Women on top at Sandals MoBay
In a male-dominated world, Sandals Montego Bay has put more women in leadership positions at the resort over the last few years.
Of the hotel’s 25 managers, 17 are female, with two more well advanced in the resort’s trainee managers’ programme. The financial controller is Patricia Hewan, while the operations department is under the control of Cheryl Brown. Two other key positions, those of sales manager and front office manager, are held by Cheddi Brown and Dawn Smith respectively.
The list continues with grounds manager Beverly Robinson; photo shop manager Sherri-Ann Allen; cost controller Kassandra Henry; environment manager Lisa Simpson; chief steward Everdene James; evening duty manager Patricia Symister; training manager Debbi Ellis; executive housekeeper, Elesia Chin; human resources manager Ulla Wright; concierge manager Heather McDonald; entertainment manager Ann-Marie Christian; resident nurse Noida Clarke and spa manager Dawn Lemonius. The two trainee managers are Natalia DeLisser and Joseth Elliott.
At the middle management level, the women who ‘run things’ are assistant financial controller Joan Wright; assistant HR manager Andrea Shippy; reservationist Natalia Waite; assistant spa manager Janet Clarke; assistant sales manager Tristana Lambert; bar supervisor Dawn Brown-Johnson; housekeeping supervisors Joan Tappins, Juliet Manderson and Patricia Senior; accounts supervisor Loretta Symister; kitchen supervisors Tanya Gosling and Nerva Hall and pastry chef Keisha Sanderson.
The resort also has the distinction of having two former female resident managers in Lisa Richards and Theresa Dickenson, as well as a former executive assistant manager in Sharon Shearer. Pearline Harding and Hyacinth Samuels started working with the company from its inception 25 years ago.
“At this property, we hire people firstly because they are competent and bright. They must also possess the Sandals spirit,” general manager Horace Peterkin said.
“The fact that I have a lot of women on my management team was not done by design. It happened purely by accident.”
