Guest Services Manager

Away Resorts; West Town; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on holidays

Life Insurance

Enhanced parental pay

Holiday buy scheme

Wellbeing support

Career development

Job summary

Away Resorts is seeking a Guest Services Manager for Mill Rythe Coastal Retreat on Hayling Island. The role runs a 40-hour week on a permanent contract, with a salary of £28,683 per year.

You will lead the Guest Services team, ensure smooth operations from check-in to check-out, and strive to make every guest feel welcomed and inspired to have their best holiday ever.

Qualifications

• Outstanding people skills, friendly and patient
• Previous management or supervisory experience
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to juggle priorities
• Budgeting and finance understanding
• Customer-facing or sales experience may help

Responsibilities

• Greet and check guests into accommodation
• Manage holiday bookings and guest flow
• Resolve customer complaints promptly and professionally
• Coordinate with on-site teams to ensure guest satisfaction
• Be the first point of contact for holiday home owners

Job description

Guest Services Manager

Location: Mill Rythe Coastal Retreat, Hayling Island PO11 0PB

Hours of work: 40 Hours per week, Permanent contract

Salary: £28,683 per annum

What we need in a nutshell

We want you to make our guests feel personally welcomed, cared for, and inspired to have their best holiday ever, from the moment they check in to the moment they leave, you will be responsible for the smooth running of the Guest Services department.

Who are we?

At Away Resorts we're a growing company, shaking up the Great British holiday. Our Mill Rythe resort, set on a peaceful estuary, has undergone a stunning £10m refurbishment with our stunning cocktail bar, The Missing Squirrel! As well as our incredible restaurant The Green Room.

What you'll be doing

Working as part of our team of holiday heroes, reporting to the Guest Experience Manager, you will be running the Guest Services team.

• Spending lots of your time with guests, meeting and greeting to check them into their accommodation
• You will be responsible for managing holiday bookings.
• Resolving customer complaints
• Liaising with and helping out colleagues onsite to ensure that our guests experience is always excellent
• You will be the first point of contact for all our Holiday Home Owners

One more thing...holidays happen at holiday times, so you may need to work your magic on bank holidays and weekends too.

Skills, experience and qualities you'll need

If you can demonstrate the following, we'd love to hear from you:

• Outstanding people skills - friendly, patient and always ready to help
• Previous Management or Supervisors experience
• Exceptional organisation skills and able to keep a good few plates spinning
• A solid understanding of budgeting and finance
• Experience in a customer-facing or sales role

It's the icing on the cake if you have experience in the holiday sector specifically, but don't worry if you haven't, we provide plenty of training.

It's about your values too. We have a can-do, fun-loving, people-centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes' mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers - have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.

What we can offer you

Enjoy some great benefits, including:

• Up to 50% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays - because you deserve amazing getaways too.
• Up to 20% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays for friends and families- because we want to extend our fabulous getaways to them too.
• 20% On-park discounts - Enjoy the best of what we offer.
• Team Incentives - Your hard work won't go unnoticed.
• Holiday Hero Menu - Enjoy delicious meals with discounted food options on-park.
• Life Insurance - For peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay - After two years with us, we've got you covered.
• Holiday Buy Scheme - Flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
• Help @ Hand Scheme - Wellbeing support when you need it.
• Career Development - We believe in nurturing talent and promoting from within

Our Promise to You

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all!

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors to our teams, we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We'll never accept any form of discrimination, and we'll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. Afterall, wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!

Good Luck!

#INDHP