Event Manager
Job Introduction
We are recruiting an Event Manager to join our amazing team at Bord Bia. We are looking for a real foodie who has a commitment to phenomenal hospitality service. This is an exciting opportunity with huge potential for someone who is customer focused, solutions driven and committed to providing great service – with a smile.
Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications.
Role Responsibility
You will be responsible for ensuring the coordination of meeting rooms and hospitality bookings with the skill to rearrange meeting spaces on the system to maximise client requests. Greeting staff and visitor’s and organising hospitality facilities and services whilst managing set ups and logistics for internal and external client events and delivering a hosting/concierge experience for visitors.
Building a team by selecting, recruiting, and training the right team to deliver your operation to the service standards agreed in the contract with your client.
Control all costs such as labour, expenses, stock levels, process invoices, track orders where relevant and produce weekly and monthly flash reports with accurate data.
Comply with all Company and client policies, procedures, and statutory regulations, including human resources, site rules, health and safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire, COSHH. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace
The Ideal Candidate
Essential Skills
- Can do attitude
- Excellent Customer Service Skills
- Superb communication skills (written and oral)
- Computer Literate
- Ability to multitask
- Solutions driven
Package Description
We are offering a competitive salary of €45,000 plus bonus and access to superb employee benefits
- Free GP service
- Bike to work scheme
- Life assurance
- Company pension scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Employee assistance program with counselling and life advice supports
- Family leave options
- Shopping vouchers
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.
Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.
Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.
Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process
