Spa Director

Description

Position Summary:

Coordinates and assists in supervising all areas in the spa. Spa Director is responsible for ensuring guest service is exceeding expectation throughout the spa. Performs any other reasonably related duties to ensure optimum guest and/or staff satisfaction. Is an active part of motivating and developing the Spa Team. Supports new innovative programs and trainings for the spa.

They will be working closely with different members of our team, so they will need to be quick on your feet and have an engaging attitude. If making meaningful connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day is what you do, and you love it, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow and learn at a beautiful luxury property!

Your role:

  • Full operational responsibility for the daily operations of the Spa.
  • Ensure compliance with all state and federal safety regulations as it pertains to the equipment and materials used in the Spa and Fitness Center.
  • Creates a team of service providers to meet all aspects of professionalism and service demands, ensuring that the staff is fully knowledgeable on the use and benefits of services, products, programs, and activities by conducting regularly scheduled staff meetings and training workshops.
  • Interview, select and retain excellent staff to create a leading service and treatment presentation.
  • Direct, train and maintain high level of job satisfaction/morale/teamwork among associates in respective areas of responsibility.
  • Recommends short and long-term goals for department regarding training and structure.
  • Promotes and champions resort culture and guiding principles, leads this process on an ongoing basis.
  • Implement strategic and tactical plans to achieve departmental financial budgeting goals and expectations.
  • Develops and recommends department products, programs, services, policies, and procedures.
  • Consistently deliver accurate forecasting projections for areas of responsibility and implement effective adjustments as required in staffing and other cost drivers to ensure margin integrity. Inventory control and retail knowledge.
  • Coordinates and oversees training opportunities regarding new associates on both services and retail product lines.
  • Assist in ensuring cleanliness of public spa areas to include spa retail, treatment rooms, locker rooms, storage areas, product storage and fitness center.
  • Monitors and maintains the Wellness Center's physical infrastructure, including the fitness room equipment/area.
  • Develops and maintains accurate facility maintenance procedures and checklists through routine preventative maintenance and repair.
  • Responsible for coordination and execution of spa packages.
  • Assists in conducting monthly trend statistics on treatments and peak operating times.
  • Consistently research and recommend change in retail and professional products, keeping abreast of market and industry trends/changes.
  • Liaises with the Health Inspector to ensure government standards are met.
  • Designs, implements, and evaluates health education, curriculum, seminars workshops, courses, and self-help programs for both guest and staff use.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Someone with a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in Spa operations or related field.
  • Someone with working knowledge of computer programs including Word, Excel and Microsoft Outlook. Knowledge of POS/Booking Software, preferably ‘Book for Time’ Software knowledge.
  • Someone with excellent Interpersonal, communication and listening skills – with both external and internal customers.
  • Someone with retail purchasing and inventory knowledge.
  • Someone with a strong attention to detail and high standards of quality and cleanliness.
  • Someone with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to handle pressure situations with ease.
  • Someone who can frequently bend, push/pull, and lifting/carrying of up to 30 lbs. and occasional lifting/carrying of up to 50 lbs.
  • Someone with a flexible schedule that allows them to work weekends and holidays.

Other: The hotel functions seven (7) days a week and twenty-four (24) hours per day. All employees, both management and hourly, must realize this fact and be aware that at times it may be necessary to move employees from their accustomed shift as business demands.

We are a drug-free work place; criminal background required. We participate in Everify. EOE/M/F/D/V

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

The Sanderling

Resort with 149 Rooms

Sanderling Resort

Oceanfront luxury. Toes in the sand. Romance. Natural Beauty. Beach, pools, restaurants and spa. Tennis, golf and any outdoor activity that you can imagine. All this and more can be found at the newly renovated Four-Diamond Sanderling Resort. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Duck, North Carolina, Sanderling is uniquely positioned to provide a truly life-altering Outer Banks vacation experience.

Award Winning Resort Opportunities

Situated between the shores of the majestic Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound in Duck, NC, Sanderling Resort, the only Forbes Four Star and AAA Four Diamond resort in the Outer Banks is the perfect resort for employment opportunities. Within walking distance from the sand and surf of the beach as well as the tranquil waters of the sound, Sanderling Resort has everything you could want from working in an exceptional resort that provides world-class services and amenities in one-of-a-kind coastal destination.

WHO WE ARE

In an atmosphere of Refined, Southern Coastal Elegance, our staff is attentive to guest needs and makes them feel welcome, comfortable, important and relaxed. As a team, our purpose is to ensure that our guests have a memorable experience by delivering quality service to exceed their expectations. Each staff member is a critical part of the sequence of service that defines the Sanderling Brand. Sanderling is comprised of ten distinct and interrelated experiences. Each of the experiences has a customized set of Performance Standards and each area of the Resort embraces our Sanderling Service Standards, standards that are emblematic of understated, authentic elegance --- where under-promising and over-delivering --- leaves lasting memories and imparts an overall feeling of a high-quality, integrated resort operation.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

A key component of the Sanderling operational philosophy, delivering on our brand promise, is to ensure that many of our Associates are cross-trained and are able to perform a similar job function in a number of our different experiences. This operating philosophy is one of the reasons we use the title of "Guest Service Agent" for restaurant greeters, spa receptionists, retail staff, and front office team members. When we promote, market, and communicate the many experiences at Sanderling we call it Coastal Life. Our guests have many opportunities to define their own Coastal Life at Sanderling. It is our job to enable it. Every member of Sanderling staff represents the Sanderling Brand.

WHAT WE OFFER

Sanderling Resort is equally committed to caring for our associates as well as we do our guests. We offer competitive pay and benefits and numerous training experiences. In addition to full-time, part-time, and seasonal employment, we offer ongoing advancement and internal growth opportunities in a number of areas.

WHERE WE ARE

Sanderling Resort is located approximately 75 miles southeast of Norfolk, Virginia and 215 miles northeast of Raleigh, North Carolina.

If you are looking for the perfect opportunity to pursue your hospitality career year around or work seasonally, Sanderling is a truly unique destination. Charming and romantic, diverse and eclectic, authentic and unpretentious, alive and vibrant. Indeed, we have a quintessential Carolina beach and pools, beach bars, cozy bars, spa, restaurants and other resort amenities, but Sanderling is more. It is an experience.

We welcome team members who are passionate about delivering timeless experiences that create memories for our guests that last forever. We appreciate your interest in the Sanderling experience and in joining our team of passionate and dedicated hospitality professionals.

Spa Director

Description

Position Summary:

Coordinates and assists in supervising all areas in the spa. Spa Director is responsible for ensuring guest service is exceeding expectation throughout the spa. Performs any other reasonably related duties to ensure optimum guest and/or staff satisfaction. Is an active part of motivating and developing the Spa Team. Supports new innovative programs and trainings for the spa.

They will be working closely with different members of our team, so they will need to be quick on your feet and have an engaging attitude. If making meaningful connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day is what you do, and you love it, we want you! This is a tremendous opportunity for a driven person to grow and learn at a beautiful luxury property!

Your role:

  • Full operational responsibility for the daily operations of the Spa.
  • Ensure compliance with all state and federal safety regulations as it pertains to the equipment and materials used in the Spa and Fitness Center.
  • Creates a team of service providers to meet all aspects of professionalism and service demands, ensuring that the staff is fully knowledgeable on the use and benefits of services, products, programs, and activities by conducting regularly scheduled staff meetings and training workshops.
  • Interview, select and retain excellent staff to create a leading service and treatment presentation.
  • Direct, train and maintain high level of job satisfaction/morale/teamwork among associates in respective areas of responsibility.
  • Recommends short and long-term goals for department regarding training and structure.
  • Promotes and champions resort culture and guiding principles, leads this process on an ongoing basis.
  • Implement strategic and tactical plans to achieve departmental financial budgeting goals and expectations.
  • Develops and recommends department products, programs, services, policies, and procedures.
  • Consistently deliver accurate forecasting projections for areas of responsibility and implement effective adjustments as required in staffing and other cost drivers to ensure margin integrity. Inventory control and retail knowledge.
  • Coordinates and oversees training opportunities regarding new associates on both services and retail product lines.
  • Assist in ensuring cleanliness of public spa areas to include spa retail, treatment rooms, locker rooms, storage areas, product storage and fitness center.
  • Monitors and maintains the Wellness Center's physical infrastructure, including the fitness room equipment/area.
  • Develops and maintains accurate facility maintenance procedures and checklists through routine preventative maintenance and repair.
  • Responsible for coordination and execution of spa packages.
  • Assists in conducting monthly trend statistics on treatments and peak operating times.
  • Consistently research and recommend change in retail and professional products, keeping abreast of market and industry trends/changes.
  • Liaises with the Health Inspector to ensure government standards are met.
  • Designs, implements, and evaluates health education, curriculum, seminars workshops, courses, and self-help programs for both guest and staff use.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Someone with a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in Spa operations or related field.
  • Someone with working knowledge of computer programs including Word, Excel and Microsoft Outlook. Knowledge of POS/Booking Software, preferably ‘Book for Time’ Software knowledge.
  • Someone with excellent Interpersonal, communication and listening skills – with both external and internal customers.
  • Someone with retail purchasing and inventory knowledge.
  • Someone with a strong attention to detail and high standards of quality and cleanliness.
  • Someone with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to handle pressure situations with ease.
  • Someone who can frequently bend, push/pull, and lifting/carrying of up to 30 lbs. and occasional lifting/carrying of up to 50 lbs.
  • Someone with a flexible schedule that allows them to work weekends and holidays.

Other: The hotel functions seven (7) days a week and twenty-four (24) hours per day. All employees, both management and hourly, must realize this fact and be aware that at times it may be necessary to move employees from their accustomed shift as business demands.

We are a drug-free work place; criminal background required. We participate in Everify. EOE/M/F/D/V

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

The Sanderling

Resort with 149 Rooms

Sanderling Resort

Oceanfront luxury. Toes in the sand. Romance. Natural Beauty. Beach, pools, restaurants and spa. Tennis, golf and any outdoor activity that you can imagine. All this and more can be found at the newly renovated Four-Diamond Sanderling Resort. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Duck, North Carolina, Sanderling is uniquely positioned to provide a truly life-altering Outer Banks vacation experience.

Award Winning Resort Opportunities

Situated between the shores of the majestic Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound in Duck, NC, Sanderling Resort, the only Forbes Four Star and AAA Four Diamond resort in the Outer Banks is the perfect resort for employment opportunities. Within walking distance from the sand and surf of the beach as well as the tranquil waters of the sound, Sanderling Resort has everything you could want from working in an exceptional resort that provides world-class services and amenities in one-of-a-kind coastal destination.

WHO WE ARE

In an atmosphere of Refined, Southern Coastal Elegance, our staff is attentive to guest needs and makes them feel welcome, comfortable, important and relaxed. As a team, our purpose is to ensure that our guests have a memorable experience by delivering quality service to exceed their expectations. Each staff member is a critical part of the sequence of service that defines the Sanderling Brand. Sanderling is comprised of ten distinct and interrelated experiences. Each of the experiences has a customized set of Performance Standards and each area of the Resort embraces our Sanderling Service Standards, standards that are emblematic of understated, authentic elegance --- where under-promising and over-delivering --- leaves lasting memories and imparts an overall feeling of a high-quality, integrated resort operation.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

A key component of the Sanderling operational philosophy, delivering on our brand promise, is to ensure that many of our Associates are cross-trained and are able to perform a similar job function in a number of our different experiences. This operating philosophy is one of the reasons we use the title of "Guest Service Agent" for restaurant greeters, spa receptionists, retail staff, and front office team members. When we promote, market, and communicate the many experiences at Sanderling we call it Coastal Life. Our guests have many opportunities to define their own Coastal Life at Sanderling. It is our job to enable it. Every member of Sanderling staff represents the Sanderling Brand.

WHAT WE OFFER

Sanderling Resort is equally committed to caring for our associates as well as we do our guests. We offer competitive pay and benefits and numerous training experiences. In addition to full-time, part-time, and seasonal employment, we offer ongoing advancement and internal growth opportunities in a number of areas.

WHERE WE ARE

Sanderling Resort is located approximately 75 miles southeast of Norfolk, Virginia and 215 miles northeast of Raleigh, North Carolina.

If you are looking for the perfect opportunity to pursue your hospitality career year around or work seasonally, Sanderling is a truly unique destination. Charming and romantic, diverse and eclectic, authentic and unpretentious, alive and vibrant. Indeed, we have a quintessential Carolina beach and pools, beach bars, cozy bars, spa, restaurants and other resort amenities, but Sanderling is more. It is an experience.

We welcome team members who are passionate about delivering timeless experiences that create memories for our guests that last forever. We appreciate your interest in the Sanderling experience and in joining our team of passionate and dedicated hospitality professionals.