Director of Rooms

Job Description

• Participate in daily operations meetings to liaise and coordinate closely with support departments regarding general administration and operations issues
• Conduct daily briefings and ensure that all pertinent information is well received by team members
• Communicate all log entries by Duty Managers to ensure that all issues and concerns raised are closed with thorough follow up actions
• Ensure the efficient and effective operation and that departmental standards and procedures set out are strictly adhered to
• Liaise with Reservations Department in a high house situation and recommend actions to be taken. Check on closed-out dates to ensure efforts are made to achieve 100% occupancy with the highest yield possible
• Coordinate full house situations and makes all necessary arrangements to handle overbooking and pledge relocates
• Liaise with Finance Department to ensure that credit procedures are properly carried out
• Analyze market trend, review rooming list and motivate employees to up-sell rooms with the view of achieving higher yield and increasing revenue
• Coordinate and monitor major group movements for meetings and conferences, and ensure that action plans cover all areas of operations handling
• Makes courtesy calls to VIPS, long stay and corporate guest to obtain feedback and pro-act to handle any lapses in service standards
• Handle all guest correspondences and ensure prompt follow-ups
• Manage daily room inventory and coordinate with Housekeeping to ensure requested rooms are cleaned according to arrival times

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