Guest Services Agent ("Agente de Servicio al Cliente")

POSITION PURPOSE

Perform in a pleasant, professional, and efficient manner, a combination of duties related mainly to guests needs, including but not limited to; registration, checkout and cashiering thereby contributing to an overall pleasant and positive guest experience.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Greet and welcome guests upon arrival.
• Execute the registration and checkout process at the front desk.
• Accept payment for guests accounts both at the time of registration and at checkout. Maintain a house bank and make a deposit and accurate reports of receipts daily. Cash checks and exchange currency for guests.
• Accurately handle cash transactions and balance a cash drawer to the given amount.
• Acknowledge rewards members and returning guests.
• Take and manage guest bookings, up-selling opportunities and telling them about ways to improve their stay.
• Handle cash and credit transactions.
• Review current days arrival reports. Check all special request reservations to ensure that the room is blocked per request, VIPs identified, billing is set up correctly, deposits are taken, and other departments are notified of room assignment.
• Attend all scheduled training, departmental and hotel meetings.
• Ensure awareness of special promotions, daily activities, arriving VIPs, Group/Conferences in house, special requests, and scheduled shuttles.
• Practice safe work habits and ensure safe work practices to avoid injury to self and others.
• Ensure all privacy and security protocols are followed as well as departmental and company procedures.
• Answer all calls promptly correctly transfer all calls to appropriate departments.
• Confer and cooperate with other departments to ensure coordination of guest needs. Logging of all guest requests and room defects in the appropriate system. Follow up with guest after the completion of requests and repairing of any defects to ensure resolution to their satisfaction.
• Answer inquiries pertaining to hotel policies, services, registration, shopping, dining, entertainment, and travel directions.
• Maintain an extensive knowledge of the hotel, its services, and facilities. Along with a general knowledge of the city where the hotel is located and its attractions.
• Maintain lobby cleanliness and organization.

• Assist in booking reservations.
• Assist with handling mail, packages, facsimiles, and guest items.

• All other duties assigned by manager or supervisor.

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the manager based upon the particular requirements of the hotel:

• Assist with any guest inquiry.
• Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures.
• Report maintenance problems, safety hazards, accidents, or injuries.
• Perform other reasonable job duties as requested by direct and indirect supervisors.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Environmental conditions are inside, a job is considered inside if staff spends approximately 75 percent or more of the time inside. Temperature is moder