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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Communication Skills - Languages
Willing To Travel
Personal Information
Areas Of Interest
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Sampath Kumar BM

Sampath Kumar BM

Bangalore

Summary

Detail-oriented hospitality professional with 20 years of experience in the hotel industry, specializing in guest services and front desk operations. Seeking a challenging role as a front office position where I can utilize my exceptional customer service skills, knack for problem-solving, and strong organizational abilities to enhance guest satisfaction and contribute to the overall success of the establishment. Eager to be part of a dedicated team, committed to delivering outstanding service and creating memorable experiences for guests.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Front Office Manager

Hotel The Ocean Pearl
02.2025 - Current
  • Ensure outstanding customer care at all times.
  • Maintain a friendly, cheerful, and courteous demeanor at all times.
  • Courteously and accurately answers inquiries from potential guests and accepts hotel reservations for rooms and banquets.
  • Resolve customer issues, complaints, and problems in a quick, efficient manner to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction and quality service.
  • Adhere to the company credit limit and floor limit policies.
  • Price negotiations with competitive vendors.
  • Planning for Laundry.
  • Build strong relationships and liaise with all other department's especially housekeeping, reservations etc.
  • Operates the EPBX equipment, including assisting with incoming and outgoing calls, setting wake-up calls, enabling DND (Do Not Disturb), and paging for in-house guests.
  • Cross-check all billing instructions to ensure they are correctly updated.
  • Ensuring Safety policies.
  • Controls cash transactions at the front desk and maintains complete responsibility for the personal bank, as specified by the hotel bank agreement policy.
  • Supervise the operations of the front desk to ensure an optimal level of service and hospitality is provided to the guests.
  • Perform other duties as assigned, requested, or deemed necessary by management.
  • Ensure the front office logbook and hotel logbook are always updated and acted upon.
  • Ensure safety by following guest check-in and security procedures, and reporting suspicious activity to security, the manager, or the MOD.
  • Assist all departments in servicing the guests during high-volume periods.

• Responsible for Liaising with OTA, revenue optimization, financial planning, budgeting, P&L, training & development of the team and co-ordinate with sales team to improve sales.

• Day to day yield activities and strategies shift to gain desired occupancy and ARR.

• Analysis market as per com-set and update to General Manager of the hotel.

• Focus on guest satisfaction and improve NPS score of the hotel, improve ARR, RevPAR and market penetration index.

• Responsible for follow-up of Ledger balance, corporate payment, update and OTA commission.

• Productive collaboration or tie up with the famous event management companies of the city

• Focus on guest satisfaction and improve NPS score of the hotel, improve ARR, RevPAR and market penetration index

• Take up daily departmental briefings, allocate responsibilities and plan service flow for the day and delegate & follow up accordingly

• Ensured Team Members were properly trained and provide excellent guest service

Asst Front Office Manager & Sales

Adarsh Hamilton Hotel Bangalore
03.2018 - 11.2023
  • Ensure outstanding customer care at all times.
  • Maintain a friendly, cheerful and courteous demeanor at all times.
  • Courteously and accurately answers inquiries from potential guests and accept hotel reservations.
  • Resolve customer issues, complaints, problems in a quick, efficient manner to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction and quality service.
  • Adhere to company credit limit/ floor limit policies.
  • Allocate rooms to expected arrivals after checking the guest preferences and special requests.
  • Build strong relationships and liaise with all other department's especially housekeeping, reservations etc.
  • Operates the EPBX equipment, including, assisting incoming & outgoing calls, setting wake-up calls, enabling DND (Do Not Disturb) and paging for in-house guests.
  • Cross Check all billing instructions are correctly updated.
  • Controls cash transactions at the front desk and maintains complete responsibility for personal bank as specified by hotel bank agreement policy.
  • Supervise the operations of the front desk to ensure an optimal level of service and hospitality is provided to the guests.
  • Perform other duties as assigned, requested or deemed necessary by management.
  • Ensure Front office log book and hotel log book is always updated and actioned upon.
  • Ensure safety by following guest check in and security procedures and reporting suspicious activity to security, manager, or MOD.
  • Assist all departments in servicing the guests during high volume periods.

GUEST SERVICES EXECUTIVE (CONCIERGE & FRONT OFFICE

Al Fanar Hotel & Residence, Oman
Salala
08.2016 - 12.2017

• Handling the shifts individually

• Handling the guest queries and solving the same

• Coordinating with each and every department for the smooth functioning of the department

• Arranging amenities for in house guests and arrivals and VIPs

• Dealing with Travel Desk tasks Arranging airport drop and pickup

• Up selling the hotel products

• Looking after the Lobby décor and make sure that it looks fresh

• Handling problems and conflict of the guest and solving the same

• Processing travel desk bills for accounts on a daily basis.

• Helping the guest regarding the city knowledge and important information to make their stay comfortable

• Coordinating with Hotel Drivers airport pickup & drop from the airport

• Claiming of the luggage's from airport in case of any missing of guest luggage

Escorting the guest to their rooms and providing the hotel information, ensuring guest comfort.

CONCIERGE & FRONT OFFICE

Park Rotana & Park Arjaan Hotel
Abu Dhabi
12.2013 - 07.2016

• Handling the shifts individually

• Handling the guest queries and solving the same

• Coordinating with each and every department for the smooth functioning of the department

• Arranging amenities for in house guests and arrivals and VIPs

• Dealing with Travel Desk tasks Arranging airport drop and pickup

• Up selling the hotel products

• Looking after the Lobby décor and make sure that it looks fresh

• Handling problems and conflict of the guest and solving the same

• Prospering travel desk bills for accounts on daily basis

• Helping the guest regarding the city knowledge and important information to make their stay comfortable

Coordinating with hotel drivers for airport pickup and drop-off from the airport.

• Claiming of the luggage's from airport in case of any missing of guest luggage

Escorting the guest to their rooms and providing the hotel information, ensuring guest comfort.

Guest Relation Executive

Palm Meadows Resort Hotel
Bangalore
03.2005 - 11.2013
  • Handling the shifts individually.
  • Handling the guest queries and solving the same.
  • Coordinating with each and every department for the smooth functioning of the department.
  • Arranging amenities for in house guests and arrivals and VIPs.
  • Dealing with Travel Desk tasks Arranging airport drop and pickup.
  • Up selling the hotel products.
  • Looking after the Lobby décor and make sure that it looks fresh.
  • Handling problems and conflict of the guest and solving the same.
  • Prospering travel desk bills for accounts on daily basis.
  • Helping the guest regarding the city knowledge and important information to make their stay comfortable.
  • Coordinating with Hotel Drivers airport pickup & drop from the airport.
  • Claiming of the luggage's from airport in case of any missing of guest luggage.
  • Escorting the guest to their rooms and giving the hotel information ensuring guest comfort ability.

Education

Tourism & Hospitality Management - Front Office

Indian Council For Professional Education Mission
Bangalore
05-2014

SSLC -

Kolar,Karnataka Board
Kolar,arnataka
03-2003

Skills

  • PMS (Property Management System) Opera Software (Version-501)
  • IDS (Intellect Data Systems) V 65
  • Hotel Management Champagne Software (Hotel Stores & Admin)
  • ACE Guest feedback software(Hotel Back office system)
  • Operating System : Windows 98/XP/Vista/7

Communication Skills - Languages

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Telugu
  • Tamil

Willing To Travel

Around the World

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 06/08/84
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Areas Of Interest

Hospitality

Timeline

Front Office Manager

Hotel The Ocean Pearl
02.2025 - Current

Asst Front Office Manager & Sales

Adarsh Hamilton Hotel Bangalore
03.2018 - 11.2023

GUEST SERVICES EXECUTIVE (CONCIERGE & FRONT OFFICE

Al Fanar Hotel & Residence, Oman
08.2016 - 12.2017

CONCIERGE & FRONT OFFICE

Park Rotana & Park Arjaan Hotel
12.2013 - 07.2016

Guest Relation Executive

Palm Meadows Resort Hotel
03.2005 - 11.2013

Tourism & Hospitality Management - Front Office

Indian Council For Professional Education Mission

SSLC -

Kolar,Karnataka Board
Sampath Kumar BM