Mohamed Elias, Front OfficeManager &  In Charge of House keeping department

Mohamed Elias

Front OfficeManager & In Charge of House keeping department

Rimal Hotel & Resort

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Hotel Managment
Experience
27 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 2 Months

Front OfficeManager & In Charge of House keeping department at Rimal Hotel & Resort
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • My current job since April 2009

1- Insure compliance with established company policies & procedures.
2- Providing courteous guest service, responding to guest inquiries, complains & request.
3- Recruiting, hiring& terminating Front office personnel as required.
4- Orienting & training of front office personnel.
5- Maintain labour cost goals established by Hospitality Management Corporation.
6- Maintaining proper credit & accounting procedures& taking appropriate timely action as necessary.
7- Build & Maintain team work among all front office staff.
8- Analyse the P&L on monthly bases to check the strength& the weakness points at the department & to control the department expenses.
9- Prepare &analyse the revenue reports.
10- Prepare the yearly stock for the guest amenities based on the forecast budget.
11- Control the total cost of the department without any affect at the quality of service.
12- Prepare the training program for the new hire staff.
13- Analysing booking patterns and market trends
14- Monitoring competitor performance
15- Effective yield management
16- Initiating promotions to generate business at key times
17- Forecasting revenue performance
18- Liaising with the sales teams, reception and the general manager

Front Office Manager at Rimal Hotel &Resort
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • March 1997 to July 2013

As Front Office Manager :
1-Insure compliance with established company policies & procedures.
2- Providing courteous guest service, responding to guest inquiries, complains & request.
3- Recruting, hirinh & terminating Front office personnel as required.
4- Orienting & training of front office personnel.
5- Maintaine labor cost goals established by hosbitality management corporation.
6- Maintaining proper credit & accounting prodcedures & taking appropriat timely action as necessary.
7- Build & Maintain team work among all front office staff.
8- Analiyze the P&L on monthly bases to check the stength& the weak points at the department & to control the department expenses.
9- Prepare & analyize the revenue reports.
10- prepare the yearly stock for the guest aminities based on the forecaste& budjet.
11- control the total cost of the department without any affect at the quality of service.
12- prepare the training program for the new hire staff.

Night Manager at Moevenpick Al Bidaa Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • April 2007 to April 2009

1- Handling guest request.
2- Handling guest complaint.
3- Follow up the operation of the department during the night.
4- Assist the front office manager at reducing the cost & monitoring the vacation balance of the staff.
5- Assist to achieve our target and generate highest revenue we can achieve
6- Prepare the night manager reports & present it to the F.O.M & General Manager
7- Assist The Revenue Manager by preparing the revenue reports

Education

Bachelor's degree, Hotel Managment
  • at Faculty of Tourism & Hotel
  • May 1996
Bachelor's degree, Hotel Management
  • at Faculty Of Tourism & Hotel
  • May 1996
Diploma, Kitchen department
  • at Technical Institute for Hotel
  • May 1992

Specialties & Skills

Challenges
Front Office
Guest Service
Revenue
Action Planning
calculated, centralized, chaired, changed, checked, clarified, classified, coached, collaborated, co
Coaching
controlling Expenses
Profit & Loss analysis
Market analysis
Revenue analysis

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

TSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Upselling Program
Date Attended:
January 2009
Duration:
12 hours

Hobbies

  • Playing Volly ball, reading
    I was playing Volleyball at Al Ahly Sport Club, i like to read news at the social media & comments of the experts about it. also i like to learn a new things about the hotel revenue & how to increase it, i had a training course for 1 week about revenue at Moevenpick Hotel & Resort.