Guest Services Manager
Laguna Beach, CAFull-time$72–82K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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The Guest Services Manager assists the Director of Guest Services with day-to-day guest reception and guest services operations, financial management, and strategic leadership. The role supports department operations, guest arrival and departure experiences, budgeting, training, recruiting, and associate engagement. It requires at least four years of customer service experience and two to three years of hotel supervisory experience; a bachelor’s degree and luxury hotel experience are preferred.
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USA - CA - Laguna Beach
Full time
R44966
Live Your Passion. Add Your Magic.
At Montage International, we are doing something different, something exciting and it takes passionate people to bring our vision to life. We have built a culture that leads with the important notion we live by every day; do what you love. If this resonates with you, we look forward to receiving your application.
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Guest Services Manager
SUMMARY
The Guest Services Manager is responsible for assisting the Director of Guest Services in managing the day-to-day operations for guest reception and guest services, including profitable financial management and proactive strategic leadership. This role will contribute to the organization as an active business partner that is responsible for supporting the company's goals, objectives, vision, mission, and values.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Major areas of responsibility/ management include, but are not limited to:
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Lead by example; support the department operation and provide direct service to guests as needed.
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Oversee the arrival and departure experience, ensuring guests expectations are exceeded at all times.
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Assist in creating and implementing profit and flow-through enhancing strategies and programs.
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Review daily financial and labor reports; providing suggestions for adjusting the operation as needed to achieve annual budget and forecasts.
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Assist in creating, implementing and executing department trainings, recruiting and innovative pre-shifts.
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Assist in managing associate engagement, scheduling, payroll, counseling and quarterly department meetings.
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Support the hotel's life-safety systems and be prepared at all times for emergency situations.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Minimum of four (4) years’ experience in customer service
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Two (2) to three (3) years of hotel supervisory experience
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Bachelor’s Degree Preferred
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Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Opera and Outlook; daily use of nearly all programs will occur
PREFERRED
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Luxury hotel experience strongly preferred
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Knowledge and experience in using Birchstreet, Ontrac and Opera Cloud.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Position requires walking and giving direction most of the working day. Must be able to stand and walk for 8 hours a day. Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity. Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs. on a regular and continuing basis. Must be able to push and pull carts and equipment weighing up to 250 lbs. occasionally.
The pay scale for Guest Services Manager is $72,000 to $82,000.
The pay scale is the base salary or hourly wage range, exclusive of incentive pay such as commissions, piece rates, gratuities, and the like, that Montage reasonably expects to pay for the position.
In the United States we are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
At Montage Hotels & Resorts and Pendry Hotels, we’re committed to delivering extraordinary, personalized and authentic experiences. How we get there is by empowering our associates to think creatively. Grow their talents. Encourage them to have fun. And allow them to follow their passion in creating moments guests will long remember. At Montage and Pendry, opportunities for career growth are bountiful, and training programs are open to those seeking advancement. We encourage all of our associates to continuously learn and grow. Working at Montage and Pendry is more than a job; it’s a way of life.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,327 open Guest Services jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$72–82K/yr
- California median$83–102K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$71–80K/yr98 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $77K, is 16% below the California median midpoint ($92K) — in the lowest quarter of Guest Services salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 296 open Guest Services jobs in California and 3,327 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- McDonald's89 open
- Thorntons LLC45 open
- Marriott21 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Guest Services postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 407 postings).
- Education
- 6 of the 3,327 open Guest Services jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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