Front of House Manager

Working with us provides great benefits, including:

• Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform ‘Wagestream,’ a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
• Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
• 50% off Food Beverage at all our Hotels FB Venues
• Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
• Retail, Cinema Leisure Discounts
• Development Opportunities via our ‘Grow with us’ initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
• Monthly ‘Star of the Month’ Awards
• Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
• ‘Recommend a Friend’ Incentive – Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
• Access to a confidential ‘Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)’ available 24/7, 365 days per year.
• Pension Scheme
• Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

About the role…

The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience. You’ll deliver this through managing all aspects of Front of House, creating a unique and special visit for our guests. You’ll also create the warm atmosphere that make our guests feel at home in any location, as well as ensuring they have an enjoyable and successful stay

Amongst other things, you’ll do this by managing the day-to-day staffing needs, plan and assign work and establish performance and development goals for team members. Provide mentoring, coaching and regular feedback to improve team member performance - Initiating and completing any HR related activities where required. You’ll be aware of and create departmental goals, ensuring communication of these across the team so they are all working towards achieving or exceeding targets such as Guest Satisfaction Scores

About you...

• Excellent leadership skills with experience of developing and leading a team
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relation skills to ensure a seamless and memorable experience, proactively resolving any challenges that may arise
• Strong communication skills through a variety of means
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to stay calm under pressure, adapting your approach to complete routine and non-routine tasks
• High attention to detail and accuracy – great at managing one’s own time and the time of the team

About us…

At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

The Cairn Group’s Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre is a modern hotel conveniently located near to the Birmingham New Street train station.
The hotel is within an easy walk of the great bars and restaurants found in the Arcadian complex, as well as both the Hippodrome and New Alexandra theatres, Birmingham’s China Town district, The Mailbox shopping centre and the Bullring commercial area.

Benefits:
IHG Staff Rate Scheme
IHG Friends Family Rate
IHG Brand Training
Cairn Group Staff Discount Scheme
Retail and travel discounts
Recruit a friend Scheme
Induction and training programme
Star of the Month Golden Ticket Award
Pension scheme
'Cairn Academy' Training Development Opportunities
Uniform
Cycle 2 work scheme*
(* Applies to positions above minimum wage)