Corporate Event Maestro: On-site Ops & Client Delivery

Gate 8 Melbourne; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gate 8 Melbourne is seeking an Event Operations Manager to oversee planning and delivery of corporate and not-for-profit events. You will be hands-on in the room, coordinating with the Hospitality Manager and Head Chef to ensure seamless events from setup to post-event reporting.

You’ll lead rostering, manage vendors, and maintain high service standards across meeting rooms, a bar/restaurant, auditorium and workshop spaces. Flexibility for early starts, evenings and weekends is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on hospitality experience and high service standards.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with teams, clients and tenants.
• Very high attention to detail and proactive issue resolution.
• Excellent presentation sense for corporate spaces and events.
• Experience with rostering, vendor management and stock ordering.
• Proficient in Word and Excel for planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Confirm inclusions, AV, room setups, staffing and rosters, vendors, stock orders and bump in/out.
• Create event collateral like name tags, menus and signage.
• Be in the room for events, supervise and deliver hospitality.
• Work closely with Head Chef, back of house and front of house teams.
• Perform post-event reporting and client follow-up.

Skills

Hands-on hospitality

Team builder

Client relationships

Attention to detail

Presentation

Rostering

Tools

Word

Excel

Job description

Gate 8 Melbourne is seeking an Event Operations Manager to oversee planning and delivery of corporate and not-for-profit events. You will be hands-on in the room, coordinating with the Hospitality Manager and Head Chef to ensure seamless events from setup to post-event reporting.

You’ll lead rostering, manage vendors, and maintain high service standards across meeting rooms, a bar/restaurant, auditorium and workshop spaces. Flexibility for early starts, evenings and weekends is required.