Catering Sales Manager

Makeready Llc; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO exchange

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Pet insurance

401k

Student loan repayment

Job summary

The Junto, part of Makeready, in Columbus, OH seeks a Catering Sales Manager to drive revenue through proactive lead generation, client relationship management, and creative menu collaborations. This role focuses on profitable catering programs for a modern hospitality concept in a landmark Columbus venue.

You will partner with clients to tailor menus, oversee events, and forecast catering budgets, ensuring exceptional service and repeat business in a fast-paced hotel setting.

Qualifications

• Prior experience required
• Guest-first mentality; thoughtful and approachable
• Thorough understanding of the property's culinary and beverage options
• Highly organized with a laser focus on detail

Responsibilities

• Generate sales leads by actively pursuing new business opportunities to meet revenue goals
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships to drive repeat and referral business
• Work closely with clients to create tailored menus that are profitable for the hotel
• Oversee the successful execution of catering events
• Manage and forecast catering sales budgets and forecasts

Skills

Lead generation

Relationship building

Menu pricing

Budget forecasting

Event coordination

Job description

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Sales & Marketing Full Time The Junto, Columbus, OH, US

Salary Range: $70,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

The Junto is a modern-day embodiment of Ben Franklin and his club of the same name. His “club for mutual improvement” brought together people from diverse backgrounds to discuss issues and ideas of the time while enjoying life. With an emphasis on public gathering spaces, our hotel gives visitors, locals, entrepreneurs, and artists alike a place to come together, exchange ideas, and inspire one another. The Junto will be both a destination and a landmark of the area, helping to define and add value to the future of Columbus. This business professional is all about developing relationships. A successful catering sales manager finds conventional and creative ways of marketing to drive business and develop positive relationships that keep clients coming back. Organized and detail-oriented, this individual knows that the smallest touches often make the biggest impact.

Requested Tasks:

• Generate sales leads by actively pursuing new business opportunities to meet revenue goals
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships to drive repeat and referral business
• Work closely with clients to create tailored menus that are profitable for the hotel
• Oversee the successful executive of catering events
• Manage and forecast catering sales budgets and forecasts

Requested Capabilities:

• Prior experience required
• Guest-first mentality; thoughtful and approachable
• Thorough understanding of the property's culinary and beverage options
• Highly organized with a laser focus on detail

As part of the Makeready collection, we proudly offer a variety of thoughtful benefits and perks for eligible team members including accommodating PTO/PTO exchange, medical/dental/vision benefits, maternity/paternity leave, pet insurance, company-matched dependent care & 401k, student loan repayment program and a wide range of additional ancillary benefits. The health, happiness and well-being of our team is our top priority. We take pride in our Guiding Principles to help define how we successfully work together. We follow them not out of duty but live by them instinctively.

Makeready LLC and its affiliated entities are proud to encourage and support an environment where everyone can be a successful team member as their true independent self. We are an equal opportunity workplace and employer that does not discriminate based on race, color, disability, gender/sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. We are committed to building a team and a workplace where we are all able to be successful based solely on our individual qualifications, experience, abilities and job performance.