Duty Manager - voco Dubai

InterContinental Hotels Group; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 134,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Room discounts

Career development

Great work culture

Job summary

voco Dubai, part of IHG, is seeking a Duty Manager to lead guest experiences and hotel operations. You will mentor the front desk team, ensure smooth daily performance, and drive memorable guest interactions while managing issues and emergencies with a courteous, proactive approach.

Ideal candidates have 2 years in front desk leadership, a Diploma or equivalent, and strong English communication skills. Evening and weekend availability is required.

Qualifications

• Diploma or equivalent required; some college preferred.
• 2 years’ front desk/guest service leader experience.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Other languages may be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead guest experiences, oversee team performance and hotel operations.
• Prioritise workload to deliver authentic, memorable experiences.
• Develop team skills to drive hotel performance.
• Engage with guests to resolve issues and concerns.
• Be first point of contact for critical emergencies.

Skills

Front desk leadership

English fluency

Mathematics

Willingness to work evenings/weekends

Customer service

Education

Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Opera

Job description

About us

At voco®, we’ve created a hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

At the heart of every great stay is a great host

We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need, and want. So, before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us, we give tempting recommendations of our favourite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guide book.

Your day to day

We like to lead from the front. So, we’re looking for a Duty Manager who sets their own high standards across everything from cleanliness to productivity. You’ll champion our ‘one team’ approach to make sure you and your team deal effectively and efficiently with all guest complaints, queries and suggestions

A little taste of your day-to-day

Every day is different at voco Dubai, but you’ll mostly be:

• Leading the way – managing guest experiences, team performance and hotel operations
• Prioritising workload and ensuring your team deliver authentic, memorable experiences
• Developing your team’s skills to drive results that positively impact on hotel performance
• Having authentic conversations with guests to resolve issues, queries or concerns
• Being first point of contact for any critical emergency situations

What we need from you

• Minimum Diploma or equivalent, some college preferred
• 2 years’ front desk/guest service leader experience
• Must be fluent in spoken and written English
• Other languages may be preferred
• Basic mathematics skills
• Excellent communication, problem solving, reasoning and motivational skills
• Long periods of standing in the front desk areas and occasional lifting of heavy items
• Working knowledge of hotel property management systems like Opera beneficial
• Willingness to work evenings and weekends

How do I deliver this?

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

• True Attitude:being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests
• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay
• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs
• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development,employee room discounts and great work culture.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve

Reliably Different - Welcome to voco® Hotels, IHG’s new upscale brand. We call our Hotels voco® – It means ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’ originating from Latin and representing our thoughtful, unstuffy and charming nature. Guests tell us that voco® is fun without being vanilla, trendy without being alienating and premium, without being stuffy. This unique and playful attitude, combined with a consistent level of quality, sits at the heart of our brand here at voco® Dubai Whatever we’re up to, at every instance, there are brand values and service behaviours that guide us... Brand values: Always dependable, Respect individuality & Be distinctive. Service values: Count on us to; Be natural & Make every stay special. Drawing on IHG’s years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco® Hotels gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels is connected by their individual characters, that make memorable travel dependable with unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience. The world's first voco® hotel opened in November 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia and the first voco® Hotel across IMEA is voco® Dubai. voco® Dubai is a location like no other with a premium ambience in the heart of Dubai and laid back yet attentive service from the friendly hosts. It’s location on the vibrant Shiekh Zayed Road is also connecting it to many day time and night delights of the city, moments from shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.