Events & Groups Executive

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Job description

As an Events and Groups Executive you will have:

• Previous Event and/or Group rooms related experience is highly desirable
• Can demonstrate good organisational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Role Purpose:

To effectively promote all the hotel's facilities to the Conference, Event and Group rooms market to achieve the maximum sales revenue and client satisfaction for each event.

• Ensure that each enquiry and booking is handled efficiently from enquiry stage through to arrival, departure, billing and follow up.
• To maintain an accurate status of all enquiries and bookings and to ensure that the highest standard of administration is carried out for every group enquiry and booking.
• Enter all details into Infor SCS, reporting on all activity conducted with each enquiry and booking
• To be responsible for issuing contracts and paperwork, in line with Apex procedures

Key Skills / Entry Requirement:

Communication skills are essential for this role as you will be required to work closely with the Hotel operational teams as well as discussing each event with the client. To ensure the success of every event you will have a passion for delivering excellent customer service and be extremely organised. Absolute attention to detail, the ability to multi task and flexibility are required in response to changing client requests and the fast paced nature of the role.

You will be friendly and approachable; you will go the extra mile for our guests; you will provide highly consistent good service and you will lead by example.

Why join Apex Hotels?

We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It's these family values that help us take our guest experiences to the next level, where we provide a personalised service to all our guests that they'll want to share.

With 10 four-star hotels throughout the UK, we like to think of our hotels as members of the family, each with their own personality and style. Although each of our hotels has its own character, whatever one our guests choose to stay at, they'll get a great night's sleep and a warm welcome. The key to it all is you, our employees.

We also offer great benefits which include:

• Contributions to a pension scheme
• Critical illness cover
• 29 days holiday
• Access to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working
• 50% discount in our restaurants
• Guest experience overnight stay and dinner for 2 after 3 months
• Spa discount
• Referral bonus when your friends or family join the team
• Discounted room rates
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts with external companies only available to Apex team members
• Ongoing training and development

Putting your safety first

Apex Hotels have fully integrated all Covid19 measures into their properties to ensure peace of mind for all our Employees and Customers. You will be able to carry out your new role in a safe and clean environment with the additions of sanitiser, PPE requirements and distancing measures all as part of your daily routine.

Recruitment Process

Our recruitment process has been adapted to ensure we can hire safely while bringing in the best talent to join our Apex Family, so we have introduced video applications to give you the opportunity to let your personality shine through. Our interview process and Welcome Day induction process will be via Microsoft Teams, an online meeting channel, which you can access through your browser or its free to download the app on your laptop, tablet or mobile phone.

If you are interested, click apply. We look forward to hearing from you!

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