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A leading hospitality provider is seeking an Events Executive to oversee catering sales and coordinate successful event experiences. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on service excellence and a background in event planning. Responsibilities include managing event logistics, providing tailored proposals, and ensuring all aspects of events are executed seamlessly. The role offers a collaborative work culture and opportunities for professional growth within the hospitality sector.
Location: RHS Garden Wisley
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time, 5 out of 7 days per week
As Events Executive, you will be responsible for securing all catering sales, coordinating all aspects of the food and beverage bookings and overseeing the operational delivery of exceptional hospitality and event experiences across RHS Wisley. Working alongside the RHS Wisley Events Team, the position will require a proactive approach to converting and maximizing all catering sales opportunities. The role will involve creating innovative and bespoke catering proposals to exceed customer expectations as well as efficiently responding to and managing RHS Wisley internal and group bookings.
The role is responsible for ensuring all catering event details are collated in a timely manner, event details and supporting documents are accurate and distribution to operations team is consistent and within the agreed timelines. The planning aspect of the role involves taking the lead on co‑ordination of event logistics including staffing, equipment hires and supplier liaison. The role will also involve ensuring invoices are raised, and payments received in line with company payment terms. With a strong focus on service excellence, operational efficiency, and guest satisfaction, the Events Executive will oversee the operational delivery of the catering events planned to ensure they are delivered seamlessly and to the highest standard. You will lead the catering event set up, team briefings and oversee the food and beverage service.
This position requires exceptional organisational skills, attention to detail as well as solid knowledge and experience of food & beverage service within a conference and events setting. Customer focus and service excellence is key as well as an ability to thrive under pressure whilst multi‑taking.
Restaurant Associates is a leading premium hospitality provider with an ethos drawn from our history of fine and high‑quality dining in London and New York.
Within our venues team, we provide catering and hospitality services to some of the most iconic visitor attractions and destinations in the UK including the Imperial War Museum London, Glyndebourne Opera House, Knebworth House, Design Museum, Whipsnade Zoo and many more. Within these amazing venues we operate a host of bespoke cafés and restaurants, as well as delivering private events ranging from small meetings to large‑scale ground events of up to 1000 people. You can find a full list of our venues on our website.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, diverse, fun, and dynamic place to work with opportunities to collaborate with a wide range of teams plus a commitment to putting our people first. Restaurant Associates is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. As a business, we are committed to sustainability led practices and are proud to have achieved 3 stars with the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s Food Made Good Programme.
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