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Radisson Hotel Group

Runs hotel brands for travelers and property owners

Team Leader

Full-TimeUpdated
No salary listed
Mid
Kigali, Rwanda
In Person
Food Service & HospitalityFood & Beverage Operations Management

About the job

Requirements
  • The employee must be able to understand and work within the country’s culture.
  • The role holder must maintain high standards of personal appearance and grooming, including compliance with the dress code.
Responsibilities
  • Manage assigned event operations, including banquets, conferences, catering, and food and beverage services.
  • Ensure sufficient operating guest supplies, beverage supplies, and operating equipment for assigned events.
  • Compile information and complete and submit accurate, timely reports to authorized management or Accounting, including weekly or monthly stock inventory and staff attendance reports.
  • Work closely with the Event Planning Manager or Coordinator, Chef, and other departments to execute and deliver assigned events, maximize revenue and meeting-space utilization, and achieve or exceed budgeted departmental revenue.
  • Maintain sanitation and cleanliness in work areas, banquet rooms, and storage areas.
  • Ensure proper use and good working order of banquet and catering equipment and fixtures during the assigned shift.
  • Implement departmental service standards and operating procedures consistently.
  • Ensure sufficient staffing for assigned functions.
  • Perform other duties assigned by the immediate superior that support guest satisfaction and organizational profit.
  • Promote policies, procedures, and processes to increase revenue, manage expenses, monitor departmental financial matters, and support business-unit key performance indicators and revenue and expenditure budgets.
  • Serve as the primary client contact on assigned event and function days, attending pre- and post-event meetings.
  • Meet with group event hosts before functions, introduce the team, and confirm arrangements; read and analyze Event Orders to gather guest information and determine setup, guest needs, buffets, and action stations.
  • Communicate client requirements accurately and promptly to internal departments to ensure superior guest service.
  • Assign staff members specific side duties for the following day and ensure they understand and complete them.
  • Check that service staff complete opening and closing tasks at the beginning and end of each shift.
  • Conduct pre-event briefings and post-event debriefings in the Venue Manager’s absence.
  • Take daily inventories of food and guest supplies to ensure availability.
  • Prepare and submit daily breakage and loss reports for operating equipment at the end of functions.
  • Attend daily or weekly departmental meetings and other meetings required by the position.
  • Conduct monthly inventories of operating equipment in coordination with the Chief Steward.
  • Record guest comments, complaints, accidents, unusual events, and other matters affecting the following shift in the logbook at shift end.
  • Record actual sales and cover counts for assigned events at the end of each shift.
  • Communicate operationally important information promptly to the immediate superior and subordinates.
  • Participate in HACCP procedures under KCC’s Food Safety Management System; correctly use the KRA, follow cleaning rotations and closing procedures, maintain preventive maintenance plans, and ensure quality-control and hygiene measures are achieved.
  • Include guest satisfaction in staff and operations meetings and identify ways to improve results.
  • Review guest feedback with the supervisors’ team, ensure corrective action is taken, and handle guest problems and complaints.
  • Remain visible and regularly engage with clients to obtain feedback on product quality, service levels, and overall satisfaction.
  • Create an atmosphere in function rooms and food and beverage areas that meets or exceeds guest expectations.
  • Facilitate creative solutions to obstacles and ensure their implementation to improve guest satisfaction results.
  • Ensure employees are treated fairly and equitably.
  • Ensure regular ongoing communication in Operations, including pre-shift briefings and staff meetings.
  • Foster employee commitment to excellent service, participate in daily stand-up meetings, and model desired service behaviors with guests and employees.
  • Administer property policies fairly and consistently, complete disciplinary procedures and documentation in accordance with Standard and Local Operating Procedures, and support the Peer Review Process.
  • Recommend disciplinary action or commendations for employees to the Venue Manager.
  • Discipline service staff assigned to the shift in accordance with company policies and procedures.
  • Oversee meeting and event operations, including conferencing, food and beverage activity, guest service, and guest relations; the position may hold budgetary responsibility.

About the company

Radisson Hotel Group connects travelers with hotels across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, while helping property owners develop, brand and run lodging businesses. Its portfolio spans luxury and lifestyle hotels, upscale resorts and properties converted from independent hotels into branded destinations. Guests book through the group's channels and use its loyalty program, while owners partner through managed, franchised, leased or hybrid agreements. Its commercial systems support property management and hotel revenue optimization through shared technology and distribution. Its hospitality roots trace to Copenhagen's first SAS hotel in 1960, and the group is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

N/A

Founded

1960

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What believers are saying

  • Owners keep adding properties: RHG signed and opened 160 hotels with 22,000-plus rooms in January-June 2026.
  • Development includes internal moves: RHG's April 2026 report records 8.5 million learning hours and 40% internal hiring for 2025.
  • India has a defined expansion target: July 2026's Vision 2030 set 500 hotels, versus 142 operating across 86 cities.

What critics are saying

  • Contract security varies: RHG's available 2025 leased/managed-hotel data show 34% temporary no-fixed-hours employment and 18% outsourced workers.
  • Hiring controls have uneven coverage: 2025 leased/managed-hotel data show under-half toolkit uptake; full audits covered 56 of 395 hotels.
  • Compliance work extends beyond office hours: RHG's Bucharest role requires shifts, weekends and unannounced night audits.

What makes Radisson Hotel Group unique

  • A larger hotel group controls RHG: Jin Jiang holds a majority stake.
  • Owners often return with another property: about 65% of RHG's owners have more than one hotel with the group.
  • The brand network spans many markets: RHG's portfolio covers more than 100 countries.

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