Night Manager
Accor
Richmond, VA, USA
Posted on Nov 10, 2025
Job Description
Key Deliverables and Responsibilities
Planning & Organizing:
- Review and update the Logbook.
- Be smart, well-groomed and maintain a friendly and cheerful disposition all the times.
- Report regularly on happenings to FOM and GM.
- Guests should not be kept waiting.
- Maintain associate relations.
- Resolve complaints.
- Handle the disputes.
- Ensure the services are up to the required standard.
- Smooth check-in / check-out procedures for the hotel and the residences component.
- Co-operation with hotel’s Departments Housekeeping, Engineering, F&B etc.
- Hotel tour as per list.
- Check hotel situation, occupancy, functions, groups and VIPs.
- Perform as per OSM Standards and in line with the 7 key issues and 4 corner stone’s.
- Be fully aware of the Talk of the Walk for the day
- Proper grooming at all times
- Attend training classes as per schedule
- Show fullest cooperation and respect within the team and other departments
Is aware of the daily activities and has product knowledge of all the hotel facilities
Operations:
- Direct and co-ordinate various services related to night operations as required.
- Ensures prompt, courteous and accurate service to all guests to maximize customer satisfaction to exceed TrustYou targets.
- Assure safety and security of the guests, visitors, employees and protects the property by working closely with hotel’s security personnel.
- Maintain an awareness of guest profile through the Opera guest profile system.
- Prepare and send night reports on time HODs and & GM, ensure accurate and detailed Hotel and Residences duty log, as well as any incident that may accrue overnight shift.
- Ensures adherence to company and hotel policies by all departmental employees.
- Ensures an effective handover of nights activities to the FOM.
- Ensure working closely with the Night Auditor, changing PMS business date on time, and resolve all pending issues and errors before changing business date.
- Ensure panic report is printed and filed every 2 hours (or at least twice a shift).
- Meet and greet all RIPs & MIPs on the arrival and departure during the night
- Check the no-shows and ensure all no-shows are guaranteed and chargeable.
- Pre-assign rooms for early arrival for the next day, coordinate with Housekeeping to ensure rooms are ready on arrivals.
- Establish, promote and maintain good public relations while meeting or exceeding guest expectations
- Call General Manager and concerned HOD’s without delay for any fire, bomb threat, burglary or death that has occurred on the premises.
- Calls Hotel Doctor, Security in case of guest accident and reported according.
- Handle all employees’ accident as per hotel policy.
- Ensures hotel's employees grooming & appearance standards are met.
- Handles government officials, press, etc. during the night and report it accordingly.
- Familiarity with all Front Desk and Cashiering functions.
- Handles turn-away guests. (book out)
- Open stores in case of emergencies.
- Authorize payments in case of emergencies.
Administration:
- Co-ordination and information with the all departments.
- Ensures all staff is thoroughly familiar with the Hotel’s emergency procedures and in a state of preparedness for any emergency which may accrue.
- He/she is familiar with all related company documentation and especially with the relevant Operational Standards Manual for his/her field of responsibility.
- Assumes responsibility of Duty Manager when scheduled to do so.
- Assist in Task Force Teams for new openings. (if asked)