Nitesh Chadha, Director of Guest Services

Nitesh Chadha

Director of Guest Services

Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Statistics & Accounting
Experience
26 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 6 Months

Director of Guest Services at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2012

• Responsible to provide lasting guest experience associated to the brand
• Develop and lead the team to deliver excellence in to guest experience with enhanced satisfaction, loyalty, advocacy and commercial success, including the development of Managers within the team
• Responsible to design, development and delivery of services to enhance guest satisfaction, ensuring new initiatives to meet all guest needs - providing a seamless guest service.
• Source new opportunities for guest experience, looking for uniqueness and exclusivity.
• Control existing budget, ensuring value for money, and use current and future partnerships agreements
• Lead business cases and project teams for introduction of new products managing and in co-ordination with procurement, training, and department heads
• Negotiation of new and existing contracts, for example Limousine and Tours Desk as appropriate

Front Office Manager at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2009 to January 2012
Cluster Reservations Manager (Opening team) at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2008 to October 2009

Managing reservations for 2 hotels (636 rooms inventory)

Reservations Officer (Pre-Opening) at Emirates Airline
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2007 to May 2008
Assistant Reservations Manager at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2005 to March 2007
Guest Services Executive at Jumeirah Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2002 to January 2005
Chief Concierge (Pre-opening) at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
  • India
  • August 1999 to August 2002
Housekeeping Assistant (Pre-opening) at Oberoi Hotels
  • India - Jaipur
  • August 1997 to April 1999

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Statistics & Accounting
  • at Lal Bahadur Shastri College
  • August 1997

Bachelor of Commerce

Specialties & Skills

Training
Driving Revenue
Cost Reduction
Pre opening
Customer Focus
Microsoft Office
Opera, Fidelio and Protel
Operational Innovation (Six Sigma Green Belt)
six Sigma Green Belt

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Harverd Manage Mentor (Training)
Training Institute:
Harverd
Date Attended:
April 2016
Duration:
160 hours
E-Commerce (Training)
Training Institute:
eHague University
Revenue Management (Training)
Training Institute:
eHague University

Hobbies

  • Traveling
    Visiting a minimum of one new Country every year. Countries visited in last 5 years - Austria, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Russia, Bangkok.