Graduate Programme
About the job
Applications for 2023 are now open
Firmdale Hotels are looking for exceptional people to join its award winning Graduate Management Programme.
The programme is designed to develop candidates into management positions within our international hotel group. This two year experience allows you to work in every department within our boutique hotels and over the course of this personalised programme, you will be given hands on experience within a variety of operational placements, helping you grow in to a future Firmdale leader.
Previous Graduates are now our Front Office Managers, Restaurant Managers, Operations Managers, Deputy General Managers and Directors. Your future within Firmdale could take many exciting directions!
THE PROGRAMME
- 8 months in Rooms Division
- (Housekeeping / Concierge / Nights / Reception / Reservations)
- 8 months in Food and Beverage
- (Room Service / Kitchen / Events / Restaurant / Bar)
- 8 months in Head Office
- ( Sales & Marketing/Purchasing/Finance/Revenue/Events Management/Commercial/ HR)
ABOUT YOU
- As a future leader, you are enthusiastic and willing to develop within all aspects of our business from changing bed linen to reviewing budget forecasts
- A genuine passion for customer service
- Attention to detail
- You must be eligible to work in the UK
BENEFITS INCLUDE
- A £28,500 salary and a pension
- Perkbox - a team member platform which offers a variety of discounts and our reward and recognition programme
- Wage Stream - an employee app to stream your wages before payday
- Flexibility and no split-shifts
- Uniform and meals
- Social events and team activities
- Award winning training opportunities
- Career development
- Wellbeing activities and support
- Firmdale Experience and long service vouchers including Afternoon Tea, dinner for two, Firmdale Film Club and an overnight stay
In addition to this you will benefit from world class training throughout the course of the programme.
Assessment days will take place in April & May.
- £28500.00 per annum
- Department: Other
About you
- Language required: English.
The company
Firmdale Hotels strives for the highest level of guest satisfaction and employees are part of an award winning team that takes service to a superior level. Firmdale is a market leader and rapidly expanding company that can offer rewarding career opportunities. The policy is to promote from within. Each employee is valued and considered key to the company's future success.
There is a dedicated company trainer with emphasis upon IT and food & beverage and a wide spectrum of training opportunities ranging from soft management to detailed technical skills such as Train the Trainer, Leadership and Learning Academies.
Firmdale is a company our employees take pride in working for. It is individual, stylish, modern and elegant. It has won the following awards in recognition of its commitment to investing in its people:
"Hotels should be living things not stuffy institutions" maintain Tim and Kit Kemp, owners of Firmdale Hotels. There are eight boutique hotels in London and one in New York. The high standards of excellence and unique townhouse style of decoration have over the years added up to a winning combination. Kit Kemp has designed the interiors of each hotel in her unique personal way which reflects a fresh, modern English style. She was named the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year in 2008 and has gone onto win many more accolades. Firmdale Hotels has received the Queens Award for Enterprise in 2000, 2006 and 2009, a recognition of its outstanding achievement to international trade. A further hotel is currently planned for New York.
