Butler Service Company
To contact our Butler service company, please call +442032900142 or email: info@bespokebureau.com
Impressively, our butler company London has butlers available all year around. Of course, our butlers can start now or later. Moreover, they can work permanently or temporarily. Also, the work around the globe.
What does a butler do?
Professional butler duties vary and may include, but are not limited to, managerial responsibilities, keeping accounts, marketing, and maintaining the wardrobe for the principals of the residence. A personal butler will be well versed in etiquette, serving, and have a thorough understanding of formal home care. They are traditionally hired to oversee one estate or home and will support the principal while often overseeing other household staff.
A butler will also prepare the residence for guests, including managing the preparation of guest accommodations, greet them when they arrive, assist in getting them settled and make sure they take care of all needs during their visit. They will also assist in organizing the estate or home for special events or parties, including greeting guests, managing the event staff and assuring everything runs smoothly.
Why use a Butler service company for recruitment?
You might be wondering “Why would I need a referral agency? Can’t I just find someone on my own without your help?”
If you want the least hassle possible, have the best domestic staff on the market, and free up a TON of your time to focus on what you actually want to do – there is no better option than to let us do the heavy lifting for you and match you with that perfect butler.
A butler service company connects independent butlers with clients who need their services. This makes the process of finding or hiring a butler a lot easier and faster than scouring through random online postings!
You get referred to a vetted butler with at least 5 years experience in a similar role to yours, and you can trial them in your own time.
Excellent recruitment consultants at the Butler service company
Needless to say, our consultants are experienced in finding the right butler for you. They work on set salaries so this means they are not pushy with you. Similarly, they work alongside you so you can make the right choice for your household. As a result, your individual home staff requirements will be in our capable hands. Obviously, there is nothing more important to an employer than efficiency and reliability in their choice of domestic staff agencies. You can rest assured that our interview and vetting procedures are strict and thorough. Last but not least, our agency offers superb Filipina housekeepers, nannies and carers.
Our Butler service company offers candidates that are:
- of course, very experienced
- often qualified
- importantly, formally trained
- obviously interviewed and vetted
- reference checked.
- often bilingual
- always hard working
- flexible
- needless to say discreet
We will find you the best butler available. We place the world’s best butlers in:
- households.
- hotels.
- palaces.
- private members clubs.
- yachts
Our Butler service company offers:
- experienced butlers.
- male butlers.
- female butlers.
- qualified butlers.
- bilingual butlers.
- temporary butlers.
- event butlers.
- permanent butlers.
- holiday butlers.
- finally, butler valets.
An agency with a strict selection process
We have an unrivalled selection of available household staff on our books. Uniquely, most of them are well known to us and have worked for our VIP clients before. Most come to us recommended from other clients. We only accept the best candidates. We do not advertise so everyone comes recommended. They must have at least 5 years experience to work with us. We advise our candidates to get DBS checks (via us or elsewhere). Their references are good.
Cost of a Butler
So how much does a butler cost? Well, in the UK, you can expect to pay anything from 55K per annum gross up to around 80-85k for a top butler. Overseas, Butlers will typically want a higher salary. 65k per annum is an approx start figure. Interestingly, overseas clients pay up to 100k per year and sometimes even more for a top butler candidate.
Butler Agency – unrivalled placement guarantee
Impressively, no other agency offers a 12 month placement guarantee. Meaning, when you find someone via us and we will back you up with a replacement within 12 months. In fact, its a top service we say!
Training and support
Uniquely, our job does not stop when we find you staff. Instead, we stay in touch and follow up on your staff’s progress. Also, we are here to discuss any issues, should the need arise. We also offer training via our famous domestic staff training academy: The British Butler Academy.
General duties and responsibilities for valet butlers:
First of all, knowledge of etiquette and protocol- Secondly, managing household staff
- Thirdly, general butler duties: setting tables, serving at table etc
- Travelling with you
- Valeting duties
- Driving duties
- Looking after wine cellar
- Preparing and serving tea and coffee
- Meeting and greeting of guests
- Liaise between the Principal and other employees
Most our clients expect the butler to have these skills/attributes:
- Of course, previous experience in a similar role
- Essentially, valeting skills
- Loyal, patient, and prepared to juggle different itineraries
- also, be able to think ahead at all times and to look after the principal’s every needs
- Make things happen in rushed situations
- Of course, good English
Difference of a Butler and House Manager
Interestingly, the role of the House Manager and Butler has changed. Actually, the traditional ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ idea of a Butler still exists. However, often in more formal households. Having said that, these days, we are more often asked to find a modern Household Manager. Impressively, the House Manager is an intelligent, practical individual. Also, he or she is prepared to multi-task in all manner of areas.
Some examples are:
- First of all, management of other staff.
- Secondly, general management of a home. Or sometimes of a whole portfolio.
- Thirdly, events organisation.
- Of course, PA duties. For example, diary management.
- Finally, chauffeur duties.
More traditional duty examples are:
- offering formal table service.
- service of drinks.
- also, greeting guests.
- of course, valeting.
- importantly, care of the wine cellar.
- also, cleaning of silver, care of fine antiques and art.
- last but not least, organisation of shoots.
Of course, House Managers and Butlers are computer literate. Furthermore, they are often asked to travel with their employers. Sometimes they work in multiple homes and estates. In fact, some of them manage a whole portfolio of properties. Also, sometimes they are even asked to speak a second language.
Contact us:
Finally, give our household recruitment agency a ring on +442032900142. Or you can email us on info@bespokebureau.com
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