Senior Hotel Reservations Manager

3 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa C & G (Hospitality) Recruitment Full time

**International Blue Chip company is requiring a Senior Operations Manager for its central reservations department**.

**NB: Minimum 5 years experience managing a hotel reservations call centre**

**Job Scope**:
The Sr Operations Manager oversees operational activities of the **Central Reservations Department.** Their duties include managing the day to day of the department to ensure the department makes a profit. The manager will also need to hire and train new employees as well as oversee the quality assurance of all employees.

The operations manager will also meet regularly with customers to ensure they are happy and we are meeting their expectations. In addition to this the operations manager will take the lead with onboarding all new customers in the central reservations department.

**Key Responsibility Areas**
- Ensuring all operations are carried on in an appropriate, cost-effective way
- Trend analysis for improved efficiency
- Improving operational management systems, processes and best practices
- Customer acquisition and retention

**Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- Effective communication of departmental and organizational Vision, Mission, Targets and KPIs
- Interact with clients demonstrating engaged leadership and detail orientation
- Lead, motivate, and support a large team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment
- Career development plans for all direct reports and problem resolution
- Manage budgets and call volume forecasts
- Analyzing data and identifying trends within the department; liaising with higher management to identify opportunities for improvement
- Responsible for upward and downward communication both internally and as required to the client
- Partner with cross-functional teams to improve proprietary tools and systems
- Track staffing requirements, hiring new employees as needed
- Other duties as assigned

**Salary**: R55,000.00 - R60,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

- Are you a SA citizen with a valid SA ID?
- Do you have a CLEAR criminal record?
- Do you have a CLEAR credit ITC record?
- Kindly list all Hospitality Reservations Software programs you are skilled in?

**Education**:

- Diploma (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Hotel Reservations: 8 years (preferred)
- Multi Complex Hotel Reservations Management: 5 years (required)



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