Wedding & Social Events Manager

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Working with us provides great benefits, including:

• Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform 'Wagestream,' a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
• Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
• 50% off Food & Beverage at all our Hotels & F&B Venues
• Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
• Retail, Cinema & Leisure Discounts
• Development Opportunities via our 'Grow with us' initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
• Monthly 'Star of the Month' Awards
• Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
• 'Recommend a Friend' Incentive - Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
• Access to a confidential 'Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)' available 24/7, 365 days per year.
• Pension Scheme
• Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

About the role...

Within this role your main focus will be Weddings & Social Events management, and you'll be responsible for driving and developing weddings and social events business into the hotel by proactive and reactive sales activity, supporting the hotel in meeting and exceeding budgeted weddings and social events revenue targets.

You'll organise, from start to finish, all client weddings, meetings and events, ensuring their experience is

memorable from start to finish. You'll act as both a hotel and Cairn Group ambassador and trusted partner - you'll connect internal teams to deliver a seamless experience for planners, hosts and meeting attendees.

Working alongside the Director of Sales you will lead, develop and implement selected marketing & sales tasks ensuring the highest level of customer service at all times.

About you...

• Possess excellent communication You'll need to be a good co-operator with a professional, warm, trusting and friendly approach, reacting to change in a positive way
• Well informed about the market and industry
• Ability to build and maintain long lasting relationships with existing and new clients
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to stay calm under pressure, adapting your approach to complete routine and non-routine tasks
• High attention to detail and accuracy - great at managing one's own time
• Have a creative and innovative approach
• Great team working skills whilst being comfortable and able to work alone

About us...

At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

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