YWG|130| | Front Office Manager

Description With thousands of hotels in over 100 countries and territories, Hilton offers countless opportunities to delight. From an open door to a welcoming smile and an exceptional experience, we offer the millions of travellers who stay with us every year a welcome they will never forget. In addition to our flagship brand, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, the family of brands includes Waldorf Astoria, LXR, Conrad, Canopy, Curio Collection, DoubleTree, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton and many others. If you appreciate the impact global travel can have on the world, you may be just the person we are looking for to work as a Hilton Team Member. Because it’s with Hilton where we never forget the reason we're here: to delight our guests, Team Members, and owners alike. The Front Office Manager is concerned with the strategic management of the Front Office department following Hilton brand standards, policies and procedures. This role is responsible for the operation of all Front Desk operations, the Transportation team, Concierge, and telephone service centre. What will I be doing? As the Front Office Manager, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards: • Maintain high customer service focus by approaching your job with the customers always in mind. • Have a positive impact, taking personal responsibility and initiative to resolve issues, always clearly communicating with both customers and colleagues. • Motivated and committed, approaching all tasks with enthusiasm and seizing opportunities to learn new skills or knowledge in order to improve your personal performance. • Be flexible, responding quickly and positively to changing requirements including the performance of any tasks requested of you. • Maintain high team focus by showing cooperation and support to colleagues in the pursuit of team goals. • Contribute ideas and suggestions to enhance operational / environmental procedures in the hotel. • Actively promote the services and facilities of Hilton hotels to guests and suppliers of the hotel. • Actively seek verbal feedback from customers and team members at every opportunity. • Agree and implement actions to make improvements to customer service. • Positively dealing with and learn from customer complaints and comments with follow-up and feedback to the Director of Operations. • Make sure all customer requests and queries are responded to promptly and effectively while assisting on the floor during peak periods each day. • Be available to assist on duty in the hotels during any busy days or special events. • Maintain a presence in the lobby setting the example for team members for guest service. • Be proactive towards guests, assisting them with any reasonable requests, and training all team members to see these things before the guests ask. • Have detailed knowledge of Hilton departmental standards, explaining the standards to the team and training each team member individually with specific job skills checklists that relate to their responsibilities. • Assess team members’ performance against standards.