Assistant Events Planning Manager

Responsibilities

Identifying market needs and trends in Catering, Wedding, Social, Conference, Corporate businesses, defining the target markets, review direct competition and ensure complete awareness by all competitor’s activities, strategies, and promotion
Develop existing business and solicit new catering business through catering lead generation and catering sales marketing, solicit new catering customers through traditional and non-traditional techniques
Compilation key financial reports for business analysis, event & catering budget business plan, regular budget and forecast reports, team production tracking/management
Conduct market research on competitors’ analysis and market trends
Monitor competitor set activities and intelligence sources to identify sources of business and prospect new leads/accounts to exceed fair market share performance
Follow through the entire event / group from the handover file from sales till the completion of the event / departure of the group

Requirements

Bachelor’ degree or above
Minimum 2 years of experience in Catering position
Aggressive and positive working attitude
Solid experience in event and wedding planning within hotel / resort area, extensive knowledge and background in wedding planning
In-depth industry knowledge
Able to manage the identification and resolution of day-to-day problems related to event/wedding requests
Excellent Mandarin and English written and verbal communication skills
Candidate with more experience will be consider as Events Planning Manager