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Executive Housekeeper
Role summary
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The Executive Housekeeper leads the hotel’s housekeeping and laundry operations, ensuring consistently high cleanliness, presentation, hygiene, and guest-service standards. Requirements typically include a degree or diploma in hospitality management, several years of supervisory or executive housekeeping experience in a luxury hotel, strong knowledge of room inspections, laundry, budgets, inventory, health and safety, and quality-control procedures. The successful candidate should be organized, commercially aware, hands-on, and confident managing multicultural teams. Excellent communication, coaching, problem-solving, and planning skills are expected, together with flexibility to work shifts, weekends, and holidays. Experience with hotel property-management systems and luxury-brand standards is an advantage.
Can I work in the Philippines?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: The employer files a work permit (Alien Employment Permit) after a local-first job notice, then a 9(g) visa; hotels get permits for specialists, not line staff.
Watch for: From 11 November 2026: job notice online, decision in 10 working days. Filing is online only, at the labour department's central office, since 2026.
Official source: Bureau of Immigration: Pre-arranged Employment Visa (9G). Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the Philippines
Usual for the Philippines, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Not in city hotels; island resorts (Boracay, Siargao) may give shared staff quarters |
|---|---|
| Meals | Duty meals in the staff canteen |
| Flights | Senior packages only |
| Service charge | All of it shared equally among staff except managers (by law); the amount varies by hotel |
| Contract | Probation up to 6 months (by law); foreigners' contracts follow the permit, 1 to 3 years |
| Leave | 5 days after 1 year; 10 regular holidays; 13th-month pay (by law) |
| Income tax | 0% to PHP 250,000 a year (about USD 4,000), then 15% to 35% |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About Makati Shangri-La, Manila
Makati Shangri-La, Manila is a luxury hotel in the heart of Makati, one of the Philippines’ principal business and commercial districts. It is part of Shangri-La Group, an international hospitality company known for upscale hotels, resorts, residences, and a strong emphasis on Asian-inspired service. The hotel offers guest rooms and suites, restaurants and bars, meeting and event facilities, wellness services, and comprehensive business amenities. Its location provides convenient access to offices, shopping centers, dining venues, cultural attractions, and transport connections. As a major city hotel, it serves corporate travelers, leisure guests, diplomatic visitors, and event groups. Employees generally work in a structured, service-focused environment with international operating standards, training opportunities, and collaboration across departments. Actual benefits, career progression, and working conditions depend on the specific employment contract and current hotel policies.