Event Planner

Job Introduction

We are looking for a enthusiastic and driven Events Planner to join our Sodexo team onsite, at Everton Football club. You will be responsible for working alongside the central and venue based teams to help provide customers with an exemplary and motivating event experience.  Ensuring company standards of performance are adhered to at all times, and providing close management of customer event details, data and finances.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a real self-starter, who is comfortable with being the face of our events, and building strong relationships with both our stakeholders and customers, while working onsite in a unique stadium environment. 

If you have a vibrant personality, and are a confident communicator, capable or taking initiative, with the willingness to be flexible and adaptable around match days, this could be the role for you! 

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Role Responsibility

• Achieve personal KPI's to be agreed with Line Manager, and follow company standards of performance for C&E
• Providing clients with a motivating and exemplary event planning experience on all platforms including calls, emails, face to face meetings and showrounds
• Manage C&E opportunities and confirmed business to the company standard
• Identify customer needs and provide solutions to match them, upselling on confirmed business to its full potential
• Build working relationships with central support teams, internal clients & customers
• Using CRM systems to ensure quality management of data, input of all event details, customer communications, sharing of event details between departments, event profit and loss management, tracking financials, data cleansing
• Develop existing accounts and engage with them to increase their commitment
• Manage debt through collecting payments in a timely manner in line with Company Accounting procedures
• Assist with entertaining, networking and exhibitions and at all times act as an ambassador for both Sodexo and the venue client

Please see attached job description for further information regarding the role requirements. 

The Ideal Candidate

What we are looking for: 

• A proven track record in an event planning role
• Strong knowledge of the local market, with good researching abilities 
• Client focussed approach, capable of building strong relationships at all levels
• Confident communicator, with excellent written & verbal skills, and a professional telephone manner
• Strong negotiation skills, able to anticipate and interpret the customers needs
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver measurable targets
• Excellent time management and organisational skills in order to prioritise various job demands
• Flexibility and adaptability with working hours to suit match days

Package Description

£22,000 - £24,000 depending on experience

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.

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.