Sales & Event Executive

The Bath Priory; Bath; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A boutique hotel in Bath is seeking a Sales & Events Executive. The ideal candidate should be passionate about hospitality and possess great customer service skills. While no prior experience is necessary, being personable, calm under pressure, and confident with IT is vital. The role offers competitive pay, including service charge and numerous perks like discounts, free meals, and opportunities for personal development within a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Retail and hospitality perks through Perkbox

25% off food & beverage in hotels

Confidential helpline for support

Free meals on duty

Opportunities for development

Milestone awards for years of service

Qualifications

• No experience required as personality and attitude are key.
• Ability to work part of a team and in a busy office environment.
• Commitment to personal development.

Responsibilities

• Take bookings for the ABode group of hotels.
• Support other properties in the group.
• Provide excellent customer service.

Skills

Passion for hospitality

Customer service skills

Ability to remain calm under pressure

Personable and engaging

Confident using IT

Job description

Location : The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey-coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

SERVICE CHARGE -We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.

Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)

Come and join our team as a Sales & Events Executive and let yourpassion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams toshow thoughtfulnesstowards each other and our guests.

We welcome applications from candidates with no experience, as this role is all about personality and attitude, we can teach you the rest.

About the successful candidate

You will :

• Be passionate about hospitality, and thrive on working as part of a team
• Be personable and engaging when taking bookings for our ABode group of hotels, and supporting our other properties in the group
• Have the ability to deliver great customer service and work in a busy office environment
• Have the ability to remain calm under pressure
• Be committed to their own personal development
• Be confident using IT

Work / life, or as it should be called life / work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams tobe curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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