Siva Shanmugam named among Hozpitality’s Most Commended Housekeeping Leaders in the Middle East for 2023
Siva Shanmugam, Executive Housekeeper at Al Raha Beach Hotel, has over 17 years of experience working with various five-star hotel brands.
For Siva, housekeeping is not just about cleanliness but also about developing and motivating the next generation's knowledge, skills, attitude, and emotional intelligence to deliver a safe, clean, and hygienic environment to customers and colleagues while contributing to the hotel's profitability and supporting the eco-system and community by choosing sustainable procedures and tools.
Throughout his career, Siva has gathered various competencies from his leaders, starting as a room attendant in 2006 and now as an executive housekeeper. He has taken all the strengths from his leaders to come up with demonstrating his competencies, helping him achieve his vision.
As he stated in his vision, sustainability is a vital part of housekeeping, and he has implemented eco-friendly products such as chemicals and supplies, supported plastic-free supplies, implemented garbage segregation, reduced, reused, and recycled in all aspects of operations, and has implemented paperless operations using a room operations software system.
Siva was born and brought up in India, where he completed his schooling, higher secondary, and college in Madurai. He completed his advanced diploma in catering and hotel management with 95%. Siva comes from a nuclear family with his mother, who is a homemaker.
Siva's short-term goal is to become the best leader in his department by achieving all the departmental objectives and creating platforms where he can grow his career along with the organization and team members. His long-term goal is to become a director of operations in a well-known organization.
Siva's leadership and commitment to sustainable housekeeping practices serve as an inspiration for the entire hospitality industry. His vision and goals will pave the way for future leaders in the industry to follow his lead and create a more sustainable and responsible approach to housekeeping.
Meela Seenarain
Dubai, United Arab Emirates UAE