What are the responsibilities and job description for the SALES/EVENT MANAGER position at Homewood Suites Pittsburgh Downtown?
Description
Do you love meeting people, taking on new challenges, and seeing your hard work pay off? We're in search of a driven, motivating sales manager to help our team achieve our sales goals. You'll be responsible for setting our sales strategy and targets, cultivating our sales staff, evaluating their progress, and ensuring we hit our sales goals. Job seekers should be leaders, innovators, hard workers, and team players.
Benefits :
We offer competitive wages. Full-time associates are eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefit package, which includes medical / dental / vision plans, life insurance, ST / LT disability options, 401K options, tuition assistance, discounted room rates at our managed hotels, plus training & development and career advancement opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Provide the highest levels of customer service to internal partners and external clients at all times.
- Deliver a successful experience for the planner and attendees with the goal of garnering both repeat and referral business.
- Respond in a quick, timely, and professional manner to all internal partners and external customers, and deliver clear and concise communiqu.
- Effectively and efficiently monitor and manage all aspects of the pre-event, event, and post-event details :
- Track, detail, and communicate the particulars of each assigned event and groupincluding but not limited toroom blocks, meeting space, special concessions, group history and other reports, cut-off and other key dates, contract clauses, group resumes, event orders and BEO's, billing details, and other integral aspects of groups and events.
- Gain knowledge of the hotel's food and beverage products, pricing, and presentation, and learn about the hotel's function space, audio visual, and any other details related to event success.
- Demonstrate excellent time management, self-motivation, and organizationally savvy with a keen focus on details.
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