Reservation Ambassador

**Company Description**
Raffles is a collection of luxury hotels and resorts worldwide, each distinguished by its luxury, elegance and residential charm. Raffles Hotels & Resorts are one-of-a-kind properties, each one a landmark in its respective city, positioned at the top of its local market and rated among the very best in the world.
**Job Description** Prime Function**:

- Plan the room reservations.
- Ensure proper selling techniques and strategies are utilized to maximize room revenues.
- Coordinate all duties and responsibilities of the reservation department ensuring a high level of accuracy and efficiency.
- Any matter which may effect the interests of **the hotel** should be brought to the attention of the Management.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Sales & Marketing Planning**:

- Plan & prepare forecasts on a timely basis for review.
- Plan & prepare monthly reports, forecasts and other relevant reports.
- Ensure that the various monthly statistical reports are generated and assist in the development of occupancy forecasts for the annual budget.

**People Management**:

- Provide effective support to the team to enable them to provide effective and efficient services.
- Respond to customer queries by resolving issues in a timely and efficient manner to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Ensure that the team has been trained for all safety provisions.

**Financial Management**:

- Identify optimal, cost effective use of the resources and educate the team on the same.
- Maintain and update corporate database, entering guest bookings to ensure guest information / records are kept up to date and accurate for future events.
- Assist in the development of occupancy forecasts for the annual budget.

**Operational Management**:

- Ensure that team refers to guest history before creating a Guest folio to follow special instruction in case of regular and VIP Guests.
- Ensure the accurate positioning of the hotel in terms of occupancy and rooms availability
- Ensure that the corporate account number is recorded on the Guest Folio to help monitor quantum of business generated through respective companies.
- Ensure calculative overbooking.
- Give discounts and corporate rates, as per the company’s policy.
- Supervise and delegate work to reservation associate
- Ensure that all reservations are recorded as per standard procedures.
- Handle additional responsibilities as and when delegated by the Management.

**Managerial Qualities**:

- Leadership skills that utilize persuasion and motivation to attain organizational goals is the most desirable management quality, followed by honesty, integrity, ethical behaviour, tactfulness, openness, and cultural awareness;
- Ability to accept responsibility;
- Self confidence, motivation, drive and tenacity;
- Ability to enhance organizational performance;
- Ability to clearly delegate tasks and responsibilities;
- Ability to think strategically, inductively, and creatively;
- and the propensity to recognize and acknowledge other peoples’ ideas.

**Replacement and Temporary Mission**:
Be ready and responsible for any job, which may be assigned by the Management.
**Qualifications**
Minimum 1 year of social event experience with similar capacity to 5-star hotels.

Good communication and customer contact skills

Post-Secondary Education or relevant qualifications for reservation.
**Additional Information**
- Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities
- Opera Experienced
- Fluency in English, additional languages are a plus.