Conference Manager (Maternity Cover)
- Receiving and qualifying incoming groups /catering opportunities. - Tailor-making offers to clients on b2b and b2c level. Serve the customer by understanding their needs. Drive customer loyalty through excellent customer service throughout the sales and planning process. Build and strengthen relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings. - Understand the overall market - competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and how to sell strategically - Contract negotiations on various levels - Organizing and conducting client visits and show-arounds. - In cooperation with client, planning of event and preparation of detailed event orders in OPERA operation system. - Ensuring all bookings are entered correctly in the SCORPIO operation system. - Weekly conduction of internal briefing meetings with other departments to secure flawless communication. - Day to day running of the conference operations team