Careers
Are you our next Restaurant & Banquet Manager?
The Settha Palace in Vientiane, Laos, is a 29-Room French Colonial
Luxury Boutique Hotel catering to high end tourists, bankers, diplomats and
businessmen, requiring warm and personalized service.
For our refined and personalized F&B Operation, we are now
welcoming applicants for the position of Restaurant & Banquet
Manager for a small and elegant a la carte restaurant, a small bar lounge, a side
walk cafe, pool side dining, room service and a small function room for 150 pax theatre style.
But will you fit this job like a Billie Jean glove? Read on
to find out...
Day-to-day, you'll be...
- Building and maintaining high-quality relationships with
hotel guests & corporate clients staying with us and using our
meeting facilities
- Training up your staff to deliver a high standard of
friendly and personalized service to guests
- Managing daily F&B operations of the restaurant,
bar and banqueting
- Soliciting guest feedback
- Using that feedback to help us improve our F&B
operation
- Improving the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for your
areas of responsibility
We care:
...about what you've achieved. Where you want to go in your career.
What you've learned from your mistakes. How well you intuitively
understand our tone and mission at the Settha Palace Hotel. Your level
of empathy, aptitude for leadership and ability to train your team,
some of whom will know nothing about F&B service.
We care that you would genuinely care - about your team, our guests
& corporate clients, and specifically, about giving all our
guests at the Settha Palace a memorable experience.
We care that you have the ability to work without constant supervision,
and cooperate and communicate very well with other departments - verbally, and in writing.
We care that you're someone people love to work together with.
This opportunity is for you if:
- You love the business of Fine Dining within the context of
a small boutique hotel.
- You have a strong and adventurous disposition.
- You love exploring new cultures.
- You love communicating with people, even if they have
trouble understanding you.
- You truly love the sense of achievement in training up your team and making things happen with them.
- You are flexible and can change focus quickly.
- You want the challenge of elevating the level of
service at our hotel beyond what we've ever done before.
- You can start your new job here in Laos during the first
week in December 2022.
But the opportunity is NOT for you if:
- You have to bring your family with you.
- You can't adapt easily and build a routine, motivate
yourself and work independently.
This role requires:
- A "make it happen" attitude: if you don't know it, learn
it. If you don't understand, ask. If something is not working, find out
why. Excuses or non-constructive complaints won't lead you or us to any
kind of success.
- Previous experience as a Restaurant Manager, Maitre D or
Assistant Restaurant Manager
- Banqueting experience is highly desirable
- Previous experience living/working outside your home
country, preferably in Asia.
You'll get:
- A core role with a unique and leading boutique hotel in
Laos.
- The opportunity to serve highly sophisticated and well
travelled hotel guests from all over the world.
- To work with a wonderful multi-national management team,
led by a very well rounded and dynamic General Manager.
- An environment where you're given opportunity to grow.
- Economy air ticket, tax free salary, suitable on site
accommodation, laundry, duty meals, medical insurance and compensation
in line with the size of our small operation.
The Settha Palace is managed by Belmont International Hotels, which
manages deluxe hotels in Malaysia, Indonesia and Laos.
Candidates are invited to send in their CV with photo to:
Belmont International Hotels
Email: hrm-fnb@belmontasia.com
Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Do not miss out on this
rewarding opportunity!
Are you our next Sales Manager?
The Settha Palace in Vientiane, Laos, is a 29-Room French Colonial
Luxury Boutique Hotel catering to high end tourists, bankers, diplomats and
businessmen, requiring warm and personalized service.
For our refined corporate functions & meetings operation with a function room for 150 pax theatre style, we are now welcoming applicants for the position of Sales Manager.
But will you fit this job like a Billie Jean glove? Read on to find out...
Day-to-day, you'll be...
- Building and maintaining high-quality relationships with companies who need our meeting facilities and hotel room accommodations
- Meeting directly with logistics staff at these companies to find out what their needs are in the coming months and identifying what the hotel can do for them
- Training up junior staff in the art of hotel sales and marketing
- Soliciting corporate guest feedback
- Using that feedback to help us improve our hotel services & operations
- Improving the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for sales & marketing
We care:
...about what you've achieved. Where you want to go in your career.
What you've learned from your mistakes. How well you intuitively
understand our tone and mission at the Settha Palace Hotel. Your level
of empathy, aptitude for leadership and ability to train your team.
We care that you would genuinely care - about your team, our guests
& corporate clients, and specifically, about giving all our
guests at the Settha Palace a memorable experience.
We care that you have the ability to work without constant supervision,
and cooperate and communicate very well with other departments - verbally, and in writing.
We care that you're someone people love to work together with.
This opportunity is for you if:
- You really love the business of hotel sales & marketing within the context of a small boutique hotel.
- You have a strong and adventurous disposition.
- You’re a master at making sales calls and asking for the sale.
- You truly love the sense of achievement in winning new business.
- You are flexible and can change focus quickly.
- You want the challenge of increasing our rooms business and meetings business.
- You can start your new job here in Vientiane, Laos as soon as possible.
But the opportunity is NOT for you if:
- You have to bring your family with you.
- You can't adapt easily and build a routine, motivate yourself and work independently.
This role requires:
- A "make it happen" attitude: if you don't know it, learn
it. If you don't understand, ask. If something is not working, find out
why. Excuses or non-constructive complaints won't lead you or us to any
kind of success.
- Previous experience as a hotel Sales Executive in 4 or 5 star hotels
- Previous experience living/working outside your home country, preferably in Asia.
You'll get:
- A core role with a unique and leading boutique hotel in Laos.
- The opportunity to serve highly sophisticated and well travelled hotel guests from all over the world.
- To work with a wonderful multi-national management team, led by a dynamic General Manager with a strong hospitality background.
- An environment where you're given opportunity to grow.
- Economy air ticket, tax free salary, suitable on site
accommodation, laundry, duty meals, medical insurance and compensation
in line with the size of our small operation.
The Settha Palace is managed by Belmont International Hotels, which
manages deluxe hotels in Malaysia, Indonesia and Laos.
Candidates are invited to send in their CV with photo to:
Belmont International Hotels
Email: hrmlaos@belmontasia.com
Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Do not miss out on this
rewarding opportunity!
Are you our next Chef de Cuisine/ Head Chef?
The luxurious Settha Palace Hotel is a 29-room colonial boutique property built in the 1930s in Vientiane, Laos. The hotel is managed by Belmont International Hotels and caters to high end tourists, bankers, diplomats and businessmen, requiring warm and personalized service. For our refined F&B Operation that includes an elegant gourmet a la carte restaurant and 150 seat banquet room, we are now welcoming applicants for the position of Chef de Cuisine/ Head Chef (French/Mediterranean/Western Cuisine).
You must be able to start work in December 2022
This challenging full time hands-on position is for you if you:
- have experience in French/Mediterranean/Western Cuisine.
- are an accomplished chef who loves to cook, with a passion for creating new dishes, a strong personal style, and desire the freedom in the creation of the menu.
- gain satisfaction from meeting & talking with the guests in the restaurant.
- have advanced culinary skills, including food production, creation of new dishes, and presentation skills.
- have experience in a la carte and banquet cookery as well as cocktail style finger food.
- have a minimum of 3 years experience supervising in a medium volume, scratch-cooking kitchen.
- have strong organization and communication skills because you have to coordinate and work with other departments in the hotel.
- are willing to work with a young team who will need hands on training from you.
- have experience with costing, quality control, menu planning, and budgeting
But the opportunity is NOT for you if:
- You have to bring your family with you.
- You can't adapt easily to foreign cultures.
Position reports to the General Manager.
We welcome all nationalities to apply. You should be available to start the new assignment as soon as possible.
For a single status candidate, we offer economy air ticket, tax free salary, suitable on site accommodation, laundry, and medical insurance in line with the size of our small operation.
The Settha Palace is managed by Belmont International Hotels, which manages deluxe hotels in Malaysia, Indonesia and Laos.
If you think you'd be a good fit, you'll need to email your cover letter, recent photo, resume and answers to the questions below:
Q1: What is the first hot starter dish on page 1 of our French Menu?
Q2: If you had to cook a 3 course meal for a group of 5 ambassadors from different countries, which starter, main course and dessert would you recommend and why?
Belmont International Hotels
Email: hrm-fnb@belmontasia.com
Hotel web site: www.setthapalace.com
Only short listed applicants will receive a reply. Do not miss out on this rewarding opportunity!