance reports, housekeeping and laundry reports, F&B Reports and income/expenditure reports.
- Develop in-house bespoke processes and standard operating procedures using hotel and soft service (housekeeping) industry standards and best practices.
- Proofread and redline all SOPs, manuals and job scopes to ensure all aspects of the services are aligned with best practices. Review all annually.
- Implement all best practices, standards and periodically perform gap analysis on all services.
- Continuously log and monitor all observations of non-conformance in each work scope and service.
- Introduce control measures to ensure all service divisions are monitored, managed and maintained by the service provider. These should be in the form of low-level checklist and reports and high-level systematic controls or system-based solutions.
Qualification & Requirements:
- Degree in Hospitality Management, Hotel Management or similar.
- Higher level management and leaderships qualifications.
- Relevant certificates in safety, hotel management, operations, and project management.
- 10 years minimum in same or similar role as Hotel Manager, General Manager, Duty Manager or Director of rooms.
- 4 or 5 star hotel, resort or cruise experience in large scale establishments.
- Experience working with multicultural and diverse multi language workforce.
- Experience in operating multi-projects in separate locations.
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience in Microsoft Office Suite.
- High level reporting and use if system, based technology such as SAP, Oracle and similar.
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
Recruitment / Staffing / RPO
Function:
IT
Roles:
Contracting