Your career

At The Grand, we care enormously about your growth and development. Therefore, we have a fulltime Learning & Development Manager in house to help and guide you to achieve your professional and personal goals! 

Moreover, there are many growth possibilities within The Grand. Together with your manager, you make a personal development plan and together we will work towards your goal! Since The Grand is part of Accor, of course you have great possibilities to grow (inter)nationally within Accor. 

Support groups to join!
Are you in for a challenge and would you like to join one of our support groups? That is possible! Within The Grand, we have several support groups who support the hotel at sustainability and CSR, innovation, work pleasure and so on. Participation can be part of your work. Would you like to more about these groups? Continue reading!

Be Balanced

At Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, we think a good work / life balance is very important. Therefore, we are continually looking for new ideas how to improve the wellbeing of our employees!

Within the hotel, we have a committed Be Balanced group that is always looking for new initiatives and aim to create awareness around a healthy lifestyle in a fun exciting way within The Grand.

Planet 21

With the Planet 21 program, Accor announces ambitious objectives. Within our hotel, we have a committed group of employees who are always looking for new initiatives that could contribute to a sustainable environment. 

Examples are the fight against food waste with the app ‘Too Good to Go’, the mushroom bitterbal made from our own coffee ground and our rooftop garden! Next to that, we organize a Planet 21 event every year. 

Shadow ExCom

As Shadow ExCom member, you will be part of this Inside- Out Hero team for one year. Together you will work on innovative and strategic project(s). You will gain insights and diversify the perspectives that executives exposed to. In two weekly sprints, you will be able to present a new step you made with your team within your project.

Furthermore, you will work on your own personal development to develop your talents to a further extend. Therefore, you will find yourself regularly in a meeting with your team, the initiator of the specific project and team-coach. Moreover, you will meet once per quarter with our Talent Board; all to support you in your development.

Quality Committee 

As member of the Quality Committee, you are all about quality! Within all departments, you will discover and check whether all quality standards are in order and maintained. Moreover, you will come up with creative ideas to enhance our quality!

Work Council

Would you like to be there for all of your colleagues and ensure they know their rights as employees? Then you should join the work council! This is your opportunity to combine the rights of all of our ambassadors whilst taking in consideration what is best for our beautiful hotel.

Employees can come to you whenever they have a question or would like to discuss a challenging matter.