Events Manager The Midland

Leonardo Hotels; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality group in Manchester seeks a Meetings and Events Operations Manager. In this role, you will lead the M&E operation, ensuring excellent customer care and maintaining high standards. You will be the vibrant host for customers, manage staffing for events, and require strong communication and leadership skills. Come join this exciting team focused on growth and development.

Benefits

Head of Department bonus scheme

Enhanced pension plan

Special rates on hotel rooms

Meals on duty

Ongoing training programs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing M&E operations.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the M&E operation to ensure exceptional guest experiences.
• Manage staffing levels for events.
• Communicate effectively with customers and hotel departments.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Leadership

Multi-tasking

Job description

Be Yourself – Be an Inspiration to Your Team – Be Leonardo

As a Meetings and Events (M&E) Operations Manager and Head of Department, you’ll be keeping the M&E operation running like clockwork and leading your team to ensure our guests have an incredible experience with us. Take a deep breath because you’ll be stepping into a busy role! We set high standards for ourselves to surprise and delight our guests, so you’ll need to manage the M&E operation with a passion to deliver excellent customer care.

Benefits

• Head of Department bonus scheme: based on our financial and your personal performances
• Enhanced pension plan
• Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of!
• Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
• Meals on duty
• Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
• We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
• The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
• Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression

Responsibilities

• Be yourself!
• Be a vibrant host for customers and an expert in recognising their needs- customer retention is a crucial part of this role!
• Be hands on and visible in the operation with the ability to lead and multi-task
• Keep the details in mind- you’ll take ownership for ensuring the hotel facilities and equipment are well-maintained
• Have great communication skills- it’s important to establish relationships with organisers, and other departments within the hotel!
• Ensure that staffing levels are adequate for upcoming events

Why join us?

We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you’re part of the team, you’re part of the Leonardo community and it’s our role to keep you at the top of your game as a Head of Department (HOD)! Our HODs hold key team leadership roles, so we support your management skills with our “People Programme” and “Passion 4 People Leonardo Culture” workshops.

To develop vital business and people skills we offer an 8-month “Fast Forward Programme”, or if the time is right our longer-term “Accelerate Programme” will prepare you for your first DGM or Operations Manager role! “Accelerate” develops your abilities and expertise at Leonardo Hotels, along with an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) certificate and membership of the Institute of Hospitality (IoH). With our support on tap, top-notch practical training and clear progression you’ll be on track for a brilliant future in Hospitality.

Our Story

Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we operate over 270 hotels across the United Kingdom and Europe. We look after over 55 hotels across the UK & Ireland, and being one of the fastest growing hotel groups, we have plans for major expansion over the next few years’; there’s never been a more exciting time to come join us!