General Manager at Swiss International D`Palms
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Career Objectives
My career objectives and vision is to provide leadership to a luxury hospitality company that is fueled by passion, driven by excellence, emphasized by respect, integrity, teamwork and empowerment.
I aspire to achieve this vision with enthusiasm which result driven, through engaging service and a strive for success.
I offer over twenty years of experience in various management positions for luxury and upscale hotel companies, including Celebrity Cruise Line together with an Master of Hotel Administration.
Core strengths of mine include excellent leadership, coaching and communication skills, with loyalty and trustworthiness being my core ethical values.
Core Competencies
My core professional expertise is underlined by more than 22 years of effective hospitality management experience and my performance –driven entreprenuerial spirit.
My very strong Food and Beverage operations knowledge and experience in leading business operations, helps me to successfully develop and lead teams to achieve first-‐ class hotel operations that support strategic growth of a company.
By applying management by objectives, I achieve the implementation of departmental strategies that maximize revenues, including effective cost management which leads to high profits.
The successful integration and motivation of the team members is at the heart of a successful operation for me, in ordert to achieve customer loyalty and efficiently multitask in a fast-‐paced and challenging environment.
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General Manager at Swiss International D`Palms Lagos Airport
Aug 2014Increases management's effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining managers; communicating values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; developing incentives; developing a climate for offering information and opinions; providing educational opportunities. Develops strategic plan by studying technological and financial opportunities; presenting assumptions; recommending objectives. Accomplishes subsidiary objectives by establishing plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course corrections. Coordinates efforts by establishing procurement, production, marketing, field, and technical services policies and practices; coordinating actions with corporate staff. Builds company image by collaborating with customers, government, community organizations, and employees; enforcing ethical business practices. Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
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February 2025
