Concierge Job in Kenya

Concierge

What is in it for you:

  • Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide
  • Learning programs through our Academies and the opportunity to earn qualifications while you work
  • Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world!
  • Ability to make a difference in the local community through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, like Planet 21

What you will be doing:

Reporting to the Front Office Manager, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

  • Assist guests with all inquiries, both hotel and non-hotel related
  • Conduct and attend effective shift briefings to ensure hotel activities and operational requirements are known
  • Maintain good relationship with Airport Concierge
  • Maintain good relationship with retailers and other service providers within the vicinity and ensure that information on their promotions are up to date
  • Maintain detailed knowledge of the activities of the day and of key occurrences in your city/location including directions to key points of interests, restaurants, theatres, shopping, cinemas, sporting and recreational facilities, banks, consulates, transport systems and special events

  • Maintain adequate supplies of forms and brochures and ensure they are presented in line with the hotel’s operating standards
  • Consult Log Book for information/requests left by outgoing shift
  • Manage incoming guest mail, messages, facsimiles and special deliveries
  • Manage all transportation requests
  • Manage outgoing guest mail, courier services and parcel postage as requested by guests
  • Maintain order and security of guest keys and other selected keys kept in Front Office, ensuring key issue policy is followed
  • Receive telephone calls and take messages for guests who are out
  • Conducts all of the above in accordance with the hotel’s policy, while adhering to Fairmont brand Standards

Your experience and skills include:

  • Skilled in Front Office operations and supervision with the ability to work in a multicultural and diverse environment
  • Minimum 3 – 5 years’ relevant experience with at least 2 year at a Guest services
  • Penchant for customer service and effectively manage guest complaints
  • Ability to train and manage a dynamic team
  • Excellent English communication skills; both verbal and written
  • Knowledge of Micros or similar POS systems, Opera or similar PMS systems and Microsoft Software

Your team and working environment:

Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya’s colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi’s finest and best-known luxury hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around Fairmont The Norfolk hotel, which boasts 170 guest rooms and suites, and still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi’s most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served continuously from morning until midnight.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.

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