Guest Service Agent

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Dubai is seeking a Guest Services Associate to deliver personalized arrival and departure experiences and uphold brand standards. You will recognize Marriott Bonvoy members and ensure a seamless, on-brand guest journey throughout the stay.

Your role includes accurate ledger handling, effective communication with FO, HK, club and room service teams, and contributing to guest satisfaction with prompt, attentive service and professional grooming.

Qualifications

• Fluent English with excellent communication skills.
• Additional language is highly preferred.
• Guest service experience in hospitality preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-brand personalized arrival and departure experiences.
• Acknowledge Marriott Bonvoy members and deliver welcome amenities.
• Ensure guest ledgers are well controlled.
• Support FO, HK, club and room service teams with accurate information.
• Maintain brand standards and professional grooming.

Skills

Excellent command of English

Additional language

Guest service experience

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Professional grooming

Tools

Opera knowledge

Job description

• To provide our guests with an on brand personalized arrival and departure experience.
• To ensure guest ledgers are well controlled.
• To effectively contribute in a high Guest Voice loyalty composite through recognition, friendliness, helpfulness and efficiency.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Ensure that services provided are in harmony with our Sheraton core values.
• Ensure that our guests receive an on brand personalized experience upon arrival, departure and throughout their stay.
• Acknowledge and recognize Marriott Bonvoy members and deliver the related welcome amenities upon arrival.
• Ensure implementation of the WELCOME upon Check in and FAREWELL upon check out.
• Ensure strict compliance with Sheraton Brand Standards in all related tasks and duties achieving 90% or above in the BSA inspection
• Live the Sheraton Brand Differentiators (Sheraton Sleep Experience and Sheraton Club).
• 100% daily usage of the Guest planning Screen to deliver preferences successfully to our guests.
• Achieve the daily set goals for the following:
• Up selling revenue.
• COFC (Check Out For Children) daily capture ratio of 25% of check outs.
• YC (Your Choice) daily take rate of 15% of occupied rooms.
• Ensure smooth and clear communication with all other FO, HK, club and Room service associates.
• Control high balance report on a daily basis.
• Ensure compliance with PCI policies.
• Ensure rooms allocated for VIPs are not changed unless amenities are shifted.
• Acquire the proper product and service knowledge needed to perform your job properly.
• Ensure that guests’ requests are fulfilled and closed in GXP within 15 minutes as average response time.
• Ensure guests’ defects are closed in GXP within 15 minutes from the time the complaint was received while ensuring that guests are appropriately compensated and guests are satisfied.
• Use GXP to update guests profiles with requests, defects, preferences and any other comments/information acquired during stay
• Be aware of the hotel Fire and Emergency procedures.
• Perform daily buckets check against departure and clear the pending registration cards.
• Ensure desk is at all times equipped with functional equipment and stocked with enough stationary and collateral, forms and order them in a timely manner.
• Trouble Shoot and/or assist guests with internet issues.
• Assist the hotel revenue by:
• Rooms/Suites Upselling.
• Suggestive selling of the hotel restaurants.
• Have sufficient information about local surrounding areas to able to provide guests with choices and/or alternatives when requesting for assistance.
• Build positive, effective and on brand relationships with internal and external customers including VIPs and Marriott Bonvoy elite members.
• Enforce free marketing activities to promote the hotel services through our guests by encouraging them to post reviews and tweets in the various social media.
• Actively participate in the hotel sustainability, community and OI (Operational Innovation) activities.
• Ensure proper grooming and personal hygiene at all times as per hotel guidelines.
• Be knowledgeable about the hotel Guest Voice scores and current improvement plans set for the department.

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Computer Skills
• Opera knowledge
• Excellent command of English
• Additional language is highly required
• Excellent communication and follow up skills
• Prompt and caring with guest services experience
• Honesty, integrity and ownership skills

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

We do expect that you do have the experiences/ behaviors below. You:

• Totally embrace the philosophy of guest and customer service and owns the guests;
• Identify yourself with the hotel’s brand and operating philosophy;
• Possess a warm and friendly demeanor;
• Strive to achieve satisfaction and delight of our customers;
• Thrive on pride of work and its product;
• Play as a team to achieve common goals;
• Have immaculate personal presentation e.g. grooming and conversational ability;
• Demonstrate self-confidence, energy and enthusiasm;
• Have a strong ability to learn skills, retain and demonstrate learning;
• Uphold ethical business practices.

EDUCATION

PSYCHICAL CONDITION REQUIRED FOR YOUR ROLE