Blu Atlantic Hotel is a luxurious 50 rooms hotel with beautiful architectural masterpiece and finest serenity and ambience. This hotel edifice is built with state of the art facilities and quality and modern infrastructure to compete with current technological trends. Blu Atlantic Hotel is one of the leading hotels in the heart of Lekki with best service delivery.
We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:
1.) Procurement Officer
Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Description
- As a Procurement/Purchasing Officer, You should work with suppliers to negotiate contracts for the purchase of required goods and keep accurate records of transaction trends.
- Also to assist the Finance and Operational Departments in the monitoring, reporting and controlling of Cost of Sales in the hotel, including audit and control, financial analysis and reporting, budgeting, forecasting etc.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Implement sound purchasing policies, systems and procedures in accordance with Hotelstandards.
- Monitor vendors for quality, service and price through standard purchasing specifications.
- Obtain competitive quotations for hotel requirements and ensure that the best product is sourced and purchased.
- Calls for quotations for any items costing more than a certain amount (As per company policy) and inquire into prices from various suppliers.
- A minimum of three independent genuine quotations must be obtained.
- Establish contracts to ensure reduced pricing for all operating areas of the hotel.
- Ensures & verifies that quotations are regularly updated and supplier’s new current price lists are maintained.
- Ensure the efficient operation of the Purchasing Department in all aspects.
- Receives market list from the Executive Chef, F&B Supervisor and collate together with inventory officer on a daily basis and arrange for delivery of those items.
- Ensures that all orders receiving dates are updated by the buyers according to the supplier’s promised delivery dates.
- Ensures that all authorized or approved purchase orders are sent to their respective suppliers/vendors for delivery purposes on a daily basis.
- Research and identify new products and services for the hotel in the market.
- Obtains wrote approval for established Minimum / Maximum stock levels by the financial controller and general manager.
- Checks, explain if needed and approves delivered items discrepancy report issued by cost control regarding price and quantity order variances.
- Approves all additional requests for new storeroom items, checking correct item description, unit, packing, category and establishing Min/Max estimated stock levels.
- Verify the ‘pending orders’ report on a daily basis, and all pending orders are checked and verified regularly.
- On a daily basis prepare the list of to-be-cancelled orders and sent to accounts for deletion, with appropriate reasons.
- Issues regularly slow moving item lists.
- Identifies items for standing orders utilising vendor’s logistics for regular deliveries to the hotel based on approved highly consumed items.
- Ensures validity of items available, force issue obsolete items and follows up on action taken for disposal.
- Verifies that all documentation and proper quotations are maintained and filed according to Policy and Procedure requirements.
- Approves all storeroom re-order requests, verifying quantities within the established Min/Max stock levels.
- Responsible for maintaining logical storeroom inventory levels operationally needed.
- Spot checks storeroom requests if properly maintained, verifies quantity requested and issued, proper items received by signatories & ID availability.
- Spot-checks entered system quotations, period validity quotes locked by, etc.
- Ensures that the suppliers follow the rules relating to the hygiene of goods delivered.
- Responsible for all administrative functions of the Materials Department, staffing, training and execution of other related duties.
- Responsible for all purchasing functions, quotations, quality and availability.
- Responsible for physical control of all store items until issued, fully documented under strict control procedures (key control, timing schedule, authorised issue requests).
- Keeps all records in a way that they can be checked at any time for information or audit purposes.
- Liaison with the Purchasing Coordinator, Receiving Agent, Stores Supervisor andCost Controller
- Maintains all documents, files and listings up-to-date and performs his duties in the most efficient manner.
- Willing to work a flexible schedule in order to accomplish all major responsibilities and tasks.
Education
- Graduate or Diploma in Business Studies or MBA or Purchasing and Supply. With good knowledge of MS office suite and Materials management software (MMS)
Prerequisite:
- Strong negotiating and closing skills are required, along with a demonstrated ability to develop negotiation strategies for complex activities. Ability to evaluate legal and business risks and ramifications of proposed contractual terms. Consistently offer professional, engaging and friendly service
Experience:
- Previous Minimum of 4 years of experience as Procurement/Purchase Officer4 years with expertise in the Hotel and Catering industry.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV / Resume to: career@bluatlantichotel.com and copy: bluatlantichotel@gmail.com using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.
2.) Night Auditor / Internal Audit & Control Officer
Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- The Night Auditor will responsible to conduct all nightly audit-related duties while providing guest service at the hotel’s front desk. Audit responsibilities balancing duties, daily paperwork, and shift reports.
- While completing these duties, the Night Auditor will attend to guest needs such as guest check-in/check-outs, making reservations, and answering guest questions
- Perform and control the full audit cycle including risk management and control management over operations’ effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations
- Determine internal audit scope and develop annual plans
- Obtain,analysisand evaluate accounting documentation, previous reports, data, flowcharts etc
- Prepare and present reports that reflect audit’s results and document process
- Act as an objective source of independent advice to ensure validity, legality and goal achievement
- Identify loopholes and recommend risk aversion measures and cost savings
- Maintain open communication with management and audit committee
- Responsible for counting cash and maintaining the accuracy of the issued cash drawer at the beginning and end of each scheduled shift.
- Check the front desk log for problems, special requests, etc.
- Greets, registers, and assigns rooms to guests.
- Document process and prepare audit findings memorandum
- Conduct follow up audits to monitor management’s interventions
- Engage to continuous knowledge development regarding sector’s rules, regulations, best practices, tools, techniques and performance standards
- Proactive thinking, keeping guest security always in mind, and creating a safe, clean, and friendly work environment.
- Process guest registrations, including collecting payment.
- Prepare express checkout folios.
- Maintain room status inventory.
- Communicate all pertinent shift information to Front Office Manager, General Manager, and other desk staff.
- Maintain and clean the lobby and bathroom as needed.
- Communicates all information to the following shift to ensure a smooth transition.
- Works closely with all hotel departments to ensure the highest quality of customer service.
- To ensure compliance with FOCUS internal control guidelines
- Monitor stock movement control environment within the hotel and advise the management on the best ways to optimize on stocks
- Conduct surprise checks on the outlets to make sure proper billing and adherence to internal procedures
- Answers inquiries pertaining to hotel services; registration of guests; and shopping, dining, entertainment, and travel directions. Explains in-room and hotel features.
- Responsible for completing all required shift paperwork, and night audit reports daily.
- Performs other duties as assigned by management.
- Do a market survey for purchases to make sure purchase prices and quality meets the requirement.
- Ensure revenues are all captured and well accounted for to avoid any leaks
- Perform special duties as assigned by the management and report back with the recommendation
- Ensure compliance with auditing standards and requirement as well as data privacy.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess a B.Sc Degree with 10+ years of relevant work experience.
Salary
N150,000 – N200,000 Monthly.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV / Resume to: bluatlantichotel@gmail.com and copy career@bluatlantichotel.com using “Night Auditor” as the subject of the mail.
3.) Hotel Housekeeper / Room Service Attendant
Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- A Hotel Housekeeper is responsible for ensuring rooms and other areas of a hotel are kept clean everyday.
- A hotel housekeeping job description usually entails making beds, replacing used towels with new ones, vacuuming carpets, and cleaning and disinfecting bathrooms and ensuring new toiletries provided by the hotel are placed at appropriate places.
- Where they find the light is bad or furniture needing repair, they should immediately contact the technical or maintenance department to fix them.
- Aside from the rooms, hotel housekeeping may also entail making the general hotel environment appealing and comfortable to guests.
- The housekeeper work description may therefore also involve keeping conference rooms, lobby, hallways, and the carpets found in the stairs clean by vacuuming them. It may also involve cleaning the furniture and windows.
- Housekeepers may also work in a hotel’s laundry department where they wash and dry linens like towels and sheets and restock linen carts in addition to their cleaning duties.
- The housekeeper is particularly expected to carry out a series of cleaning functions when a guest leaves the hotel, such as changing bed sheets and polishing the furniture to keep them looking good for the use of another guest.
- The housekeeper should also look out for items the guest may have left behind and take it to the lost and found desk where it will be returned to the owner.
- The role of the housekeeper in the operation of a hotel also entails observing the condition of the room they are cleaning to be sure everything is okay in the room, including the light bulbs.
- For big hotels, you can find housekeepers who work solely in the laundry department and others performing only cleaning functions, while in smaller hotels housekeepers may be required to combine laundry duties with cleaning tasks.
The following is a job description example that shows major tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are expected from intending applicants:
- Answer immediately to request from guests, as well as from other departments
- Load cart with supplies such as linens and move it to the required area
- Enter guest rooms by adhering to proper procedures and ensure they are vacant
- Replace used amenities in guest rooms
- Adjust furniture, desk items, and appliances when necessary
- Dust furnishings and walls and remove marks from them
- Provide clean linens and terry for dirty ones
- Fold terry, make beds, and ensure bathrooms are clean
- Take away, room service items, dirty linen, and trash
- Perform check on all room appliances to ensure they are in good working condition
- Carry out floor care duties in hallway and guest rooms, and vacuum carpets
- Adhere to all safety, security, and company procedures and policies
- Provide immediate report of any safety hazards, injuries, maintenance problem, or accidents to the supervisor
- Keep proprietary information confidential
- Ensure company standards are followed in welcoming and acknowledging all guests
- Apply professional language in communicating with guests and other people
- Provide support to team to achieve common goals
- Successfully complete training and certification programs in safety
- Ensure flammable materials are properly stored
- Keep uniform clean and make sure to appear professional always
- Maintain quality standards and expectations
- Expect service needs of guests and provide them even before called upon to do so
- Provide assistance to guests with disabilities
- Genuinely appreciate and thank guests for their visit
- Without assistance, carry, place, move, or lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds; with assistance for items beyond 25 pounds.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV / Resume to: bluatlantichotel@gmail.com and copy career@bluatlantichotel.com using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.