Current Vacancies

Vacancy

Events Co-ordinator

Location

Norton Park

Department

Sales

Salary

up to £16,000pa

Closing Date

02-04-2010

Contact Email

kunderwood@QHotels.co.uk

Job Description

YOUR BRIEF:

To co-ordinate all event details, post contract stage through production of accurate function sheets, ensuring the operations team have all relevant information to ensure the event is successful and revenue is captured.

AS AN EVENT CO-ORDINATOR YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

~ Co-ordinating all event details post the contract stage.

~Conducting final detail meetings in accordance to QH brand standards.

~Actively researching and take positive action for sales leads from existing and new clients.

~Handling incoming event and accommodation group (9+ rooms) enquiries in accordance to QH brand standards, in the absence of an Event Sales Executive

~Conducting post event follow-up calls to gather customer feedback and to identify further booking opportunities in accordance to QH brand standards, setting an activity for an Event Sales Executive.

~Producing the BEO’s to reflect 100% accuracy of the client’s requirements, ensuring they are circulated at least one prior to the event.

TO BE A ONE OF A KIND EVENT CO-ORDINATOR:

~ Actively promote the hotel at every opportunity, including promotional events and showrounds to prospective customers

~Use initiative to ‘go the extra mile’ for potential clients to make their event individual and unique

~ Come up with innovative ways of selling the hotel – advising the Event Dept Manager at all times

~Provide a warm welcome to clients when you meet them – use their name

~Say hello to any guests or colleagues you meet as you walk around the hotel - SMILE

YOUR TALENTS:

~ You can prove that you’re great with final details, by perhaps a similar job in the past

~You’re good with numbers and also written and spoken English

~Ideally you will know your way around Event Management IT Systems

~You’ll be confidently able to talk to anyone and everyone

~You will be flexible and adaptable

IN RETURN:

We offer a bespoke uniform, free meals on duty, leisure club membership, free car parking, employee incentive schemes and generously discounted staff rates at other QHotels.

After being part of the team for six months you are able to join the Companies contributory pension scheme and you will also be able to enjoy a complimentary two-night stay for two after your first year, every year.

QHotels believes strongly in the training and development of its employees and offers a wide range of opportunities from in-house training courses and NVQ support, to funding of a variety of external courses.

OUR PLACE:

This ultra-modern hotel has benefited from a £14 million investment, every penny of which was well and truly worth it, we are sure you will agree. From the light-flooded reception area, giving you immediate reassurance that you are in a hotel to remember, through to the bright tones and clean lines of our inviting Scene Restaurant & Bar then onwards to your immaculate room, one of 185 equipped with a supremely comfortable Sealy bed and of course, that all important flat-screen TV.

13 of our 185 bedrooms are found in the Manor House, separate from the main hotel with its very own orangery and walled-garden. The bedrooms within the Manor House have been sympathetically restored, brimming full with elegant furnishings and a real sense of grandeur. That's not all, the Manor House can be exclusively yours to make a special celebration something truly memorable.

For Conferences, Special Events and Meetings, Norton Park has versatility as its middle name. With 16 Conference and Events rooms capable of staging large scale product launches and annual meetings to small scale training sessions and private dining events, there is definitely a room and a setting here that will make you and your delegates more than satisfied. Our conference and events suites are located in our Main Hotel, our Manor House, and our 17th Century Tythe Barn.

Norton Park and the 54 acres it resides in, is located only minutes from the A34 with easy access from the M3, M4 and M27. Easy to reach it may be, easy to leave it most definitely is not.

INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEAM?

Contact:Kate Underwood, Regional Human Resources Manager Tel: 01962 763010 Email: kunderwood@qhotels.co.uk

We welcome all applications, however we can only consider applicants eligible to live and work in the UK for this role.