Group Coordinator

Hotelprofessionals - Movenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance

Pension contributions

Uniform & meals

Room discounts

Birthday day off

Staff outings

Job summary

Mövenpick Amsterdam City Centre is seeking a Group Coordinator who serves as the first contact for group bookings, handling requests from A to Z and turning them into memorable experiences for our guests. You discuss wishes, prepare competitive offers, finalize contracts, and coordinate with the Conference & Events team.

Based in Amsterdam, you will work Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:00, and collaborate with reception and housekeeping to ensure smooth operations.

Qualifications

• Fluent written and spoken English required; Dutch preferred.

Responsibilities

• Handle group bookings from A to Z, including incoming requests and contract finalization.
• Prepare competitive cost estimates and group offers, and finalize arrangements.
• Process rooming lists from Conference & Events in the reservation system.
• Maximise revenue through upselling and pricing strategies.
• Welcome accounts and arrange site inspections, acting as the link between clients and hotel operations.
• Manage administrative tasks and communicate agreements to hotel departments.
• Apply cancellations and no-show policies and conduct after-sales follow-up.

Skills

Fluent English

Job description

At a unique location in one of Amsterdam's major hotel and event venues, you are faced with a new challenge. As a Group Coordinator, you are the first contact for group bookings and play a key role in creating unforgettable experiences for our guests for our hotels. From handling and selling various requests to discussing the specific wishes and requirements of our clients in detail, you know exactly how to exceed expectations. At Mövenpick we make moments, do you?

Be limitless

From approaching potential customers to maintaining existing relationships. That is what you take care of. Selling group reservations energizes you. You handle the request from A to Z. You create a plan, arrange the contract, and ensure that all other related matters run smoothly. You motivate yourself and make sure that the business comes in. Successful group reservations are your goal, and you keep this in mind. This also means that you sometimes give tours in the hotel and to work closely with the organization and ensuring that reception and housekeeping staff receive the right instructions. If you do your job well, along with your colleagues, the booking becomes an experience for the customers and, therefore, a great success. There are no limits to your abilities. In addition, you will be:

• Responsible for group bookings from A to Z, including:
• Handling incoming requests.
• Discussing wishes and requirements with the client, preparing competitive cost estimates and group offers, finalizing contracts, and making definitive arrangements.
• Processing the rooming lists from the Conference & Events department in the reservation system.
• Maximizing revenue through upselling and pricing strategies.
• Being responsible for welcoming accounts and arranging/conducting site inspections.
• Acting as the link between the organization and its clients.
• Managing administrative tasks, such as processing agreements and communicating them to colleagues in the hotel’s operational departments.
• Applying hotel policies regarding cancellations, no-shows, etc;
• Being responsible for after-sales follow-up.

In this position, you will work Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00. You will work for Mövenpick Amsterdam and Mövenpick The Hague and based in Mövenpick Amsterdam.

Proud to present

Mövenpick: the place to enjoy life. Inside, we create a space for our guests to enjoy by relaxing at the bar with a delicious cocktail or a creamy cappuccino. In our restaurants, you can discover the most delicious special dishes. We are originally from Switzerland, and we carry this luxurious gastronomic hospitality with us. ‘Enjoying life to the fullest.’ That is our mantra for our guests, but also for you as an employee.

And you provide that experience with a team of six to ten colleagues in our beautiful 4-star hotel located in Amsterdam overlooking the river IJ. With a beautiful atmosphere in our team, we help each other during busy moments so everything runs smoothly. You will work in a hotel that works together with the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, a total combined conference space of over 1900 m2, including 11 modern and spacious conference and directors’ rooms. Through the emergence of ijVENUES, Amsterdam’s new exhibition centre, everything only becomes bigger and better. On a lovely, sunny day, you can choose between a 10-minute walk or a 5-minute cycle ride from the central station. Or you can hop on the tram from the other side of our hotel. In short: we have it all.

Don’t work. Do what you love instead

You have a bubbly personality full of enthusiasm and drive. You What makes you happy is working with a large team and feeling the rush of achieving good results. You are a driven sales person, very precise when it comes to administration, you are enthusiastic about working with numbers. You keep an overview of small and large requests, and you don't like to say `no’ to a request "Yes, we can" sounds better to you.

You must have:

• Fluent written and spoken knowledge of the English language, and preferably the Dutch language as well.

We offer

Of course, we want you to have an optimal experience at Mövenpick. That’s why we are offering:

• A monthly gross salary of between €2.505 and €3.032 in accordance with scale 5 of the Collective Labour Agreement for the Dutch hospitality and catering industry;
• A contract of 38 hours per week.
• 25 leave days and time off for any overtime.
• Extra day off during your birthday month.
• A travel allowance up to €200 per month, on the basis of the actual number of kilometres.
• A night-shift allowance of 20% and a Sunday allowance of 5%.
• Pension contributions with the Horeca & Catering pension fund.
• National and international opportunities for growth and (cross) training opportunities.
• A uniform, laundry service and meals.
• Discounts on rooms, food and drink at Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts & Accor hotels.
• Enjoy an overnight stay with dinner and breakfast in the hotel where you work at with feel like a guest Mövenpick Experience.
• Recruitment bonus for a new colleague.
• 50% F&B discount at various hotels in Amsterdam.
• Various staff outings.

Vaardigheden

• Er is geen minimale opleiding vereist
• Je beheerst Engels

Wat wij bieden

Contract: fulltime

Uren: Fulltime

Dienstverband: fulltime

Type vacature: Intern