Beautiful properties with support teams in place
- Leadership role working closely with clients and head office
- Excellent growth opportunities with this national company
**Client Profile**
Our client is a well recognised and long standing National Catering Group that amongst other things have contracts with two leading hotel properties in Melbourne to manage their food and beverage departments.
Working closely with the sales and venue teams, this role will be responsible for the following:
- Driving conference, event and food and beverage activity to the hotels in conjunction with the hotels sales team
- Promoting function and event spaces through a wide range of channels including on-site sales calls, site visits, events, telephone, and written communication
- Developing and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to venue management teams, employees, suppliers, industry leaders and peers
- Management of function software platforms
- Completing administrative tasks as required, including invoicing and processing client payments
To be considered for this role you will have:
- 2 years experience in sales and /or events
- Experience in hospitality is essential and a hotel background preferred
- A confident, vibrant and empathetic personality
- Strong communication and networking skills
- A proactive approach to identifying and generating sales that lead to business development opportunities
- Strong attention to detail and organisation skills
- The ability to work both in a team and autonomously
- A love of the hospitality industry, customer service and events
- Familiarity with MicrosOpera and / or Ungerboeck or similar
- Enthusiastic approach to meeting agreed KPIs and event sales targets
**Offer