Events Manager, Surrey
£20-25,000, depending on experience
This is a varied role covering event administration, organisation and management requiring a self-starter with initiative and eye for detail.
Excellent organisational and communication skills are imperative.
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
- Planning annual events timetable and action plan to ensure events budget is met.
- Support the Directors and General Manager as and when required.
- Act as the first point for enquiries concerning the Academy and our events
- Manage and administrate all event aspects across the business.
- Manage multiple events at one time.
- Collate and report on feedback from events worked on, ensuring appropriate modifications are made for future events.
- Ensure efficient budget monitoring.
- Oversee customer relationship management, ensuring members, friends and sponsor queries are being responded to in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Ensure site visits take place at venues/new facilities at venues to ensure the best possible on-the-day experience for guests.
- Secure sponsors and venues to enable events to be run within budget.
- Research new venues/hospitality experiences to ensure the events offered are varied, innovative, fitting to the specification and within our budget.
- Update the ‘contacts’ database and ‘event attendance’ reports, ensuring these are updated after every event.
- Assist the General Manager & Membership Administrator in achieving the Academy’s strategic objectives.
Types of Events:
- Training events including master-classes, tutorials and seminars
- Annual dinners
- Annual competitions
- AFW involvement with industry exhibitions
- Board meetings and AGM
Personal Specification:
Essential:
- Excellent event management skills with the ability to administrate and run events in the build-up and on-the day
- Excellent organisational skills and outstanding attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills
- Creative thinker – ability to think proactively and deliver solutions to anticipated problems
- Must be very hands on – will be undertaking event administration
- Excellent negotiator
- Self-starter
- Ability to work independently but as part of a small team
- Proactive, can-do attitude
The ‘ideal’ candidate will have:
- A sound knowledge of computer skills particularly the Microsoft Office suite of software programmes
- An excellent telephone manner
- A willingness and eagerness to learn and develop themselves
- Sound communication skills both oral and written
- Experience of an office environment
- Willingness to accept direction and instructions
To meet these requirements the candidate will ideally be:
- Aware of the professional bodies and trade associations pertaining to the Hotel and Catering Industry
- Smartly dressed and well groomed
- Confident and will have developed the social skills and personality to get on well with people of all status levels and ages
…and will:
- Be keen and hard working
- Live within comfortable commuting distance of Sutton
To apply for this position please forward your CV to sophie@acfws.org quoting reference AFWEM0807 or post to: Academy of Food & Wine, Trinity Court, 34 West Street, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1SH.
Job courtesy of The Tourism Society.
