Guest Services Assistant (Nights) Leeds, England
Job description
This role? It’s ALL about the guest and delivering an outstanding service for them during the night.
Outstanding being safe, hospitable and positively memorable experience. You’ll be playing a key role in supporting your hotel achieving its performance metrics and objectives – and you’ll care about doing so, along with an incredible team in Guest Services.
What you’ll be doing as a Guest Service Assistant
- Ensuring that all guests experience an outstanding level of service during out-of-hours
- Ensuring that every guest experiences a safe visit, exceeding all expectations surrounding cleanliness
- Engage, build and develop relationships with late check-in guests, assessing their needs and flexing style and approach appropriately
- Being attentive to all guests and looking for opportunities to up-sell and make recommendations to enhance their experience
- Demonstrating a sales mentality to selling bedroom, ME and FB including making recommendations for guests to upgrade, dine in the restaurant and upgrade to breakfast
- Responding to any guest complaints (hopefully these will be far and few between because of how incredible the service is you are delivering!) and finding ways to turnaround any negative feedback
- Processing telephone or walk-in reservations accurately
What’ll make you a great fit
- You’ll need to be a night owl given the hours you’ll be working
- It doesn’t matter where you’ve gained your experience, as long as you are driven and have incredible customer service abilities and confidence to anticipate and deliver on guests needs
- You’ll enjoy using tech – we have lots of it to make your life easier and our guests experience more seamless
- You’ll love people – and as a result, have great interpersonal and communication skills
- Details? You love them! You’ll be incredibly attentive with guests as a result
- Flexible and able to remain focused on results under pressure and to challenging deadlines
- Self-motivated and confident
- Hard-working but FUN!
Our amazing benefits
- Do you enjoy travelling? A fun weekend away? We've got you covered with preferential rates
- Alternatively, if we do not have a hotel in that location, why not take advantage of our International IHG discounts?
- We also have shopping and discount opportunities in retail, restaurants, and events (because we know life isn't all about work).
- Are your family and friends envious of your deals? Why not give them a discount code for hotels throughout the Kew Green Hotels estate
- FREE membership to the Leisure Club
- Progression and room for growth, with opportunities in the UK and abroad - we have training, courses, and updates at your fingertips!
- KewFest, Employee Appreciation Week, and Awards evening are all annual events.
- Progression and room to grow, with opportunities across the UK and internationally
- Flexible attitude and working hours.
- Mental Health Support with our 24/7, 365 Employee Assistance Line
Who are Kew Green Hotels?
Whether we are passing on a sales lead, creating an on-trend specials dish or simply looking after guests and employees, here at Kew Green we focus on the details. We know that each and every member of our team love to pursue outstanding – and we respect our people and the incredible work they do to look after our guests. And in return? Not only do we offer a highly competitive benefits package, but through our internal career development opportunities and external apprenticeship provider, we also support you wholeheartedly in your own personal pursuit of outstanding.
With an ever-growing portfolio and a number of brands across leading hotel chains including IHG Hotels Resorts, Marriott International, Wyndham Hotels Resorts and Hilton, what unites us all is our values.
Irrespective of whether we are finding new ways to take care of our guests or supporting departments we’ve never worked in before – here at Kew Green Hotels, our obsession over the little details is who we are.
When you join the Kew Green family, you'll be part of a fast-growing company that is going global. If you've got ambition, we can match it with endless opportunities - both in the UK and much further afield.
The Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth hotel is ocated on the outskirts of the city, the hotel is in an excellent position from which to explore the many attractions Leeds and Yorkshire have to offer such as, Harewood House, Lotherton Hall and Bird Garden, Royal Armouries, Temple Newsam, Yorkshire Dales and the City of York, making it the perfect family destination. Within easy reach of the M1 and M62 motorways as well as Leeds Bradford International and Manchester International Airports only an hour from the hotel, Holiday Inn Leeds Garforth is a highly accessible venue to hold important business meetings and events. What's more, with our in-house fitness suite including swimming pool, a fully equipped gym.
