Executive Housekeeper

**The Standard Brussels**:
**Executive Housekeeper**:
Opening in early 2025, The Standard, Brussels marks the hotel brand’s third outpost in Europe. Set in the city’s Northern Quarter, The Standard, Brussels brings the brand’s design, culture, and activation-driven philosophy to Belgium.

With 180 guestrooms (plus 20 residences), the modern, new-build project features many stages for The Standard’s renowned day
- and nightlife. A ground-floor greenhouse welcomes guests and locals into the lobby lounge, restaurant, and terrace. Upstairs, The Rooftop features its own restaurant, bar, and garden—set to become a neighbourhood destination. Throughout the building, additional public and private event spaces are platforms for happenings.

The Standard, Brussels will welcome a new set of creative, dynamic guests into the brand ethos. In Brussels, The Standard’s signature mix of playful, sophisticated, unexpected hospitality finds roots and resonances in local culture. The simple premise behind The Standard is that it is anything but. Founded in 1999, the goals of every Standard are to up the aesthetic stakes and defy convention while attending to every detail, embracing our local communities, providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for our teams and, of course, delivering a smashing good time for our guests.

We are defined by our richness of personality, diversity of background and lifestyle and are now looking for an **Executive Housekeeper** who will embody our ‘Anything but Standard’ ethos as we commence our pre-opening period.

**Your role**

As the **Executive Housekeeper** for The Standard, Brussels you will work in partnership with the General Manager and our Director of Rooms to oversee all aspects of our Guest Accommodation and public areas in terms of cleanliness and ensuring they are presented and staged correctly to welcome guests.

This role is pivotal during the pre-opening period you will work closely with our design team, to ensure that the project runs to schedule, pre-opening budgets are managed and the property is successfully launched. With 200 guest rooms and residences there is a large amount of FF&E to order and place in each individual bedroom, as well as our smaller operating supplies and equipment across the hotel ahead of our opening date.

As a senior department head, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that our cost per room is managed effectively, cost controls are in place and labour productivity and cost control are in line with our pre-opening and operating budget. You will have ideally worked with and managed an outsourced housekeeping agency contract. You will play an active part in the Annual Hotel Budget, and be responsible to for budgeting all rooms expenses from linen, guest supplies, cleaning materials and labour.

Your keen eye for details means that you never miss a thing, and your presence within the operation once we are open will ensure that our property is maintained meticulously and each area staged to optimise our guest’s experience. An important part of your role is the continual upkeep of the overall Design ethos of all guest spaces with regard to furniture layouts and room set-ups to ensure this remains consistent and that all colleagues are familiar with the specific design concepts and staging related to their areas so that daily checks are conducted by the team to review the set-up of all restaurants, bars and public areas to ensure that they are set to standard and that any special seasonal themes or activations are in place.

As a natural team leader, you remain calm during challenging situations with the ability to lead, motivate and coach your team to enable them to develop and grow their skills. This is not a ‘Standard’ Executive Housekeeper role so you will need to have serious stamina and passion, be highly social, upbeat, and friendly; confident and handle pressure well; thrive in a high-volume, high-energy environment and able to work equally well both independently and as part of a wider senior management team.

**Do you have what it takes to be our Executive Housekeeper at The Standard, Brussels....**

A **minimum of 3+ years**’ experience as an **Executive Housekeeper** or **Housekeeping Manager** gained within a similar Lifestyle Hotel or large 4- or 5-star Hotel in Brussels is essential for this role

In addition to this you may also have.
- Ideally have pre-opening Hotel Experience with strong project management skills to coordinate FF&E and OS&E orders and installations
- A solid understanding of the Brussels Hotel market, local business requirements and understanding of the local labour market
- A background in a large Hotel +200 bedrooms
- Have previously led and managed a large team
- Experience of managing an outsourced agency Housekeeping contract
- Have previously managed the full end to end budgeting process with excellence commercial acumen
- Experience across a range of senior management disciplines, wit