Our Company has one exciting mission: To entertain the human race and provide an unforgettable escape. Delivering excellence for our guests, and contributing to building and sustaining our communities, requires collaboration from diverse teams of world-class talent. Our iconic MGM Resorts brands offer a wide variety of exciting career opportunities, each with access to unlimited growth.
Primary ResponsibilitiesThe Director of Catering provides overall strategic direction and day-to-day oversight of property, industry-leading luxury meeting and event operations, specializing in catering, group dining, hospitalities, and weddings, including strategic planning, leadership, financial performance, and development of staff. This position develops and executes strategies that maintain property competitive advantage within the market and maximize revenue.

• Provides leadership to the Catering, Group Dining, Hospitality, and Wedding Sales teams through consistent communication, coaching, administration, and education on departmental goals, ensuring the buy-in and support of all team members to impact the success of the department, and creation of synergy between these teams and the Convention Services, Sales and Banquet departments.
• Accountable for monitoring Catering and Banquets financial statements, reporting forecast and pace, delivering direction in the development of the department’s budget, aligning with short and long-term strategic objectives, and driving the maximization of revenue through the development of food and beverage offering selection and pricing structure.
• Engages in sales strategy to maximize revenue and mitigate risk through effectively reviewing the availability of space and implementing marketing strategies to target off-peak dates, the negotiation and monitoring of definite contracts, the writing of catering discount clauses, cultivation of client relationships and direct catering management of a minimum of two groups per year.
• Develop and maintain brand standards through curation of progressive and trendsetting food, beverage, and venue offerings, participation in the property's sustainability initiatives, and effective partnership with Brand Marketing and garner maximum revenue
• Hold team and self-accountable for adherence to property guest service and brand standards by refining service standards and modeling professional and modeling internal and external guest interactions.
• Owns the execution of functional strategy and the operational direction of the department, proactively assessing, modifying, and standardizing processes and systems to optimize efficiency and improve the guest experience.
• Takes responsibility for the division’s Human Resources responsibilities for assigned department(s) to include: creating a work environment that promotes teamwork, performance feedback, recognition, mutual respect, and employee satisfaction; quality hiring, staffing level evaluation, training and succession planning processes that encompass the company’s diversity commitment.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4 Years of Prior Relevant Experience