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Posted Dec 7, 2019

Conference & Events Sales Manager M/F

Job Number EMEAA14543

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Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa » Switzerland » Geneva » Geneva

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Description

About us

At Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, we embrace the new world of business and understand that Modern business travelers want a hotel (and a hotel team) that understands and supports them, helping at every turn.

And, if you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand. The avant-gardeInterContinental Genève embodies the refreshing, elevated perspective on luxury art de vivre in the world’s City of Peace.

Your day to day

Join us as a Conference &Events Sales Manager M/F for both brands in Geneva.

 

For this key position, reporting to the Director of Conference & Events Sales, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Ensure the sale of conference space and facilities in both hotels in accordance with the establishments’ sales strategies to maximize revenue.


• Handle important customer requests in a personalized way and formulate proposals adapted to the requests, to ensure quality product delivery and customer satisfactions.


• Handle negotiations, site inspections and contracts with clients for requests from 10 rooms or more, with or without an event.

• Communicate and forward all information related to the client's request to the Events & Catering Manager and Group Coordinator and ensure that all details of the event/group are entered in the handover form.


• Participate in revenue optimization by upselling.

• Assist the Conference & Events Sales Director in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.

What we need from you

With a degree in higher education in Hospitality Management or from a Business School, you have minimum 2 to 3 years of experience and/or 1 to 2 years of experience as a Manager within a hotel establishment of the same category (4- or 5- star) and capacity (+200 rooms). You have previously worked with Delphi and Opera.

You are fluent in English and French. Mastering a third foreign language of one of our target markets (Germany, China, India, Italy, Middle East, Netherlands, Russia) is highly desirable.

Highly responsible and reliable, you are an efficient team player and are acknowledged for your excellent relationship with your team and your clients. Well-organized, result- and business-oriented, you are used to work in a fast-paced environment and you have already demonstrated a high level of adaptability, proactivity and dynamism.

 

This position is to be filled as of January 2020 and opened for Swiss citizens and EU passport holders.

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

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