AVERAGE SALARY
$38-$200k
SKILLS DEMAND
medium
CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN New Zealand
5 789
What is a Hotel Manager
A Hotel Manager is fully responsible for managing and running all aspects of a hotel including hospitality, guest services and more. Day to day tasks include but are not limited to:
- Manage, co-ordinate and oversee all marketing activities for the hotel
- Meet and greet visitors, assisting them with the check-in process
- Assist with visitor accommodation bookings
- Co-ordinate and arrange tours and concierge services
- Oversee the day to day management of the hotel website
- Responsible for budgetary requirements and handling accounts
- Manage and oversee health and safety requirements
- Management and training of staff and large staff groups
- Coordination and planning of hotel events
Getting in and Qualifications
Personal Skills
Hotel Managers will have a set of personal skills that will help them navigate the specifics of their role. They include but are not limited to:
- Efficiently organised with strong planning skills
- Outgoing and personable with the ability to put people at ease
- Patient, professional and polite
- Perceptive and intuitive understanding of visitors needs
- Helpful and friendly
- Strong communication skills
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to relate to all kinds of people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures
- Calm and logical in emergency situations
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making abilities
- Able to accept feedback and criticism
- Fit and healthy
- Well-groomed
Work Experience Pathways
- Hospitality work experience
- Tourism industry work experience
- Host at places of interest such as wine farms and museums
- Travel experience
- Multicultural work experience
- Roles in public speaking
- Communications roles
- Management experience
- F&B Manager Roles
- Executive Housekeeper experience
Subject Pathways
- English
- Maths
- Accounting
- Economics
- Linguistics
- Asian Languages
- European Languages
- Te Reo Māori
- Business Management
