- Immediately Available Permanent Role
- Sydney CBD Location
- $120,000 - $140,000 plus super
The Company:
A major hospitality and catering group are looking for a National Director of Events to manage a team of 8 Events Managers and manage this sector of the business. This organisation has a great reputation in the space managing multiple venues, handling external catering for events and working on some of the largest outdoor events in Australia.
The Role:
The National Director of Events role will report into the Director of Sales and manage a team. The role will be responsible for ensuring all team members are managing their portfolio of events, hitting targets and all clients requirements are met.
Key responsibilities will include;
- Management of a team of senior events professionals
- Leadership and mentoring of the team to challenge them to the next level
- Great relationship building skills
- Ensuring the team meets all their KPIs and targets
- Managing the budgets and profit and loss for the team
- Managing senior level client relationships
- Management of end to end large scale events
- Up-selling all client services to existing and new clients at all times
The ideal background would be someone who has leadership experience from a hospitality, catering, convention centre or hotel background. Someone that has managed teams of events professionals and has a passion for food and beverage and the hospitality industry as a whole.
- Extensive experience as a leader within the spaces mentioned above
- Experience managing large scale food and beverage events
- Exceptional client and supplier relationship management skills
- Be highly motivated and results driven with exceptional organisational skills
- Strong stakeholder management and engagement experience
- Creative with an ability to write concepts, content understanding, scripts and develop proposals
- Must love events and have a strong passion for events culture
- Excellent communication, presentation and time management skills
- Energetic, enthusiastic, innovative, inspiring and results driven
- Be proactive and able to make decisions
- Sound budget management experience
- Sound judgement and decision making
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This role doesn't fit but you are interested in Events positions in Australia, then please register your resume through our website: www.apexeventrecruitment.com.au
Please note that this role will be subject to background checks and you must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.