Assistant Manager Catering Sales

Job description

Key tasks

 To create and prepare banqueting proposals for potential customers, ensuring that all likely additional costs relating to the event have been assessed accurately and communicated.
 Maintain and accurately keep updated, customer records.
 Efficiently respond to all customers enquires in a polite and timely manner.
 Work closely and effectively with the Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences Hospitality Team, in order to ensure that all catering contracts are delivered to a high standard.
 Create and prepare accurate catering proposals for potential customers, ensuring that the catering offer matches the profile of the event in terms of product selection and budget.
 Provide weekly and monthly sales activity reports.
 Develop and deliver sales presentations to potential customers.
 Produce clear and accurate Event Catering Schedules within set deadlines
 Adopt a clear and strategic approach to catering sales by selling a catering offer that drives up spend per head, while keeping operational costs to a minimum.
 Organize and attend client meetings both internally and externally
 Support the Venue sector sales team if required, in terms of fielding enquires in their absence or taking messages.
 The duties of this post may require some weekend or evening work.
 This job description is not exhaustive and the role necessitates flexibility to take on other responsibilities which are at the discretion of the Sales Director

At Novotel, we grow faster

Feel fully responsible, be autonomous, adaptable, professional, have a love of adventure and a desire to stretch your limits: that’s the Novotel spirit .
An international brand with a network of 400 hotels in 60 countries, Novotel’s success is due to the professionalism and enthusiasm of its 30 000 employees who have been embodying the brand’s ideals for over 40 years.

DNA of the brand, innovation is at the heart of the promise made to employees: "At Novotel, we grow faster" . To transform this promise into reality, Novotel has implemented a unique human resources policy declined around five main professional career paths. Novotel accompanies each employee throughout their career. Integration, geographic mobility, bridging provision, skills development… everyone is given the opportunity to progress quickly and go further. Impossible is not Novotel.

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Desired profile

Skills

Level of Education Bachelor / Licence
Areas of study Sales
Professional experiences 3 to 5 years
Languages essential English (Fluent)

Essential and optional requirements

·  Excel
·  Power Point
·  Word
·  Micros
·  Opéra