I am seeking employment as a meeting planner.
Successfully managed daily sales and event planning operations, sold meeting space, catering, and sleeping rooms to a diverse client base. • Collaborated with corporate and social clientele to plan and coordinate events and ensure project specifications and requests were accomplished before, during, and after event execution • Solicited new business and expanded client base while maintaining top 10 client accounts, providing exceptional customer satisfaction that contributed significantly to increasing catering revenue and overall hotel revenue through word-of-mouth referrals • Utilized database management software to maintain accurate documentation of all events • Responsible for handling all billing and money collection for catering sales totaling over $1M
Charged with establishing a new on-campus catering department, building and maintaining business relationships with academic clientele to drive long-term growth and success. • Developed and implemented necessary forms, policies, and procedures for the catering department • Administered proposals, contracts, and correspondence for special events and meetings, utilizing strong selling skills and event planning expertise to tactfully close sales with clients • Managed all human resources protocols, including hiring and training new catering staff
Responsible for coordinating all aspects of high-volume speaker bureau promotional programs from inception to completion • Handled program execution for both live and virtual programming using Adobe Connect and Zoom virtual platforms for pharmaceutical events including speaker communications and scheduling, travel arrangements, venue negotiation/contraction and execution within budget and according to compliance standards, audio-visual negotiating/contracting, invitation development, attendee confirmation • Executed the highest program count on the speaker bureau team • Liaise between sales representatives, regional managers, and physicians while handling confidential information • Controlled all post-program paperwork including speaker expense forms, material collection, and program reconciliation • Maintained database of scheduled events and client interaction
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