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Sofia, Hotel Manager

Coming from a hotel background, Sofia had a great depth of knowledge around Housekeeping. She joined the business and quickly discovered that her passion lies with every aspect of running a hotel, from the first interaction with people to delivering results. She has been involved with opening and supporting some of our hotels over the years and is currently running one of the largest event-driven hotels in London, whilst managing to attend every MMA event her children compete in.

Sofia's career path

  • team-member

  • Management Development Programme

  • medium-hotel-bar

  • large-hotel-bar

  • small-hotel

  • small-hotel

  • large-hotel-bar

  • Team Member, London Farringdon

    Sept 2010 - Dec 2012

    Joining Travelodge in the 219-bedroom big bar cafe hotel gave Sofia the opportunity to understand every aspect of a busy hotel.

  • Team Member- Management Development, Southwark

    Dec 2012 - Mar 2013

    After a couple of years, Sofia moved to her now-favourite hotel, where she learnt all her managerial skills whilst on the Management Development Programme in the 202-bed hotel with a bar cafe.

  • Assistant Hotel Manager, London Kings Cross Central

    Mar 2013 - Mar 2014

    Sofia then used her knowledge in this 140-bed bar cafe hotel, which is a grade listed-building very close to the Kings Cross St Pancras station.

  • Assistant Hotel Manager, London Kings Cross Royal Scott

    Mar 2014 - Jan 2015

    Wanting to get herself even more involved, Sofia moved into our 408-bed bar cafe hotel in the centre of London, where she managed a large team as Assistant Hotel Manager, and coached them to deliver great service. This experience allowed her to build her confidence when leading her own team.

  • Hotel Manager, London Fulham

    Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

    Sofia’s first hotel management role was in our 74-bed small hotel which is located near Hammersmith Apollo. This gave Sofia the knowledge of how to effectively run a hotel on her own.

  • Hotel Manager - Secondment, London Hackney

    Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

    Sofia was then tasked to open a brand-new hotel in the heart of East London with 80 rooms, using her proven organisational skills and ensuring that every new hotel Team Member who joined the business was upskilled.

  • Hotel Manager, London Stratford

    Oct 2016 - Present

    Wanting a new challenge, Sofia moved across to a heavily events-driven hotel, perfectly located by the London Stadium with 188 rooms and a large bar cafe, where she is currently excelling at managing as well as hitting all her targets.

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Iain

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