Monty Suites is an indigenous fast-growing chain of hotels, built on global best practice of service culture with a strong commitment to professional standards.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Titles: Night Manager and Night Auditor

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Position Summary

• Night Manager will represent the Management during the night. The Night Manager also assists the Front Office Manager in all aspects of the department including but not limited to operations, planning, budgeting and staffing in accordance with hotel policies and procedures.
• The Night Manager provides leadership and support to all members of the Front Office and enforces the Hotels Standards of Excellence in all areas supervised.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor activities of all employees in the Front Office department making sure they adhere to the standards of excellence and to the guidelines set in the employee handbook, hotel policies and procedures, coaching, training and correcting where needed.
• Direct and oversee all hotel operations during the night shift to ensure guest satisfaction and safety.
• Conduct Briefing for all staff during Night Shift.
• Inform all Overnight staff of nightly activities, group and VIP arrivals as well as special requests and repeat guests.
• Check accommodations, making sure any special requests are carried out accordingly, greet guests upon arrival and ensure escort to accommodations if appropriate.
• Maintain a professional and high-quality service-oriented environment at all times.
• Act as manager on duty for the hotel in the absence of the Front Office Manager dealing with complaints, problem solving, disturbances, special requests and any other issues that may arise.
• Manage the night shift in the department ensuring all employees perform the tasks assigned to them and coordinate Front Office activities with other departments.
• Ensure that the public areas are kept clean and tidy.
• Occasionally Assist guests with their luggage, be a point of contact for our guests, valet park guests cars and other responsibilities to ensure all requirements are met during our guests stay.
• Must actively participate in the decision-making process on guest relocation for nights when over capacity, execute accordingly and ensure a smooth relocation process. This effort must be coordinated with the Front Office Manager and/or Manager on Duty prior to shift start.
• Monitor and develop team member performance to include, but not limited to, providing supervision, scheduling, assigning nightly work, conducting training, conducting counselling and evaluations and delivering recognition and also reward.
• Ensure the accurate completion of the daily night audit in a timely fashion.
• Must be able to perform the full night audit if needed.
• Oversee preparation of daily summary reports.
• Must work with Initiative and possess Problem Solving, Training, Team Leading skills.
• Work closely with the Housekeeping Department to improve guest services and foster cross departmental communication.
• Be aware and able to enforce all fire-life-safety procedures.
• Remain current in all updates with regards to new procedures.
• Report any suspicious persons, activities and/or hazardous conditions to the Security department and/or the Manager.

Prerequisities:

• Must be able to communicate in English writing and speaking and other languages are advantages.
• Good personality and charming is important to be the Night Manager in the way to represent himself on behalf of hotel management.

Qualifications

• Graduates Bachelor’s Degree and / or Diploma in Hotel or other related field.
• Good knowledge of the Computer and experience in MS office programs.

Experience:

• Previous Front Office experience in supervisory/management capacity in a Mid scale or Luxury property is required.
• Previous customer service and general computer experience required. Property Management Software experience required.

Application Closing Date
26th April, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: hr.lekki@montysuites.com using the Position as the subject of the email.