Hotel Manager at Greengates Group Limited

Greengates Group Limited is a multinational and majorly family held equity company established over 22 years ago to provide world-class products and services in all the countries it operates. From a vantage position, presence and partnerships with time tested and successful institutions in major industrialized and commercial capital in Europe, North America and Asia, we have acquired a world-class solution to meeting our customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Hotel Manager

Locations: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Scope and General Purpose

• To drive the business by increasing profit for the hotel and to manage the operational area in such a manner that customer satisfaction and budgeted profit margins are achieved and that a good company image is projected, thus ensuring continued growth.
• Responsible to: The Director
• Responsible for: All hotel staff
• Liaises with:
  • Other Operations Managers
  • Heads of Department
  • Accountant
  • Administration
  • Purchasing Department
• Limits of Authority:
  • According to each company's regulations.

Main Duties

• Have a great marketing ability
• To drive business into the hotel to ensure profitability.
• To ensure the efficient management of all department.
• To ensure that each unit contributes the agreed budgeted profits.
• To provide effective leadership through professional man-management and encouragement of subordinates.
• To carry out regular, meaningful performance appraisals conducted in such a manner that effective, open, two-way communication is maintained.
• To follow up and ensure that the agreed action and developmental plans identified at these appraisals are being effected.
• To carry out monthly performance reviews, coach and direct activities to achieve desired performance.
• To draw up, in conjunction with the Personnel Manager, meaningful succession and career plans for all management staff.
• To monitor progress of agreed succession and career plans and ensure that these are adhered to.
• To ensure that unit managers are conducting regular performance appraisals and drawing up appropriate action and developmental training plans for their subordinate managers, using job descriptions as a guide.
• To ensure that the company's objective relating to labour turnover is achieved or bettered.
• To ensure that subordinates are totally conversant with and practising good industrial relations procedures.
• To ensure that subordinates are totally conversant with and implementing all company policies and procedures.
• To review and analyse monthly results, highlight problem areas and take appropriate action to rectify poor performance.
• To ensure that all financial targets are being achieved, e.g. through purchase discounts, debt collection, etc.
• To compile and agree meaningful, achievable budgets through accurate research and application of in-depth knowledge of the industry.
• To make recommendations for salary increases for subordinate staff, basing these recommendations on objective performance reviews and market-related equivalent positions.
• To stay "close to the customer" and maintain effective communication with him at all times through a planned programme of formal meetings and entertainment.
• To ensure that complaints or problems are actioned without delay and that effective follow-up action takes place to avoid a recurrence.
• To ensure that the company's training objectives are achieved.
• To attend all company social and promotional functions, maintaining a high profile with current and prospective clients.
• To be aware of current trends in the industry and make suggestions how these could be implemented for the benefit of the company.
• To attend meetings and training courses as required and continually strive for the improvement of won professional skills.
• To liaise and work closely with external agents sales executives to ensure that realistic, achievable proposals are submitted and followed up on to meet set targets.
• To maintain effective working relationships with line and staff functions to ensure the efficient opening of new contracts.
• To ensure continuous patronage of clients to the hotel.
• To create awareness within and without to push traffic to the hotel.
• To use Social media to drive customers to the hotel.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2023.