Manager of Meetings

5 months ago

Brisbane, Australia AccorHotel Full time

Company Description
**Your team and working environment**:
The Sofitel Brisbane Central is centrally located within the heart of Brisbane City. The hotel’s 416 elegantly appointed rooms and suites are complemented by the finest personal luxuries to make this one of Brisbane’s best accommodation experiences. The hotel features a number of exquisite and extravagant food & beverage outlets, two fitness centres, a Day Spa and fully flexible event spaces for up to 1100 delegates.

**Job Description**:
Have your finger on the pulse of this magnifique luxury hotel in this exciting, fast-paced and highly accountable position. Warning This role is not for the meek - it requires a truly passionate individual, with enough prior experience to take on this hotel's meeting and events portfolio with fervour and hit the ground running. This challenging and rewarding position comes with our promise - you will work with the best in the business, and be mentored and developed into an incredibly fulfilling career.

Every day will be remarkable for the Meeting and Events Manager, leading a team of Executives and assisting the Director of Sales with the overall function of the Meeting and Events team to maximise performance, drive profitability and finesse functions to achieve continuous improvement. This key position is the conduit responsible for the management of events - receiving handover from Sales, passing to operations and finalising post event requirements.

**What you will be doing**:

- Lead a team to perform the end-to-end coordination of the hotel's meetings and events
- Assist the Director of Sales to maximise revenue for meeting and events profitability, and to drive new improvements
- Work closely with the Director of Sales, Director of Revenue and Sales team to achieve revenue targets
- Be ultimately responsible for the management of events from handover from Sales to execution
- Represent a luxury product and communicate and liaise at all levels, ensuring guest expectations are exceeded
- Instill guest focused and performance driven culture among the Meeting and Events team
- Be the face of Sofitel Brisbane Central, representing a five-star luxury brand.

**Qualifications**:
The Manager of Meetings and Events is professional and knowledgeable about the brand, the local area and the luxury experience, is extremely well connected, and builds strong relationships and bonds with clients.

**Your experience and skills include**:

- Minimum five years’ experience in event management in a luxury brand
- Tertiary qualification in Business, Sales or Event Management (desirable)
- Experience in leading others and developing a high performing team
- Highly motivated and driven to succeed
- Excellent collaboration skills and an ability to work independently and unsupervised
- Guest focused and committed to providing exceptional service at all times
- Highly responsible and reliable, achieving tasks efficiently, accurately and promptly
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Outstanding personal presentation and style, aligned with the Sofitel luxury brand.

Additional Information
**Benefits and perks**

Sofitel Brisbane Central provides ambassadors career development opportunities within the hotel and wider Accor Group. We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.

We live by our Heartist principles, that is, the heart and art of human connection. Understanding people is our business and putting people at the heart of our organisation is how we make decisions. We want every ambassador to feel valued, inspired and to strive for greatness every day.

**We offer our Heartists**:

- The opportunity to Work Your Way and build a career with the largest hotel group in the Pacific
- Laundered uniforms
- Secure parking in the centre of Brisbane for $10 per day
- Direct access to Central train station
- Complimentary hotel stay package for your work anniversary
- Worldwide employee and family and friends benefits at Accor Hotels.

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