Events Lead - India

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in Bengaluru seeks aSenior Manager - Events to lead meeting and event planning service delivery and develop employees. You will drive customer relationships, ensure service quality, and oversee special projects requiring functional expertise within Facilities & Services.

The role emphasizes team building, performance improvement, and collaboration with clients and vendors to achieve operational excellence and targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree required.
• 8–10 years of overall experience in FM services/hospitality.
• Experience in meeting and event planning and client servicing.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate high-quality service delivery for Meeting & Event Planning for clients and partners.
• Manage team development, performance, and stakeholder communication to meet SLAs.
• Lead vendor negotiations, contract management, and supplier performance improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Vendor/people management

Strategies

Education

Bachelor/Master degree

Job description

Senior Manager - Events

Job Aim

Responsible for Meeting & Event Planning service delivery, career development of employees, management of any special projects that may require functional expertise and contribute to the overall Facilities and Services goals both financial and customer service.

Job Details

• Job type : Full time
• Reporting Manager : Account Director
• No of staff managed : Manager, AMs, Sr. Exec & Execs

Qualifications

• Qualification : Bachelor s Degree / Master s Degree
• Industry Type : FM Services, Hotel
• Overall Experience : 8 - 10 years
• Industry Experience : 6 - 8 years

Generic Skills

• Leadership
• Communication
• Vendor/people management
• Strategies

Behaviors

• Achievement level
• Team work
• Learning attitude & Positive thinking

Responsibilities

Operations Delivery

• Service Delivery

1.1 Customer Relations

• Facilitate the delivery of high quality support services to the partners, associate partners, managers, staff and guests of the Client.
• Contact customers on a regular basis to build relationships and ensure open communications.
• Develop deep understanding of customer s requirements and expectations.
• Communicate the services of Meeting & Event Planning to customers.
• Address customer concerns.

1.2 Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure service level agreements and quality standards are met.
• Complete metrics report to identify issues with service delivery effectiveness and efficiency.
• Update management on monthly accomplishments.
• Communicate performance results.
• Develop and execute action plans to improve survey results and communicate with Management.
• Research and implement service enhancements to meet evolving environment and customer needs.
• Participate in best practice research and use findings to improve service delivery
• Maintain open communications with other Meeting & Event planning solution providers in other geographies to build relationships and ensure seamless service delivery to customers and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Work with employees to increase skills and identify new ways to provide support to customers.
• Ensure vendor compliance with negotiated contracts and participate in new vendor selection and contract negotiation.
• Negotiate vendor contracts and select new vendors: monitor vendor performance and maintain vendor relations.

1.3 Team Building and Recognition

• Make contact with individual employees on a regular basis to build relationships and ensure open communications
• Promote and encourage mentoring relationships.
• Define team member responsibilities, work processes, and team goals, according to the Office Operations standards.
• Coach team members on how to solve problems and conflicts that may arise.
• Hold regular meetings to develop teamwork and communications, share best practices to build stronger service, recognize excellent performance, anticipate and resolve issues, and identify and implement continuous improvements.
• Organize team building activities to promote the interaction among team members and the development of teamwork skills.
• Identify and administer programs to recognize individual employee accomplishments and to reinforce teamwork.

1.4 Coverage

• Work with team to ensure coverage at all times due to team member absence and/or training.
• Monitor overtime, reporting, absence and address issues.
• Evaluate team workloads on an on-going basis.

2) Career Development

2.1 Career Management

• Ensure new employees are properly oriented and integrated to Accenture and their job.
• Address team training needs.
• Coach and counsel employees on skill development, career development and performance on an on-going basis
• Provide input and validate employees Professional Development Plans and facilitate the meeting of development objectives
• Provide input to employee GAT both inside Facilities and Services and for other Accenture employees.
• Review employee salaries to ensure consistency; obtain support for recommendations.
• Make employee promotion recommendations according to the company s promotion criteria.

2.2 Motivation and Morale

• Lead by example.
• Take active steps to improve employee satisfaction and retention.
• Coach team to develop and motivate through distribution of challenging assignments, special projects and variety of work
• Ensure team receives communications on a timely basis.
• Anticipate and proactively address employee concerns.
• Resolve issues escalated from employees on a timely basis.
• Create and administer programs that focus on Core Values of the company.

2.3 Recruiting

• Anticipate and identify open positions based on promotions, reassignments, and attrition.
• Identify and recommend employee skill, level, and salary for open positions.
• Contact Recruiting Representative to communicate hiring needs.
• Participate in interviewing process, ensuring hiring of high caliber staff.
• Make hiring decisions and agree on first date of employment.

2.4 Personnel Matters

• Discuss

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