Job Description For Groups and Events Manager
The London EDITION is looking for its next Groups and Events Manager!
We are looking for a driven, diligent and friendly Groups and Events Manager to join the team at The London EDITION hotel.
As a Groups and Events Manager, you will:
- Manage sales efforts for the hotel including local corporate and social catering.
- Work collaboratively with off-property sales channels (e.g., Sales Office, Area Sales, EST) to ensure sales efforts are coordinated, complementary and not duplicative.
- Respond to incoming catering opportunities for the hotel.
- Identify, qualify and solicit new catering business to achieve personal and hotel revenue goals.
- Understand the overall market - competitors' strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and know how to sell against them.
- Close the best opportunities for the hotel based on market conditions and hotel needs.
- Use negotiating skills and creative selling abilities to close on business and negotiate contracts.
- Design, develop and sell creative catered events.
- Maximise revenue by up-selling packages and creative food and beverage.
- Manage catering sales revenue and operation budgets, and provide forecasting reports.
- Execute and support the operational aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence).
- Participate in and practices daily service basics of the brand.
- Monitor the effective resolution of guest issues that arise as a result of the sales process by creating mechanisms to channel issues to property leadership and/or other appropriate stakeholders.
- Ensure successful performance by increasing revenues, controlling expenses and providing a return on investment for the owner and the company.
Our most successful Groups and Events Manager is someone who:
- Has previous leadership experience in a high-volume, fining dining service and events
- Takes pride in their role and the impact they have on our guests' and employees' experience
- Is ambitious and wants to grow within their career
- Is a team player
- Is an excellent communicator
- Is innovative, always looking for ways to improve processes and procedures
- Has fun while working!
Would you like a job that gives you...
- World class training and development, including leadership development
- Unlimited career opportunities (internationally and locally)
- Bonus plan
- Enhanced holiday entitlement - starting at 31 days (including bank holidays) and increasing with length of service
- Company pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Wellness and mental health programmes
- Flexible scheduling
- Discounted accommodation in over 9,000 hotels all over the world!
- Discounted food & drink in most of our restaurants and bars
- Discounts for your friends and family
- Amazing staff parties
EDITION Hotels combine the visionary genius of boutique hotelier Ian Schrager, the service delivery of a world-class luxury hotel, and the global reach of Marriott International to create an entirely new experience in the world of hospitality. Our hotels are stunning microcosms of the world's top cities, featuring the finest in dining, entertainment, nightlife, and service to create an enchanting experience that makes your spirit soar.
If this sounds like the perfect place for you, apply to be our next Groups and Events Manager today!
EDITION is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.
EDITION Hotels combine the visionary genius of boutique hotelier Ian Schrager, the service delivery of a world-class luxury hotel, and the global reach of Marriott International to create an entirely new experience in the world of hospitality. EDITION delivers the best of both worlds in a delicate balancing act - polish with personality, perfectionism with individualism, and comfort with charisma and charm. The brand targets sophisticated, knowledgeable consumers who understand quality, originality, design, and service excellence, but who want it without limitations - breaking the bounds of convention and demanding an attitude and a feeling wrapped in a package that showcases the exceptional.
But to create this magical experience, we need you. We are looking for outgoing, authentically amazing people who are looking for a place to work that inspires them, challenges them and makes them proud to come to work. A place where service comes from the heart, not from a handbook. A place that delivers a never-ending theatrical performance that continuously delights and enchants each and every one of our guests.
We invite you to join us today. In joining EDITION, you join a portfolio of brands with Marriott International.
Be where you can do your best work,
begin your purpose,
belong to an amazing global team, and
become the best version of you.
Muzammel Huque Chy
Makkah, Saudi Arabia