Head of Accommodation & Guest Services

Butlin's; Bognor Regis; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK resort is seeking a Head of Accommodation & Guest Services to ensure operational excellence and guest satisfaction. This role involves oversight of cleaning standards, guest service management, and leading a team to enhance the guest experience. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in operational management and team leadership, adeptly handling multiple priorities. This is a permanent full-time position located in Bognor Regis.

Qualifications

• Excellent level of operational knowledge in cleaning or soft services.
• Experience as a customer service leader.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the smooth planning and delivery of department operations.
• Drive problem resolution through guest services.
• Maintain cleanliness and oversee public area management.

Skills

Operational knowledge in cleaning

Guest relations experience

Leading large teams

Financial knowledge

Ability to communicate well

Job description

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Head of Accommodation & Guest Services

Department: Accommodation & Guest Services

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Bognor Regis

Description

About the Role

Head of Accommodation & Guest Services will ensure the smooth planning and delivery of a department that promotes the highest operational standards within Resort cleanliness and accommodation cleanliness, whilst driving problem resolution through our Guest Services department.

Ownership of the business strategy, ensuring you are reviewing and taking actions around improving the guest experience will be an essential part of the role.

This role will ensure it is driving our Clean and Fault Free (CAFF) approach to our accommodation and identifying opportunities for improving our focus on guest feedback and NPS growth. Accountability will also sit with the role for problem resolution through the Guest Services team which is driven predominantly through accommodation complaints and queries. This role will also cover all public venues and areas from a cleaning perspective.

The role will drive business strategy by setting clear goals and expectations whilst nurturing an environment that the team can perform at their best.

You will hold accountability for all guest accommodation cleaning and all public area cleaning across the resort, along with leadership of our guest services team dealing with all guest services queries that are raised to the resort - most of which will be focused on accommodation. This role will ensure a smooth arrival process by break type, working with proposition and pre-arrival marketing teams to plan and review guests needs. Managing proactive query and complaint resolution where possible and escalation of more complex guest queries.

You will be accountable for dealing with complaints and ensuring that our 'solve on site' policy is in place working closely with the Resort Director & peers, managing the complaint resolution budgets within their P&L.

You will be working closely with the Senior Manager Facilities to log any maintenance and room issues and plan how to resolve any issues by planning and forecasting of units to ensure correct support / requirements of team are met.

Time will be spent working closely with allocations and yield team to ensure awareness of arrival numbers and any specific requirements. This will drive a problem-solving attitude to deal with Team and guest comments in a positive manner and take appropriate action.

This role covers management of the operational refurbishment processes, working alongside the central support teams and understanding Capex Plans, H&S Compliance for the departments.

You will set clear goals and PDPs for direct leaders, providing feedback and clear succession plans, ensuring leaders fulfil the 90 day process for all new team, and they're all allocated a buddy. Monitor engagement levels and work with the people team to identify opportunities to drive engagement and retention. Accountable for people management of the department, including all people tasks from onboarding through the employee life cycle. Employee life cycle refers to PDP's, performance management, required training, and any formal HR process.

General Duties & Key Accountabilities

You will hold accountability for all guest accommodation cleaning and all public area cleaning across the resort, along with leadership of our guest services team dealing with all guest services queries that are raised to the resort - most of which will be focused on accommodation. This role will ensure a smooth arrival process by break type, working with proposition and pre-arrival marketing teams to plan and review guests needs. Managing proactive query and complaint resolution where possible and escalation of more complex guest queries.

You will be accountable for dealing with complaints and ensuring that our 'solve on site' policy is in place working closely with the Resort Director & peers, managing the complaint resolution budgets within their P&L.

You will be working closely with the Senior Manager Facilities to log any maintenance and room issues and plan how to resolve any issues by planning and forecasting of units to ensure correct support / requirements of team are met.

Time will be spent working closely with allocations and yield team to ensure awareness of arrival numbers and any specific requirements. This will drive a problem-solving attitude to deal with Team and guest comments in a positive manner and take appropriate action.

This role covers management of the operational refurbishment processes, working alongside the central support teams and understanding Capex Plans, H&S Compliance for the departments.

You will set clear goals and PDPs for direct leaders, providing feedback and clear succession plans, ensuring leaders fulfil the 90 day process for all new team, and they're all allocated a buddy. Monitor engagement levels and work with the people team to identify opportunities to drive engagement and retention. Accountable for people management of the department, including all people tasks from onboarding through the employee life cycle. Employee life cycle refers to PDP's, performance management, required training, and any formal HR process.

About You

You should hold an excellent level of operational knowledge in cleaning or soft services, have an excellent level of hands‑on experience in a guest relations or customer service leader role. You should have experience in leading large teams in fast paced environments with good financial knowledge with the ability to forecast and manage costs in line with budgets.

Be able to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly to changing requirements, have experience in leading a mixture of permanent and temporary teams to deliver excellent standards and hold the ability to effectively lead, coach and motivate team, even in times of high demand. Understanding different communication styles and have the ability to communicate well at all levels should be an asset of yours.