Conference & Events Sales Executive - QT Auckland | Full-time

EVT Group; Auckland; In loco; NZD 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

50% off dining & stays across EVTホテルs

Movie tickets discounts

Seasonal perks at Thredbo

Rapid career growth

Paid parental leave

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EVT Auckland is seeking a Conference & Events Sales Executive to drive revenue across inbound enquiries, conferences, events and group bookings at QT Auckland. You will own key client accounts, negotiate complex deals and collaborate with hotel operations to deliver seamless experiences.

Join a premium hospitality team with strong career growth, mentoring opportunities and a dynamic Daymaker culture across EVT’s portfolio in New Zealand and beyond.

Competenze

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrated success converting high value conference and event opportunities.
• Proven ability to negotiate and close complex sales opportunities.
• Knowledge of hotel operating systems such as Opera Cloud and iVvy.
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to analyse sales performance and identify growth opportunities.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong presentation, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting team members (desirable)

Mansioni

• Receive and convert inbound enquiries while identifying opportunities to maximise event, accommodation and ancillary revenue.
• Drive proactive sales activity to generate new conference, event and group business.
• Own key client accounts, developing strategies for repeat business, account growth and reactivation of lost opportunities.
• Lead conference and event processes through to the day of the event, including BEO meetings and handovers, working closely with operations and F&B.
• Build relationships with key clients, industry partners, PCOs and business event organisations, including hotel site inspections and entertaining.
• Mentor junior team members and act as the subject matter expert for conference and events sales.

Conoscenze

Conference sales

Event sales

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Mentoring

Strumenti

Opera Cloud

iVvy

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Conference & Events Sales Executive - QT Auckland | Full-time

About EVT

About EVT: QT Auckland is part of EVT, one of Australasia’s market-leading experience creators offering careers that can take you wherever you want to go across entertainment, ventures, and travel. In a world of cookie cutter experiences, here at EVT we believe in changing the game. It’s why we all call ourselves Daymakers: each day is a chance to add the wow factor for our customers and continually grow in our own careers.

QT Hotels & Resorts is EVT’s premium lifestyle hotel brand, with locations in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Pioneers behind the philosophy of ‘unexpected and unrequested’, with every guest engagement presenting an opportunity to delight, and every QT property inspired by local influence with signature quirk. And our people? With personalities as diverse as each property, individuality is more than encouraged.

EVT has an endless range of roles and career paths to explore across over 140 entertainment experiences like Event Cinemas and Moonlight Cinemas, 150 award winning restaurants and bars, and 80+ hotels, including QT, Rydges, Atura, LyLo, Independent Collection and Australia’s most loved year round alpine resort, Thredbo. Our ventures include a ~$2.3B property portfolio and hotel management, just to name a few. Once you’re in, there are no limits on where your career could take you.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive and convert inbound enquiries while identifying opportunities to maximise event, accommodation and ancillary revenue
• Drive proactive sales activity to generate new conference, event and group business
• Own key client accounts, developing strategies for repeat business, account growth and reactivation of lost opportunities
• Lead conference and event processes through to the day of the event, including BEO meetings and handovers, working closely with operations and F&B
• Build relationships with key clients, industry partners, PCOs and business event organisations, including hotel site inspections and entertaining
• Mentor junior team members and act as the subject matter expert for conference and events sales

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role
• Demonstrated success converting high value conference and event opportunities
• Proven ability to negotiate and close complex sales opportunities
• Knowledge of hotel operating systems such as Opera Cloud and iVvy
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse sales performance and identify growth opportunities
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong presentation, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting team members (desirable)

How You Work

• Daymaker ethos: no one’s too big for the small things.
• Owner’s mindset: acts on data and feedback; ships improvements.
• Resilient and solutions-focused: stays calm, moves fast.
• Growth mindset: learns, shares, and levels up others.

Perks from Day One

As part of EVT, you unlock Elevate Perks from your first day. Parity for all levels, no ivory towers.

• 50% off dining and stays across EVT hotels, including QT, Rydges, Atura, LyLo and more.
• $2 movie tickets plus discounts on Gold Class, Moonlight Cinema and Candy Bar.
• Seasonal perks at Thredbo.
• Rapid career growth across our hotel and entertainment network.
• Paid parental leave; community and volunteering opportunities.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and review applications as they come in, so don’t wait! We can’t wait to see the places your career will go with EVT.