Event Sales Executive - InterContinental Perth

About us

InterContinental Hotels Group is one of the world's leading hotel companies. Present in around 100 countries, we have over 160 million guests staying in 889,000 rooms in more than 6,300 hotels per year. You'll know some or all of our 20 hotel brands. They are some of the best known and most popular in the world including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Regent, Six Senses, Hotel Indigo, Voco, as well as Kimpton Hotels.

As the world's largest company of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental brand.

InterContinental Perth City Centre's meetings and events space, called Gallery Meeting Suites delivers a fresh take on traditional meeting rooms and conference venues. The Gallery Meetings Suites at InterContinental Perth offer bespoke spaces ideal for creating and delivering incredible meetings and events. With four purpose-built meeting rooms bathed in natural light and comfortable, contemporary furnishings, the venue provides a relaxed environment for guests attending your event.

View our intimate and unique event space here: https://perth.intercontinental.com/meetings-events/

Due to an internal transfer of the current incumbent, we are looking for a full time Event Sales Executive to join our team. If you want to professionally grow, then this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

Your day to day

As full time Event Sales Executive, partnering closely with the Business Development Manager, you are responsible for securing and delivering personalised meetings and events for Gallery Meeting Suites and our various Restaurant & Bar venues. More specifically this includes:

• Proactively source new business in collaboration with Business Development Manager. Including building relationships with new, existing and prospective clients with a focus on securing business in line with the goals set forth in the sales strategy. 
• Responsible for all event order preparation, reporting and client account management.
• Co-ordination and hosting of client site inspections to deliver a unique insight and offering for our event spaces.
• Tailoring guest specific requirements to ensure delivery of the event is workable within hotel event spaces.
• Liaise with clients to provide efficient and detailed proposals, responding in a timely manner for all enquiries.
• Thorough communication between clients and all relevant internal hotel departments pre and post event.
• Co-ordination of meeting and event material, i.e. conference kits, and any other requirements in collaboration with Operational and Marketing Team.
• Maintenance of conference database of key contacts/clients. 
• Willing to support operational team when needed.

Your days will be varied and will require attention to detail, problem solving and a proactive approach to support the wider sales and operational team.

What we need from you

Are you refined, personable, knowledgeable, curious, proactive and meticulous?  The successful candidate will need to demonstrate these behaviors every day. 

The ideal candidate will have experience as a Conference / Sales Coordinator or within conference operations ideally within a similar style hotel environment. Additionally the ideal candidate will have: 

• Passion for the food and beverage scene and/or meetings and events
• Experience using Delphi is desirable and experience using Opera and Micros is an advantage
• Highly developed verbal & written communication skills 
• Proven attention to detail in administrative tasks
• Initiative to work unsupervised and be self-motivated
• The ability to be collaborative and build internal and external relationships
• Excellent time management and the ability to manage competing deadlines to achieve results.
• Unlimited and unrestricted working rights for Australia.

What we offer

You’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a range of benefits that supports you throughout your IHG career journey

• Free duty meal daily from staff canteen
• Discounted CBD carparking access
• Laundered uniform supplied
• Paid birthday leave - hip hip hooray!
• Paid parental leave
• Up to 5 proactive paid wellness and mental health days
• Some of the best colleague discounts across our IHG Hotels for accommodation, food and beverage
• A massive colleague discounts platform for all your favourite brands and retailers
• Most importantly, your career journey will be supported through our lifelong development programs, IHG career milestone celebrations, and transfer of leave entitlements as you move and grow with IHG.