Events Coordinator
- Employer
- Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club
- Location
- Ashdown Park, Forest Row
- Salary
- £23,000 per annum plus service charge*
- Closing date
- 7 Feb 2023
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- Sector
- Hospitality & Catering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Overview
Monday to Friday and Saturdays on a rota basis
A wonderful opportunity to join a small friendly events sales team in the hear of Ashdown Forest as an Events Coordinator. The role will deal proactively with all sales enquiries including weddings, social functions and conferences, ensuring conversion of these. You will meet and build relationships with customers, produce event proposals, contracts and invoices as required, taking ownership of projects and seeing them through to execution. Working as part of a team, you must have excellent organisational skills and the ability to work with a range of departments to ensure continuity of service for the customer.
Key Attributes/Experience
- Experience in an events role, ideally within a luxury venue
- Excellent communication skills
- Sales focused with particular aptitude for closing and upselling
- Administration & IT skills, including computer literacy and familiarity with database/booking packages
- Attention to detail, professional manner and good understanding of confidentiality issues
- Able to use initiative and remain calm under pressure
- Opera PMS experience is a bonus
Company
HEIGHTS OF LUXURY IN THE HEART OF EAST SUSSEX
Surrounded by the Ashdown Forest, which according to the famous children’s author, A. A. Milne, is the woodland that inspired his Winnie The Pooh stories, the Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club offers the heights of luxury in the heart of East Sussex. Country house hotels in Sussex don’t come more luxurious, or offer such a magnificent combination of elegance, style, award winning dining and outstanding business and leisure facilities.
Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club is part of the Elite Hotels group.
Along with a thriving career, they also offer these amazing benefits:
- Commitment to pay above the living wage
- Share of monthly service charges
- Career development with accredited training providers
- Live in accommodation available
- Meals on duty
- Uniform provided
- Enjoy £60 room rates across the Elite Hotels collection
- Advantageous "Friends & Family" rates at Elite Hotels
- 30% discount on all food and beverage
- 30% discount on all spa treatments
- Long service awards
- Enhanced holiday after 2 years service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous "refer a friend" bounty incentive
- Employee Recognition Programme
- Website
- http://www.ashdownpark.com/
- Telephone
- 01342 824988
- Location
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Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club
Wych Cross
Forest Row
East Sussex
RH18 5JR
GB
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