About this role
Customer Relations Officer
We are Uleval Technology-an award-winning company building tailor-made web applications, web tools, and premium websites aligned with business needs, customer’s problems, your market, and essentially-your budget.
Customer Relations Officer
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND , OND
- Experience
- Location Lagos
- City Ikeja
- Job Field Customer Care, Success and Service
Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced, mature, polished and customer-focused Customer Relations Officer to manage guest interactions and support an exceptional customer experience within a hospitality and entertainment environment.
- The successful candidate must have prior experience in the hospitality sector and should demonstrate strong communication, emotional intelligence, complaint-handling ability and professional judgement.
- This is a highly customer-facing position that requires confidence, composure, excellent grooming and the ability to represent the organization professionally across physical and digital customer touchpoints.
Role Objective:
- The Customer Relations Officer is responsible for protecting and improving the overall guest experience.
- The position goes beyond answering enquiries.
- The successful candidate must build customer relationships, resolve issues professionally, protect the organization's reputation, improve guest satisfaction and contribute to repeat patronage, positive reviews and customer loyalty.
Key Responsibilities
- Welcome and attend to guests professionally and courteously.
- Handle customer enquiries through phone calls, WhatsApp, email, social media and physical interactions.
- Provide accurate information about services, facilities, reservations, pricing, promotions and customer requests.
- Manage guest complaints and service-recovery situations professionally.
- Follow up on unresolved complaints until satisfactory closure.
- Escalate serious or sensitive customer issues to the appropriate manager.
- Liaise with Front Office, Housekeeping, Restaurant, Entertainment, Accounts, Security and other departments to resolve guest concerns.
- Maintain accurate records of enquiries, complaints, follow-ups and resolutions.
- Support reservations, booking enquiries and customer confirmations.
- Follow up with guests after complaints or important service interactions.
- Collect and document customer feedback.
- Identify recurring service issues and communicate them to management.
- Support customer-retention and repeat-guest initiatives.
- Maintain strong relationships with repeat guests and important customers.
- Handle customer feedback received through online platforms and social media.
- Support selected promotional activities, guest engagement and customer-facing events.
- Protect the privacy and confidentiality of customer information.
- Maintain professional conduct and presentation at all times.
Hospitality Experience Requirement:
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Previous or current experience within the hospitality sector is mandatory.
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Applicants should have experience in one or more of the following areas:
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Guest Relations
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Hotel Front Office
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Reception
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Reservations
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Concierge Services
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Customer Experience
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Restaurant Guest Relations
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Hotel Operations
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Resort Operations
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Premium Customer Service
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Preference will be given to candidates with approximately 3–5 years or more of relevant hospitality experience.
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The successful candidate should already understand basic hospitality concepts including:
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Guest expectations
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Service recovery
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Complaint escalation
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Customer confidentiality
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Reservation processes
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Hospitality etiquette
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Cross-department coordination
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Premium service standards.
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Customer Service Standards The Customer Relations Officer must:
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Listen carefully before responding to customers.
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Remain calm and composed during difficult situations.
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Demonstrate empathy without making unauthorized promises.
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Communicate clearly and professionally.
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Never argue with or embarrass a guest.
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Resolve issues within approved authority levels.
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Escalate issues promptly when management intervention is required.
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Follow up on unresolved customer concerns.
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Maintain discretion when handling sensitive guest matters.
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Treat all customers professionally and respectfully.
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Digital Customer Engagement The successful candidate should be comfortable using digital communication channels and will be expected to:
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Respond to customer enquiries through WhatsApp and approved social platforms.
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Manage customer direct messages professionally.
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Identify online complaints requiring immediate operational attention.
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Escalate negative reviews or sensitive public complaints.
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Support the Social Media and Marketing teams with customer-related information.
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Communicate promotions and service information to customers where required.
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Maintain professional written communication across all digital channels.
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Personal Presentation As a highly visible representative of the organization, the successful candidate must:
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Maintain excellent personal grooming and hygiene.
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Be consistently neat, polished and professionally presented.
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Demonstrate confident and welcoming body language.
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Speak clearly and professionally.
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Be approachable and personable.
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Be comfortable interacting with executives, families, business travellers, international guests and other customer groups.
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Be confident appearing in selected customer-information or promotional content where required.
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Maintain professional behaviour both physically and online.
Required Skills and Competencies:
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Strong hospitality customer-service experience.
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Excellent verbal and written communication.
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Strong interpersonal skills.
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Excellent listening ability.
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Emotional intelligence.
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Conflict-resolution and complaint-handling skills.
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Good judgement and discretion.
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Strong customer relationship management skills.
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Ability to remain calm under pressure.
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Good organizational skills.
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Ability to multitask.
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Attention to detail.
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Basic computer literacy.
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Familiarity with CRM, hotel management, booking or customer-support systems.
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Good understanding of WhatsApp and major social-media platforms.
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Ability to work effectively across multiple departments.
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Key Performance Indicators Performance will be measured using indicators including:
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Customer satisfaction.
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Complaint-resolution rate.
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Average response time.
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Average resolution time.
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Number of unresolved complaints.
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Quality of customer communication.
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Guest feedback and review scores.
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Customer follow-up rate.
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Repeat-customer engagement.
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Reservation or enquiry conversion.
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