Front Desk Manager

Job Description Job Description CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience • High school diploma or GED; 2 years' experience in the guest services, front desk, or related professional area. CORE WORK ACTIVITIES Maintaining Guest Services and Front Desk Goals • Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis. • Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. • Handles complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. • Supervises staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met. • Ensures that regular on-going communication is happening with employees to create awareness of business objectives and communicate expectations, recognizes performance, and produces desired results. • Understands the impact of department’s operations on the overall property financial goals and objectives and manages to achieve or exceed goals. Supporting Senior Management. • Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example. • Encourages and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. • Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors. • Supervises and manages employees. Manages all day-to-day operations. Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence. • Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team. • Supervises all areas of the Front Office in the absence of the General Manager. Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service • Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention. • Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed. • Responds to and handles guest problems and complaints. • Sets a positive example for guest relations. • Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service. • Observes service behaviors of employees and provides feedback to individuals. • Interacts with customers to obtain feedback on quality of product, service levels and overall satisfaction. • Ensures employees understand customer service expectations and parameters. • Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels. • Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement. Managing Projects and Policies • Implements the customer recognition/service program, communicating and ensuring the process. • Trains staff and monitors adherence to all credit policies and procedures to reduce bad debts and rebates. • Supervises same day selling procedures to maximize room revenue and control property occupancy. • Supervises daily Front Desk shift operations and ensures compliance with all policies, standards and procedures. • Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently; disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures (SOPs and LSOPs) and support the Peer Review Process. Supporting Human Resource Activities • Supports the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. • Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an “open door” policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns. • Brings issues concerning employee satisfaction to the attention of the department manager and Human Resources. • Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with the appropriate skills. • Supports a departmental orientation program for employees to receive the appropriate new hire training to successfully perform their job. • Participates in employee progressive discipline procedures. Additional Responsibilities • Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. • Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. • Informs and/or updates the executives, the peers and the subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner. • Performs all duties at the Front Desk as necessary. • Runs Front Desk shifts whenever necessary. • Participates in departmental meetings and continually communicates a clear and consistent message regarding the Front Desk goals to produce desired results.

Location: Dover, NJ, US

Posted Date: 4/30/2025