Supervisor - Guest Relations - Santa Barbara, United States - Hotel Californian

Hotel Californian

Verified Company

Santa Barbara, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Hotel Californian fosters a creative, entrepreneurial, and energetic work environment.

We value passionate people who love to be challenged and desire the freedom to contribute to the overall success of the hotel.

We strive to create a workplace culture that values family, work-life balance, and community. We help develop our teams and provide support for them to grow their careers with our organization. Our Talent is proud to work here.

GUEST SERVICE SUPERVISOR ROLE
This position would support property, department management and staff ensuring the delivery of an exceptional guest experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decisionmaking; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
Supervises and manages employees. Understanding employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.
Maintaining Guest Services and Front Desk Goals
Manages daytoday 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.
Supports handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Supports regular inspection tours of the entire facility for appearance, safety, staffing, security, and maintenance.
Responsible for creating a consistent arrival experience and comfortable stay for VIP guests/owners.
Sends copy of Manager on Duty report to all departments on a daily basis.
Ensures compliance with all policies, standards and procedures.
Understands and can implement all emergency plans including accident, death, elevator, thefts, vicious crimes, bombs, fire, etc.
Ensuring and Providing 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.
Intervenes in any guest/employee situation as needed to ensure the integrity of the property is maintained, guest satisfaction is achieved, and employee wellbeing is preserved.
Serves as a leader in displaying outstanding hospitality skills.
Sets a positive example for guest relations.
Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
Observes service behaviors of employees and provides feedback to individuals.
Maintains high visibility in public areas during peak times.
Provides immediate assistance to guests as requested.
Interacts with customers on a regular basis throughout the property to obtain feedback on quality of product, service levels and overall satisfaction.
Records guest issues in the guest response tracking system.
Reviews comment cards and guest satisfaction results with employees.
Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.
Managing and Conducting Human Resource Activities
Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Provides guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with the appropriate skills.

ADDITIONAL
RESPONSIBILITIES

Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Informs and/or updating the executives, the peers and the subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner.
Maintains a bold working relationship with all departments to support property operations and goals and to expedite the resolution of any problems that may arise through the general operation of the property.
Communicates any variations to the established norms to the appropriate department in a timely manner.
Participates as needed in the investigation of employee and guest accidents.
Performs Front Desk duties in highdemand times.

BUDGETARY/STAFF RESPONSIBILITY