Reservation Manager

Your Fairmont Journey Starts Here:

Are you a someone with a passion for excellence and a flair for exceptional hospitality? Fairmont Udaipur Palace invites you to embark on an unforgettable journey of luxury and join our pre-opening team.

• To manage the reservations operations, ensuring the hotel standards and procedures are fully known and followed.
• To ensure a proper teamwork and supervise the reservation and telephone operator section at all times.
• To ensure the all incoming and out going room reservation request are attended and handled as per the hotel standards and procedures.
• To attract guest and to enhance their loyalty, providing a distinctive service through communication and sales skills, in order to improve the hotel’s image and to increase revenue.
• To recognize potential clients and to transmit information to the sales Department.
• To recognize VIP guests and to apply the concerned policies.
• To maintain a good commercial relationship with all the bookers: Guest/companies/Agencies.
• To promote the Accor loyalty programs and the hotel promotions.
• To ensure the privacy of the guests and the confidentiality of the information is respected.
• To act as representative of the Management when dealing with guest complaints or if a member of the reservation team is facing difficulties that she/he cannot solve on her/his own.
• To manage any guest complaint in a professional manner, by owning it, resolving it to the guest satisfaction and recoding it.
• To be fully aware of and to report all guest comments or complaints.
• To ensure the Guest History records are accurately maintained and all recurring guest are pre-registered.
• To ensure a perfect knowledge of the hotel configuration and products among the team members.
• To ensure the achievement of Quality tools and yield Management performance with the reservation team.
• To implement and control the Focus and other financial and audit procedures.
• To offer assistance at any time in the operation and monitor, highlight and suggest improvements on any dysfunction.
• To ensure and perform a proper use of all the equipment and property management system, to have a perfect knowledge of the set ups.
• To implement and follow up daily check lists.
• To assist in securing external guest accommodation should an overbooking occur.
• To provide updated reports and statistics to the management and other departments.
• Update availability and rates charts on TARS and other booking systems /channels.

• Bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Proven experience in reservations management within the Luxury hospitality.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with guests and team members.
• Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail, with the capacity to prioritize tasks and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in reservation management software and familiarity with point-of-sale systems is advantageous.
• Ability to remain calm and composed under pressure, with demonstrated problem-solving skills.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are an inclusive company, and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.