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Barception Manager - Comfort Hotel Grand Central

Location

Norway, Oslo

Location

Norway, Oslo

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2025-05-26

Ready to lead a team to create unforgettable guest experiences?

Comfort Hotel Grand Central, located in the heart of Oslo, draws guests from across the globe with its unbeatable location next to the Opera House and Karl Johans Gate. It's an inspiring workplace where creativity, innovation, and team spirit thrive, making it the perfect environment for both guests and employees alike.

We are looking for a passionate and driven leader to join our team and manage our Barception department. You'll be responsible for leading your team, ensuring smooth operations, and creating a positive and efficient work environment. We value your leadership skills, your dedication to quality, and your commitment to creating unforgettable experiences for our guests.

What you'll do:

  • Lead and motivate your team, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment
  • Ensure smooth operations within your department, upholding brand standards and guest service promises
  • Oversee daily operations and handle multiple tasks efficiently in a busy environment
  • Manage departmental budgets and expenses, and monitor and control costs to ensure profitability

This is a permanent position with a start date to be agreed upon. The role may require working varied shifts, including evenings and weekends, as needed.

You’ll shine here if you are:
As a Strawberry leader you are expected to live the culture by energizing teams and creating engaging workplaces where people love to come to work. You build bridges through relationships, collaboration, and trust. You own it by making decisions with the company's best interests in mind, setting clear goals, and holding yourself and others accountable for achieving results. You lead the way with vision and purpose, and fuel potential by maximizing individual strengths to help others reach their full potential.

Bonus points for:

  • Has a keen eye for detail and takes responsibility
  • Fluent in both written and spoken Norwegian and English
  • Has a natural interest in providing personal service to all our guests
  • Driven to take the department to the next level, elevating both its content and service standards
  • Skilled in planning day-to-day operations, as well as planning for the future
  • Structured, efficient, and accurate
  • We value the power of diversity within Strawberry. Different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas create a unique and inspiring work environment

What we offer:

  • An exciting and varied work environment with a fast pace
  • The right tools and support to flourish both professionally and personally
  • Staff discounts and friends & family rates at our 200+ hotels
  • Four free hotel nights each year
  • 25% discount on food & beverages at all our restaurants & bars
  • Sweet deals on experiences, travels, retail and lots more!

About us

We are Strawberry. With over 245 hotels, 120 restaurants, 20 spas and more, we create thousands of experiences every day. Our team of 20,000 passionate individuals from more than 166 countries is what makes us grow! Strawberry is built on our core values: energy, courage and enthusiasm.

Ready to start an exciting journey with Strawberry? 

Apply today and be part of creating unforgettable experiences! Applications are reviewed continuously, and positions may be filled before the deadline. Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis.

We’re Comfort Hotel® – a hotel chain that promises to give our guests what they need, and skip the unnecessary. We have great locations, urban design and we’re offering selected services, but the service we give is great. We aim to be Easy on the wallet, have Easy access, be Easy to enjoy and last but definitely not least – be Easy on the planet. 

Comfort Hotel® is part of Strawberry.

What’s in it for you?

As part of of Strawberry, you will get the best employee benefits of the industry.

A culture to cherish

A culture to cherish

Our people always make guests their top priority! Our warm and welcoming atmosphere creates the right setting for you to flourish and work your magic. You will get the freedom you need to perform your tasks and solve problems as they arise in the best way you see fit. A strong team spirit and family-feeling foster a culture of collaboration. And when there’s something to celebrate, we make sure to have some fun! In larger cities, we also regularly host after-work events to allow colleagues to mingle. How do we achieve all this you may wonder? We believe it’s down to the fact that we’re a diverse crowd full of energy, courage and enthusiasm. That’s how we create extraordinary experiences every single day!

A culture to cherish

Job security for peace of mind

Job security for peace of mind

When you work with us, we’ll take your whole life situation into consideration. We offer good job security through collective agreements and insurances, as well as paid parental leave, holiday leave, wellness allowance, attractive pension plans and competitive salaries. We’re there for you.

Job security for peace of mind

Room to grow

Room to grow

With more than 200 hotels across the Nordics, we offer you endless opportunities for career progression! Would you like to work full-time, part-time, a few hours here and there, or perhaps only a season? We have room for you, no matter where you’re at. We encourage creativity and curiosity, and we make every effort to foster a culture of learning for professional development. Ready to take your next career leap within the company? We applaud you and will help you achieve this! An academic degree isn't the most important thing for us. If you have the right mindset, we can certainly promise you a bright future!

Room to grow

Explore more

Explore more

We encourage you to get out and explore all that life has to offer! So, we always give numerous discounts to you and your friends and family at our hotels, bars and restaurants. As part of Strawberry, you get four FREE nights at our hotels each year* To remind you just how important you are, we’ll always do our best to offer you an upgrade! And on top of that, we’ve also partnered with other companies to give you sweet deals on air travel, charter holidays, car rental and lots more. 

*If you are employed on a contract for at least 20% of full-time working hours.

Explore more

Open mind, open hearts

Open mind, open hearts

Our heart beats for the world around us. To meet global challenges, we support the transition to clean energy, and we recently opened the first zero-energy hotel in the Nordics. We seek to use organic produce and have championed the elimination of unsustainable palm oil. We promote equal rights above all and are proud sponsors of Pride. Regardless of your ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, disabilities or age - our doors are always open.

Open mind, open hearts

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