**Your day to day**
- Complete forecasts, plans, and productivity reports and help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans.
- Monitor hotels spend and always look for opportunities to optimize sales whilst minimizing waste.
- Negotiate sales prices within booking guidelines.
- Monitors competitors' activities and assists in marketing intelligence.
- Sells to new, existing and prospective customers considering goals set forth in the sales strategy, negotiating optimum rate for the benefit of the business.
- Services existing business through management of account bases.
- Ensure the whole client experience successful and memorable and act as the brand ambassador and key contact throughout their journey.
- Build long term relationship with planners and hosts to increase loyalty to the brand.
- Arrange agreed details of meeting / event e.g. room set-ups, staging, lighting.
- Conduct pre-event and post-event meetings with clients and catering colleagues to identify improvements to the guest experience.
- Welcome the group and conduct the 60' meeting brief prior the start of the meeting / session.
- Enable high productivity whilst maximizing downtime.
- Relate to business needs and make sure team prioritizes the things that help our guests get their business done.
- Enable quality downtime by providing relevant recommendations that will help host and attendees recharge and relax throughout the day.
**What we need from you**
- Work based in Jakarta.
- Strong knowledge of local business & understand business trend required.
- A confident communicator with strong interpersonal strong skills
- Business language and tools acumen
- Bachelor's Degree/higher education qualification/equivalent in hospitality or related field
- 3+ years total experience in a catering setting or related field
- Direct supervisory experience over a sales/catering team, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Must speak local language(s)
At IHG, we've made a promise. As one of the world's leading hotel groups, we're here to deliver True Hospitality for Good. Making our guests and colleagues feel welcome, cared for, recognised and respected - wherever they are in the world. Want to be part of the journey?
Join Crowne Plaza one of the largest and best loved premium hotel brands in the world. With more than 420 hotels in diverse locations globally Crowne Plaza is the perfect base to connect on business, pleasure or a blend of both. We've thoughtfully designed our spaces to encourage, support and celebrate great connections. We're also big on meetings and events, a trusted and valued partner for connecting both domestic and global groups alike.
Our branded service style 'Dare to Connect' is crafted for connection. Designed for humans not nameless guests or colleagues. Still professional but touches guests on an emotional level. Where colleagues take their initiative and use their personality because they make a crucial difference in the guest's experience. The role of every colleague at Crowne Plaza is to create memorable emotional connections and the job of every leader is to create an environment where that can happen.
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.