Front Desk Supervisor

Horseshoe Bay Resort • Phoenix, AZ

8h • Onsite

About The Position

The Front Desk Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the Front Desk staff to maximize revenues and profits while ensuring optimal guest satisfaction. This role involves interviewing, hiring, training, and evaluating staff, as well as resolving problems and providing communication. The supervisor will respond to guest requests, needs, problems, and concerns, and accommodate groups to ensure high levels of guest satisfaction and repeat business. Key duties include implementing company programs, supervising daily operations to comply with SOPS and LSOPs, and motivating associates to provide quality service and hospitality. The supervisor must remain calm and alert, especially during emergencies, serving as a role model, and resolving customer complications through thorough research and effective solutions, including authorizing revenue allowances when appropriate. The position requires adherence to attendance rules and regular availability.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Always maintain a professional appearance and manner.
• Ability to communicate well with guests.
• Willingness to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
• Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy to defuse anger and collect accurate information and resolve conflicts.
• Basic mathematical skills and considerable skills in the use of a calculator to prepare moderately complex mathematical calculations without error.
• Ability to access and accurately input information using a moderately complex computer system.
• Ability to stand, walk and continuously perform behind the front desk.
• Ability to observe and detect signs of emergency situations.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing and prepare complex reports of room availability and revenues generated.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, customers and patrons.

Responsibilities

• Interview, hire, train, recommend performance evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or termination when appropriate.
• Respond to guest’s special requests, needs, problems, issues and concerns and accommodate groups to ensure optimal levels of guest satisfaction and repeat business.
• Implement company programs and supervise the daily operations of the Front Desk to comply with SOPS and LSOPs, maximize revenues, and motivate associates to ensure an optimal level of quality service and hospitality are provided to the hotel customers.
• Supervise the Guest Service Agents.
• Remain calm and alert, especially during emergency situations and/or heavy hotel activity, serving as a role model for clerks and other employees. Resolve customer complications and complaints by conducting thorough research of the situation and determining the most effective solutions. Make decisions and take action based on previous experience and good judgment, sometimes revising approach to accommodate unusual situations. Authorize revenue allowances to remedy problems only after other alternative solutions have been offered.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform any other job-related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees