Guest Service Supervisor in Portsmouth

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Job Advert – Guest Services Supervisor | Gunwharf Quays

Location: Gunwharf Quays

Hours: 30 hours per week (including evenings and weekends)

Salary: £14.37 per hour

Reporting to: Guest Services Lead

About The Role

We are looking for a proactive and people-focused Guest Services Supervisor to support the delivery of an exceptional experience at Gunwharf Quays. You will play a key role in leading the front-line Guest Services team, ensuring smooth daily operations while maintaining the highest standards of customer service.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys leading teams, and is passionate about creating memorable guest experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Support

• Supervise and support the Guest Services team to ensure effective daily operations
• Provide coaching, feedback and ongoing development to team members
• Lead by example in delivering outstanding guest service

Guest Experience

• Manage guest enquiries, complaints and escalations professionally and efficiently
• Ensure a welcoming, safe and clean environment for all visitors
• Monitor service delivery to drive consistency and high satisfaction levels

Operational Excellence

• Oversee day-to-day Guest Services functions including reception, concierge and information desks
• Maintain accurate records of guest interactions and identify trends
• Collaborate with centre teams (security, cleaning, maintenance) to deliver a seamless experience

Training & Compliance

• Support onboarding and continuous development of the team
• Ensure all procedures align with health & safety and company policies

Reporting & Administration

• Complete shift reports and monitor team performance
• Support improvements to processes and service standards

About You

• Experience in a customer-facing supervisory role
• Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills
• Calm under pressure with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Confident using systems and customer service tools
• Flexible and able to work a variety of shifts

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a vibrant, guest-focused environment
• Opportunity to develop leadership experience
• Work within a supportive and collaborative team

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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