Guest Relations Coordinator

at  Maybourne Hotel Group

• Claridge’s
• Guest Experience and Services
• Full time
  We are seeking a motivated Guest Relations (Services) Coordinator to join the guest services team, responsible for the administrative support for the guest services team.
  Set in the heart of Mayfair, Claridge’s is an art deco icon and a byword for understated elegance. Since the 1850s, Claridge’s has excelled at the finer things in life: glamorous design, inspiring dining, impeccable service. There are many 5-star hotels in London but nowhere quite like Claridge’s. The hotel is a unique combination of splendour and charm with long-standing connections with royalty that have led to it sometimes being referred to as “annexe to Buckingham Palace”. Claridge’s has a famous all-day dining and Afternoon Tea restaurant the ‘Foyer & Reading Room’, L’Epicerie that offers a culinary theatre of the kitchen, and three bars: Claridge’s Bar, the intimate Fumoir and effortlessly elegant Painter’s Room.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

We are looking for a strong, motivated individual, ideally someone who has worked in a similar role within the hospitality or travel and tourism industry. The person will be a team player who is an avid learner, adaptable and has exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Other skills that will need to be demonstrated include:

• Strong customer care skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Excellent attention to detail
• A high standard of personal presentation
• Confident, professional and welcoming personality
• Ability to deal with high profile clients in a professional manner

MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES

• Preferential room rates per overnight stay for yourself or your family across Maybourne.
• Hotel Guest Experience Stay* including an overnight stay and wining and dining at our renowned restaurants and bars.
• 50% Food and Beverage discount* across Maybourne.
• Social events (Annual Awards, Summer Maybourne Picnic, Welcome to Work, Annual Colleague Party, Annual Colleague Children’s Party, etc.)
• Wedding and Baby gifts.
• Retirement functions.
• Terms and conditions apply to all benefits.

In this role you will meet and greet guests on arrival, especially VIP and return guests when required, you will coordinate all VIP requirements and inform the relevant Departments. You will assist in all areas of Front Office operations to enable it to achieve optimum profitability and to maintain the financial control of the business by meeting and exceeding guest expectations and especially VIPs.

As a Guest Relations (Services) Coordinator your tasks will include but will not be limited to:

• Ensure accurate arrival reports, guest history and billing information
• Review VIP arrival’s report as well as arrange and confirm reservations of regular guests
• Ensure VIP status and VIP amenities are correctly recorded in arriving reservations; you will process and produce amenities lists
• Ensure a smooth check in and check out for our guests when necessary, maintaining our thorough standards
• Maintain and build rapport with each individual guest, to build guest profiles in order to create memorable experiences
• Support the guest services manager and guest services executives with other administration tasks where necessary