Exciting opportunity to join the Hilton Charlotte University Place as a Guest Services Manager. Our ideal candidate can deal efficiently with guest requests and has a solid customer service approach. Ultimately, you should be able to ensure our front desk provides professional and friendly service to our customers. You will strive to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction and maximize the financial performance of the department. Responsibilities: This is a supervisory role with direct reports including Front Desk Agents, and Night Audit. • 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 builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. • Serves 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. • Ensures recognition of employees is taking place across areas of responsibility. • Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, and standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis. • Conducts department meetings and continually communicates a clear and consistent message regarding department goals to produce desired results. • Review staff levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs, and financial objectives are met. • Manages department controllable expenses to achieve or exceed budgeted goals. • Handle guest complaints and verify that all guest issues are resolved. • Verifies compliance with all department, property, and company policies, standards, and procedures. • Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention. • Coordinates activities with other hotel departments in order to facilitate increased levels of communication and guest satisfaction. • Displays leadership in guest hospitality exemplifies excellent customer service and creates a positive atmosphere for guest relations. • Empower employees to provide excellent customer service. • Verifies that all Front Office areas have an atmosphere that is conducive to the overall guest experience. • Review guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement. • Responds to and handle guest problems and complaints. • 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. • Solicits employee feedback utilizes an “open door” policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns. • Verifies employees are treated fairly and equitably. • Manages employee progressive discipline procedures for Front Office Staff. • Administers the performance appraisal process for direct report managers. • Interviews and hires managers and hourly employee team members with the appropriate skills and in a timely manner to meet the business needs of the operation. • Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. • Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution and solve problems. • Informs and/or updates the executives, peers, and subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner. • Identifies and analyzes departmental operational challenges and facilitates the development of solutions to prevent reoccurrence. Qualifications: Must have open availability to include days, nights, weekends, overnights and holidays, as needed for business demands Education: • High school or equivalent (Preferred) Experience: • Front Office Management: 3 years (Preferred) Hotel Management: • 3 years (Preferred)

• This is a supervisory role with direct reports including Front Desk Agents, and Night Audit. • 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 builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. • Serves 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. • Ensures recognition of employees is taking place across areas of responsibility. • Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, and standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis. • Conducts department meetings and continually communicates a clear and consistent message regarding department goals to produce desired results. • Review staff levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs, and financial objectives are met. • Manages department controllable expenses to achieve or exceed budgeted goals. • Handle guest complaints and verify that all guest issues are resolved. • Verifies compliance with all department, property, and company policies, standards, and procedures. • Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention. • Coordinates activities with other hotel departments in order to facilitate increased levels of communication and guest satisfaction. • Displays leadership in guest hospitality exemplifies excellent customer service and creates a positive atmosphere for guest relations. • Empower employees to provide excellent customer service. • Verifies that all Front Office areas have an atmosphere that is conducive to the overall guest experience. • Review guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement. • Responds to and handle guest problems and complaints. • 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. • Solicits employee feedback utilizes an “open door” policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns. • Verifies employees are treated fairly and equitably. • Manages employee progressive discipline procedures for Front Office Staff. • Administers the performance appraisal process for direct report managers. • Interviews and hires managers and hourly employee team members with the appropriate skills and in a timely manner to meet the business needs of the operation. • Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. • Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution and solve problems. • Informs and/or updates the executives, peers, and subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner. • Identifies and analyzes departmental operational challenges and facilitates the development of solutions to prevent reoccurrence.