Assistant Housekeeping Manager - Malmaison, Brighton

Malmaison
Brighton, East Sussex
Competitive Salary
18 Oct 2016
25 Oct 2016
Full Time

The clue to Malmaison’s distinctive character is our passion for creating memories in an aspirational lifestyle brand. Malmaison is flirty, sexy and sophisticated. Inviting and seductive. Our customers feel special. They’re all celebrities in our eyes, and deserve VIP treatment. Our locations also make us very different from other UK hotels. Guests might find themselves checking into a converted church, a former prison, a hospital, or even a Royal Mail sorting office. Each hotel is a unique transformation, designed with a bold, adventurous vision of luxurious hospitality.
In return you get to work for great brands with like minded people with an award winning benefit package including:

  • A range of fabulous flexible benefits to help you outside of work – including health & life insurance.
  • A contributory Pension Scheme
  • A Childcare scheme providing tax credits on any childcare you may be paying.
  • Service Charge (department specific) which will be performance driven
  • Free uniform
  • Annual People Awards
  • Amazing People Engagement and Activity Plan
  • Employee assistance scheme to help you navigate through life’s challenges
  • Generous holiday entitlement
  • Fantastic company discounts including staff rates & Food & Beverage discounts at all of our exciting locations
  • Major high street discounts –helpful when buying things to treat you or others!

Assistant Housekeeping Manager

Job Description:

Too good to ‘Turn Down’… You’re key to assisting the Head Housekeeper take responsibility for ensuring that all our rooms are cleaned to the required high standard during a guest stay or upon their departure. Assistant Housekeeping Managers are required to manage a team of room attendants, public area cleaners and linen porters to ensure that rooms are ready on time. From checking the rooms are styled with an eye for detail and a passion for cleaning. to motivating the team, allocating daily and weekly tasks, working closely with the maintenance department, and maintain high standards or cleanliness throughout the hotel. You will be passionate about hospitality and will be organised, an excellent communicator, a hands on manager who has excellent attention to detail. Experience of working in a housekeeping department of a similar quality hotel is required and previous experience of working with Fidelio / Opera is beneficial. This position will also be excellent development to get you to a Head Housekeeper standard.

There are big plans for this beautiful property on Brighton Marina waterfront, the latest hotel to become a Malmaison. Currently decked in modern vibrant decor and retro pop art, the hotel has a style all of its own. Over time we aim to bring this exciting building in line with Malmaison’s superb standards and personality, whilst sensitively keeping those artful individual touches that already make a stay at this fantastic Brighton hotel so unique. The hotel is already in the perfect location in Brighton, offering current guests the best views the Marina has to offer whilst still enjoying close connections to the vibrant local nightlife. We’ve already introduced Malmaison’s superb menus, so you can enjoy divine Mal Classic dishes in a unique restaurant setting with floor to ceiling windows and views over the water. Or if the waterfront is making you thirsty, feel free to dive straight into one of Mal's famous Malchemy cocktails in the lounge overlooking the Marina, or take it outside to our water-facing boat terrace to catch a glittering ocean. With a great team and big plans in the future, yachts aren’t the only impressive things on the horizon for this exciting hotel.