Duty Manager - Holiday Inn Cairo Citystars

Are you ready to take your hospitality career to the next level? At Holiday Inn Cairo Citystars, a proud GPTW Certified hotel, we believe in creating unforgettable experiences for our guests and a vibrant workplace for our team.

If you’re passionate about exceptional service and thrive in a dynamic environment, we want you to be our next Duty Manager!

Your Day-to-Day


* Manage the day-to-day activities of the front office department consisting of reception, bellmen, doormen, valet, phone operators, guest relations and concierge, plan, schedule, and organize work to ensure proper coverage.

 Communicate and enforce policies and procedures.

 


* Communicates performance expectations to employees in accordance with job descriptions for each position.


* Monitoring and supporting progress toward IHG Rewards Club & Ambassador enrolments, IHG Guest Heartbeat, Colleague Heartbeat, Social Media reviews against departmental goals.


* Recommend and/or initiate salary, disciplinary, or other staffing/human resources-related actions in accordance with company rules and policies.

 Alert management of potentially serious issues.

 


* Ensure all staff is properly trained and has the tools and equipment needed to effectively carry out their respective job duties.


* Utilize True Hospitality skills to drive guest & colleague engagement.

 


* Monitor, coordinate and execute the special needs and requests of IHG Rewards club guests, Ambassador guests, VIP, repeat guests and members of frequency program(s).

 


* Participates in an ongoing employee recognition program. 


* Trains staff on adherence to all credit policies and procedures to reduce bad debts and rebates.


* Supervises same day selling procedures to maximize room revenue and property occupancy.


* Monitors advance deposit procedure


* Co-ordinates billing with the Finance Department


* Ensures Front desk handles billing and cash in accordance with Hotel’s standards


* Co-ordinates group arrivals and departures


* Responds to positive and negative comments expressed in Guest Comment Cards and develops strategies to improve comment card results


* Implementing the customer recognition/service program, communicating and ensuring the process.


* Assists in the review of comment cards and guest satisfaction results with employees. 


* Ensures employees have the proper supplies and uniforms.


* Assists in the use of a guest information tracking system to ensure that a successful repeat guest recognition program is in use to recognize guest preferences and aid in problem resolution.


* Maintains statistics on rooms and reservations, customer arrivals and departures, average occupancy rates and related information.


* Revises daily forecast whenever status changes and informs Department Heads as necessary


* Checks daily for out-of-order rooms, VIP rooms and special accommodation requests


* Seeks opportuni...