Venera Shakirova
No* Jialingjiang East Road,ETDZ, Qingdao,
Shandong, China, 266555
176-****-****/86-532-****-**** ******.*********@*****.***
Career Objective
Seeking contribution as a senior level management position in an international hotel chain with emerging presence in Asia
Profile
Excellent coordinator, a result-oriented professional administrator for the past six years with proven track record of improving operation effectiveness. Strong sense of numbers, a hard working team player with analytical skills resulting in positive impact on overall bottom line. Often determined in actions, believes in getting-the-job done; strives to create an open, trustful environment and seeking convergence of company goals and employee goals through delegation. Committed to corporate prosperity and, both a worker and a manager, trained to formulate clear objectives at task and strategic levels
Professional Experience
Hilton Qingdao Golden Beach
Qingdao, China
Quality Operations Manager April 2018 – present
Preview the hotel expected arrival guest list, pick up the foreign guest arrival, pre-arrivals emails
Daily review hotel VIP arrivals and liaise with relevant departments to ensure the VIPs arrival experience including the room inspection, welcome amenities set up
Checking guests rooms for the same guests arrivals day
Cover the breakfast operations time checking restaurants team members grooming, table standards
Work at Front Office (Lobby, Reception, and Executive Lounge) for ensuring team members are in room grooming condition
Collecting the guest’s feedback and feedback to the hotel management
Checking the hotel lobby and Public Areas facilities
Familiar with hotel Emergency procedure and acts as a part of Hotel Crisis Management team
Review the Quality Assurance report and assist Direct of Operations to initialize the Hotel QA improvement Plan among the Operations Departments
Drive SALT, Medallia guest’s satisfaction score
Tangla Dongguan HNA hotel
Dongguan, China
Quality Operations Manager 2015 – March 2018
Reporting to General Manager, oversees and improve quality of service, leads hotel quality team in meeting international standards
Reinforce and maintain brand identity through customer-oriented hotel activities and social networking
Implement “Mystery Shoppers” program and respond to feedbacks
Organize, coordinate, prioritize and set targets for cross-departmental quality meetings
Sofitel Royal Lagoon
Dongguan,China
Duty Manager 6/2014-5/2015
Led department to meet guests’ satisfaction rate from 73% to 92%
Trained and monitored customer satisfaction rate at front office
Hands-on working with front office staff, designing an SOP for guest check-in
Maintained constant awareness to “delight” customers across various hotel functions
Kande International Hotel
Dongguan,China
Guest Relations Officer 5/2013- 5/2014
Improved market share of foreign and VIP guests
Assisted Front Office staff with English trainings and guest-receiving procedures in an international environment
Achieved customer satisfaction rate of 88% from 65%
Holiday Inn hotel
Chelyabinsk, Russia
English and French interpreter 2/2012-01/2013
Organized tours for international guests
Handled guests’ complaints
Coordinated daily operations management within departments
George's restaurant of Galilee,
Rhode Island, the USA
Intern,crew member 5/2010-09/2010
Practiced organizing festivities and events for guests in a fast pace environment
Achieved customer satisfaction rate of 94% from 70%
Reinforced the strategy of attracting new customers in area
Career Highlights
Became the Ambassador of HNA Hospitality Group company of hotels, May 2017
English teacher in Tangla Dongguan Hotel from 2014 until now
Volunteer Run Organizer for Tangla Dongguan in May, 2017
Spearheaded new online system “Brand Wisdom” for Tangla Dongguan, September 2016
Increased 10% revenue for Tangla Dongguan
Areas of Expertise
Hotel Management Marketing
Leadership Management Innovation
International Communication Quality Control
Volunteer work
HNA Company Volunteer Run, May 2017. Marathon 8 km in Purpose of spreading Healthy Way of style
Reception of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Friedman, a renowned professor in the field of Culture Affairs, organizing Gala dinner speech with local community of volunteers, May 2017
Education & Training
Master of Arts in Linguistics and Communications
South Ural State University, Russia
English, Fluent
Russian, Fluent
French, Intermediate
Chinese, intermediate
Other Information
Traveling, swimming, fashion design and styling, Reading
Reference available upon request