Sandra Garcia Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Managed all aspects of venue operations, including sales, events, and staffing at Ybor City Museum Event and wedding venue in Tampa, Florida.• Coordinated venue bookings and schedules, ensuring smooth running of events and maintaining health and safety standards.• Developed marketing strategies, oversaw financial transactions, and established relationships with vendors and local authorities.

Tampa, Florida, Us

From private, intimate affairs to large corporate functions event and catering sales specialist. Collaborate with the planning and execution of Gasparilla Tampa (over 3,000 attendees), TGH appreciation days (over 1,000 attendees), Air fest (over 2,000 attendees) and counting.

Coral Gables, Gb

Milan, Italy, It

Overview: Recruited to ignite company growth and catalyze immediate positive change as a core member of the leadership team. Fostered and maintained a solid partnership with the Store/Center Manager in coordinating daily operations encompassing selling, coaching, merchandising talent acquisition, and retail excellence. Notable Achievements:• Fueled business development opportunities and identified wins in achieving both personal and corporate goals by leveraging reporting tools to maximize positive sales outcomes.• Architected and built an exceptional and inspirational work environment that promotes brand integrity.• Participated in professional development plans to optimize competence and expertise while also forging solid rapport with clients through interactive engagements and feedback to improve service delivery.• Established and maintained productive relationships and open communication links with the store to promote collaborative team efforts in increasing sales, ensuring each employee accomplish respective targets.• Provided oversight for operations within the sales floor and also coached teams to exceed clients' expectation in a fast-paced environment• Played an instrumental role in exceeding targets and key performance indicators resulting from stellar success in increasing conversion ratio to 6/10, which increased sales over the marked goal during the process when the store was 30% short in accomplishing annual objectives.• Achieved benchmarking results in optimizing operational hours and generating incentive budget to the store.

Coordinate and arrange transportation, lodging, insurance, and additional travel amenities for clients, tailored to their specific requirements, financial considerations, preferred dates, and travel objectives.Manage and keep up to date clients database, office certifications and financial records, schedule for events such as networking events, FAM trips, industry trends and global travel updates.Provide assistance with group travel logistics for educational institutions, organizing and planning tours and field trips, coordinating group flights, accommodations, and activities.

Overview: Aligned the organization for growth by providing overarching support to propel positive results for every event in collaboration with the sales manager. Notable Achievements:• Launched new initiative to increase service delivery rate as regards overseeing final counts, event order, and implementing workflow changes in collaboration with kitchen staff.• Turned around poor performance by leading teams to serve guests with the optimal standard levels while accommodating their needs, maximizing satisfaction rate, and adhering to brand policies.• Provided efficient follow-up on all events updated on the system after successful execution.

Planned, developed and managed events according to customer’s objectives and requirements, budget and agendas. Consulted with customers to determine special needs and details to assure the success of the event, attend networking and special events to promote venue, maintain optimal relations with guest, vendors and hospitality personnel, delegate duties as needed and maintain communication with staff to assure guest satisfaction and maximize revenue.

Schedule and planned social and entertainment events, oversaw set ups, budgets, menus, gifts, celebrity appearances, event staff and everything related to the event to meet and exceed clients, customers and patrons expectations.Planned and designed events accordingly, recommend and communicate with staff and clients to assure a successful day.

Chertsey, Surrey, Gb

Assisting the senior Event Coordinator for the food and beverage division with the proper and detailed execution of functions. Ability to visualize and understand clients ideas and transform them into reality. Staff managing to perfection to accomplish the goals and maximize clients-venue satisfaction.

Managing staff of 10-14 employees to achieve daily and monthly goals. Responsible for daily operations and store visuals when necessary.Supervised weekly shipments and stock necessities according to sales needs. Clerical duties, daily store reports and scheduling.