Hotel Manager

Atlas Hotels; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Folkestone is seeking an experienced Hotel Manager to lead their team at the Holiday Inn Express. The role involves ensuring excellent guest experiences, managing hotel operations, and developing talent within the team. The ideal candidate has substantial hotel management experience and strong leadership skills. Join us to drive success and create a rewarding work environment.

Benefits

Discounted hotel stays

Employee discount on food and drinks

Annual bonus for tenure

Employee of the Quarter program

Health plan benefits

Access to discount platform

Free counselling and wellness support

Auto-enrolment pension scheme

Referral bonus

Performance-related bonus

Free meals when on shift

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced customer-facing service environment.
• Ability to manage costs and achieve personal objectives.
• Experience with standard operating procedures.
• Leading operational teams with various skills.
• Coaching Team Members effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive team performance and retention.
• Communicate hotel targets and values.
• Nurture a learning culture within the hotel.
• Recruit and onboard new Team Members.
• Manage performance and recognize achievements.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures.
• Create excellent guest experiences.

Skills

Leadership skills

Engaging style

Employee engagement skills

Emotional intelligence

Effective communication

Organisational skills

Customer service skills

Continuous improvement

Job description

Job Details

Hours: 40 hours across 5 days per week

Salary: up to 48050 per annum

Atlas Hotels is hiring a Hotel Manager right now at the Holiday Inn Express Folkestone

Have you got previous experience of leading a team in a Hotel Operations environment Great! - Our Hotel Managers are the driving force behind the success of our hotels; responsible for creating a rewarding place to work for our people and ensuring our guests have a great experience. Great Hotel Managers focus on employee engagement and delighting guests all whilst being accountable for running a profitable safe and well-maintained hotel.

Benefits

• Hotel rooms across our 59 hotels (Holiday Inn Express Hampton by Hilton and Holiday Inn) at only 25 per night with 50% off food and drink
• Worldwide substantial employee discount at 6600 IHG Hotels across the globe
• A bonus cash payment every year from 2 years of service as a thank you for staying with Atlas Hotels
• Atlas Friends & Family Discount offering up to a 45% discount for Friends & Family of Atlas employees
• Monthly cash rewards through our reward and recognition platform
• HSF Health Plan free for every employee giving you money off dental / optical appointments and other health costs for you and your family
• Access to HSF Perkbox which provides deals and discounts from the biggest brands
• Online GP service access to free counselling and wellness support with a 24 hour helpline
• Auto-enrolment pension scheme through The Peoples Pension
• Employee referral programme paying out 250 for every great person you refer to us that passes their probation
• Employee of the Quarter programmes in every site and a prestigious annual awards ceremony
• A rota for the next 4 weeks meaning you can work in hospitality but still have a life outside of work
• Free / discounted food when on shift
• Performance-related bonus of up to 20%

Responsibilities

Your Team

• Responsible for performance development and retention of the hotel team an understanding of what makes your team tick and how to best lead engage with motivate and recognise them
• Understand and role model the Atlas values regularly spending time with the team to communicate the purpose strategic priorities and hotel targets
• Nurture a learning culture within your hotel prioritising learning feedback growth and skill development of your team to retain talent and create future leaders
• Responsible for the recruitment and onboarding of new Team Members ensuring they receive a thorough Atlas Hero Induction and positive probationary experience
• Responsible for rewarding great performance consistently fairly and regularly to create and maintain a culture of recognition where employees feel appreciated
• Ability to manage people and take on tough conversations where necessary to manage performance or behaviours that fall behind the Atlas standards
• Respect employees home lives and cultivate a work life balance providing 4 weeks worth of rotas taking a fair approach to rostering
• Ensuring Team Members understand and follow Atlas Standing Operating Procedures at all times

Your Guests and Your Hotel

• Responsible for ensuring every guest has a great experience would stay again and would recommend the hotel to others
• Role model excellent guest interactions on a daily basis supporting with service recovery ensuring every guest leaves happy
• An understanding of guest feedback interpreting trends and creating action plans to increase areas of dissatisfaction / low score drivers and engaging with stakeholders outside of your hotel (Divisional Manager and Central Support)
• Responsible for ensuring the hotel passes all evaluations an audits with flying colours

What Experience do I need

• Experience leading a team to success in a fast paced customer facing service environment
• Experience managing costs within your control for your property in line with personal objectives and KPIs
• Experience of working in an environment with clear frameworks and standard operating procedures
• Leading an operational team with various skills and specialisms
• Experience coaching Team Members to reach their full potential as well as taking on the tough conversations when required

What Skills do I need

• Leadership skills
• Engaging style able to motivate others towards a shared goal
• Employee engagement skills; understanding of motivational and engagement practises
• Good level of emotional intelligence; understands own and others emotions ability to unite teams behind a goal and inspire action
• Communicative able to communicate effectively at all levels
• Organised and systematic
• Excellent customer service skills
• Drive Continuous Improvement in self and others

Applicants will be invited to take a psychometric test online as part of our hiring process. This is an opportunity to showcase your skills and abilities in a fair way. After you complete the assessments you will receive a copy of your Workplace Insights in your email. Your unique profile identifies your strengths and potential challenges heightening your self-awareness and helping you understand how to relate better to others in the workplace.

So why not Click now to become our Hotel Manager and enter into a World of Opportunity!

Required Experience

• Manager

Key Skills

• Food Handling
• Hospitality Management
• Hotel Experience
• Hospitality Experience
• GM Vehicles
• Management Experience
• Profit & Loss
• Revenue Management
• Hotel Management
• Operations Management
• Budgeting
• Leadership Experience

Employment Type

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience

Experience: years

Vacancy

Vacancy: 1