Event Sales & Planning Executive

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HYATT REGENCY ZADAR

The hotel will be located at Zadar's landmark Maraska building on the waterfront and will be within walking distance of the city's famousSea Organ, an experimental instrument that plays music through the movement of sea waves. Hyatt Regency Zadar will be a great launching pad for travelers visiting Croatia's Dalmatian coast, the Roman and Venetian ruins, and famous national parks, including Plitvice Lakes, Zadar Archipelago and Kornati National Park.

Hyatt Regency Zadar will deliver on the modern expectations of today's travelers and meeting planners. The 130-room hotel will feature authentic food and beverage offerings that will build off the Hyatt Regency brand's history of culinary excellence. The hotel will serve as the perfect venue for a variety of events such as weddings, social banquets, exhibitions, meetings, and conferences. Additionally, the hotel will offer a fitness center, spa and an outdoor swimming pool.

At Hyatt, we believeour guests select Hyatt because of our caring and attentive associates who are focused on providing authentic hospitality and meaningful experiences to each and every guest.Hyatt is a place where high expectations aren't just met-they're exceeded. It's a place of outstanding rewards, where talent opens doors to exciting challenges in the hospitality industry.

International's Corporate Strategies and brand standards, whilst meeting employee, guest and owner expectations. The Event Sales & Planning Executive is responsible to act as a sales specialist and be responsible to cover the relationship building and account management, as well as event management.

• Handling all leads from the sales team and direct client inquiries, regarding group and banqueting requests.

• Following all Hyatt Events Standards for answering phone enquiries, handling email enquiries, preparing proposals and contracts, handling of rates, conducting Hotel Tours, planning Events, creating Event Confirmations, Event execution and Event follow-up.

• Maintaining a close working relationship with the client from the initial proposal sending, to onsite liaison between hotel and organizer.

• Developing professional conference and incentive sales proposals that win business.

• Having the strong hotel product knowledge and be well versed in up-selling techniques.

• Ensuring correct booking procedures are applied in relation to group room allocations, meeting set-ups, catering terms and contractual agreements.

• Carrying out site inspections, sales conversations, representation of the company.

• Planning of details of events and room reservation, including consultations and detail arrangements, as well as up- and cross-selling.

• Handover of events to the operational departments.

• Use of the various hotel systems, including Envision, Opera and Reserve.

• Maintaining complete and supported records of all sales agreements, contracts and quotes for the hotel as per hotel's procedures.

• Shared responsibility for reaching business goals through the optimal utilization of our capacities.

• Achieving targets as set by the Director of Sales & Marketing

Qualifications
If you bring minimum 2 years of work experience in a similar position, and an overflowing passion for people, we look very much forward to hearing from you!