Front Office Supervisor (flexible)

Crescent Hotels & Resorts; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Crescent Hotels & Resorts in Chicago is seeking a Front Desk Supervisor to oversee daily operations and ensure guest satisfaction. You will interview, train, and manage Front Desk staff while addressing guests' needs effectively.

The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills, a professional demeanor, and the ability to handle conflicts with patience and tact. Join Crescent to create exceptional experiences for our guests while maximizing hotel revenues.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with an even disposition.
• Ability to deal effectively with customers and conflicts.
• Ability to stand and walk continuously at the front desk.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily operations of the Front Desk staff.
• Respond to guests’ special requests and concerns.
• Implement company programs and ensure compliance with standards.
• Resolve customer complications and make effective decisions.

Skills

Communication in English

Ability to maintain professionalism

Team player

Mathematical skills

Ability to handle customer conflicts

Job description

Job Overview

Supervise the daily operations of the Front Desk staff to maximize revenues and profits while attaining optimal guest satisfaction. To include covering front desk and night audit shifts.

Essential Job Functions

1. Interview, hire, train, recommend performance evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or termination when appropriate.
2. Respond to guests’ special requests, needs, problems, issues and concerns and accommodate groups to ensure optimal levels of guest satisfaction and repeat business.
3. Implement company programs and supervise the daily operations of the Front Desk to comply with SOPS and LSOPs, maximize revenues, and motivate associates to ensure an optimal level of quality service and hospitality are provided to the hotel customers.
4. Supervise the Guest Service Agents.
5. Remain calm and alert, especially during emergency situations and/or heavy hotel activity, serving as a role model for clerks and other employees. Resolve customer complications and complaints by conducting thorough research of the situation and determining the most effective solutions. Make decisions and take action based on previous experience and good judgment, sometimes revising approach to accommodate unusual situations. Authorize revenue allowances to remedy problems only after other alternative solutions have been offered.
6. Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
7. Perform any other job related duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate in English.
• Self‑starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Can communicate well with guests.
• Willing to “pitch‑in” and help co‑workers with their job duties and be a team player.
• Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy to defuse anger and collect accurate information and resolve conflicts.
• Basic mathematical skills and considerable skill in the use of a calculator to prepare moderately complex mathematical calculations without error.
• Ability to access and accurately input information using a moderately complex computer system.
• Ability to stand, walk and continuously perform behind the front desk.
• Ability to observe and detect signs of emergency situations.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing and prepare complex reports of room availability and revenues generated.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, customers and patrons.

Performance Standards

Customer Satisfaction

Our customers are what we are about. One of the keys to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with Crescent staff. It is essential that you remain professional at all times, and that you treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances. Every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits

In order to maintain a positive guest and associate experience, your work habits should always meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance. You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job and ask for help whenever you are not sure how to do something.

Safety & Security

The safety and security of our guests and associates is of utmost importance to Crescent. Every Crescent associate should adhere to the hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.

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