Events Co-ordinator

Elite Hotels; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury hotel group in Eastbourne is seeking an Events Co-Ordinator to manage sales enquiries for weddings and social functions. The role involves building customer relationships and producing event proposals and contracts. Ideal candidates should have experience in an events role, excellent communication skills, and a sales-focused mindset. This position offers 33.5 hours of work per week and includes various benefits.

Benefits

Employee benefits package

Investor in People Company

Qualifications

• Experience in an events role, ideally within a luxury venue.
• Excellent communication skills across all media.
• Sales focused with aptitude for closing and upselling.
• Administration & IT skills, including computer literacy.
• Attention to detail, professional manner, and understanding of confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Deal proactively with sales enquiries including weddings and conferences.
• Meet and build relationships with customers.
• Produce event proposals, contracts, and invoices.
• Take ownership of projects and ensure execution.
• Work across departments to ensure continuity of service.

Skills

Experience in an events role

Excellent communication skills

Sales focused

Administration & IT skills

Attention to detail

Ability to use initiative

Experience with Opera

Job description

Overview

The Events Co-Ordinator will deal proactively with all sales enquiries including weddings, social functions and conferences, ensuring conversion of these. You will meet and build relationships with customers, produce event proposals, contracts and invoices as required, taking ownership of projects and seeing them through to execution. Working as part of a team, you must have excellent organisational skills and the ability to work across a range of departments to ensure continuity of service for the customer.

Hours of work are 33.5hrs per week, working five days over seven.

Key Attributes/Experience

• Experience in an events role, ideally within a luxury venue
• Excellent communication skills across all media
• Sales focused with particular aptitude for closing and upselling
• Administration & IT skills, including computer literacy and familiarity with database/booking packages
• Attention to detail, professional manner and good understanding of confidentiality issues
• Able to use initiative and remain calm under pressure
• Opera experience is a bonus!

About us

Affectionately known as “The White Palace” The Grand Hotel in Eastbourne has a well-earned reputation for excellence. With over 150 rooms, an award winning restaurant and 17 fully equipped meeting rooms, the hotel is able to cater for every occasion. We reserve the right to close any advertised post before the stated closing date once enough applications are received. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible

At Elite Hotels we have a single minded & unwavering goal to make every visit to our hotels a positive experience that customers feel compelled to talk about.

Benefits:
As an employee focused Investor In People Company we offer a great range of benefits to the successful candidate. For full details please visit our careers page: https://www.careersatelitehotels.co.uk/why-work-elite

*service charge is dependant on sales performance and not guaranteed