Corporate Events Planning Team Leader

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious company as an Event Planning Team Leader, where you will manage a talented team and ensure exceptional service in corporate hospitality. This role offers the chance to lead large events, motivate your team, and innovate processes to enhance guest experiences. With a global reputation and a commitment to career progression, this opportunity is perfect for those passionate about event management and team leadership. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are ready to take your career to the next level, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an Events Team in a hospitality or corporate environment.
• Strong communication and organizational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning and execution of conferences and events.
• Motivate and lead the events team to exceed client expectations.
• Create new processes to innovate event offerings.

Skills

Event Planning

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

IT Skills

Job description

Job Description

Event Planning Team Leader
Located - City of London, 5 days in the office
£41k plus benefits, Monday - Friday

The Opportunity:
An award-winning Corporate Hospitality Guest Services provider is looking for an Event Planning Team Leader to join the Guest Services team within a prominent corporate headquarters. You will be managing a team of five event planners, taking the lead on larger conference organisation, ensuring exceptional service is delivered across all meetings and event space. The role will be to ensure that all events are created, accurate function sheets documented, and all parties involved in the success of the event have the relevant details to execute the daily program of events.

You will be engaging with the hospitality operations team, audio visual, housekeeping, and front of house guest services team from an administrative function sheet standpoint. The role is to motivate and support the events team along with managing client standards. Your main objectives will include:

1. Taking ownership of the planning and execution of conferences, events & meetings ensuring that all function sheets are accurate and detailed.
2. Team welfare, motivating & leading the events team to exceed client expectations, supporting your team by leading from the front.
3. Weekly one-to-ones to identify training needs ensuring PDP plans are in place.
4. Briefing your team on current events and schedule and diary management.
5. Creating new processes and enhancing ways to innovate events offering.
6. Advising internal stakeholders supporting them with their food and beverage selection, meeting room setups, etc.
7. Managing client expectations & handling complaints, ensuring that the internal stakeholders are kept informed and managed to ensure they are happy with the event planning and execution.

This is a genuinely unique role working at a prestigious company with a global reputation offering you unrivalled career progression and development.

Ideally, you will have the following background:
* Experience of leading an Events Team ideally within a Five Star Hotel Hospitality or Corporate environment.
* Track record of managing events from conception to handover to an operational team.
* Carrying out development plans and performance management.
* Strong communication and organisational skills.
* Strong IT skills.

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