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Rooms Division Manager - Four Points by Sheraton Ikot Ekpene
Marriott International, Inc. • Akwa Ibom
Posted: 20 October 2026Deadline: 3 November 2026
📋 Requirements
- •Education and Experience:
📝 Description
- •Job Summary
- •Assists the Front Office Manager in administering front office functions and supervising staff on a daily basis.
- •Front office areas include Bell/Door Staff, Switchboard and Guest Services/Front Desk.
- •Position directs and works with managers and employees to carry out procedures ensuring an efficient check in and check out process.
- •Ensures guest and employee satisfaction and maximizes the financial performance of the department.
- •Candidate Profile
- •Education and Experience:
- •High school diploma or GED; 2 years experience in the guest services, front desk, or related professional area.
- •OR
- •2-year degree from an accredited university in Hotel and Restaurant Management, Hospitality, Business Administration, or related major; no work experience required.
- •Core Work Activities
- •Maintaining Guest Services and Front Desk Goals:
- •Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
- •Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- •Handles complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- •Supervises staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met.
- •Ensures that regular on-going communication is happening with employees to create awareness of business objectives and communicate expectations, recognizes performance, and produces desired results.
- •Understands the impact of department’s operations on the overall property financial goals and objectives and manages to achieve or exceed goals.
- •Supporting Management of Front Desk Team:
- •Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- •Encourages and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- •Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
- •Supervises and manages employees.
- •Manages all day-to-day operations.
- •Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.
- •Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
- •Supervises all areas of the Front Office in the absence of the Front Office or Assistant Front Office Manager.
- •Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service:
- •Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
- •Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
- •Responds to and handles guest problems and complaints.
- •Sets a positive example for guest relations.
- •Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
- •Observes service behaviors of employees and provides feedback to individuals.
- •Interacts with customers to obtain feedback on quality of product, service levels and overall satisfaction.
- •Ensures employees understand customer service expectations and parameters.
- •Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
- •Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.
- •Managing Projects and Policies:
- •Implements the customer recognition/service program, communicating and ensuring the process.
- •Trains staff and monitors adherence to all credit policies and procedures to reduce bad debts and rebates.
- •Supervises same day selling procedures to maximize room revenue and control property occupancy.
- •Supervises daily Front Desk shift operations and ensures compliance with all policies, standards and procedures.
- •Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently, disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures SOPs and LSOPs and support the Peer Review Process.
- •Supporting Human Resource Activities:
- •Supports the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- •Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an “open door” policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
- •Brings issues concerning employee satisfaction to the attention of the department manager and Human Resources.
- •Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with the appropriate skills.
- •Supports a departmental orientation program for employees to receive the appropriate new hire training to successfully perform their job.
- •Participates in employee progressive discipline procedures.
- •Additional Responsibilities:
- •Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- •Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- •Informs and/or updates the exe