Group Bookings Manager - Sales

Job Introduction

Sodexo Live! have a fantastic opportunity for a Group Bookings Manager (Sales) to join our awesome highly supportive and experienced Sales & Events team. You will be based at the Bateaux on London Embankment. Bateaux London is London’s best restaurant on the water. Situated on the River Thames we offer dining experiences, special events and private hire functions. It's a unique operation where you can experience the vibrance, majesty and unmatched views of the city from a gloriously different perspective.

The focus of this unique role will be to take responsibility for the day-to-day sales process for Group Bookings taking place at Heritage Portfolio sites across London.  All group enquiries will be processed via the Group Bookings Manager from initial enquiry to quotation and confirmation. The role will also need to liaise closely with all site General Managers to ensure the services promised are able to be delivered.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in hospitality and events with excellent relationship building skills and a flair for sales.

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and drive; a great relationship builder, someone who loves to work under pressure and be well rewarded for all that hard work! An events background would be ideal! You will be an engaging, passionate, and talented salesperson who has a real interest in working within the events and hospitality sector.

Role Responsibility

What you’ll do:

• Responsible for the day-to-day sales process for Group Bookings taking place at Heritage Portfolio site across London. 
• Processing group enquiries, checking availability, booking the relevant space, providing an accurate quotation, and ultimately confirming and contracting each group booking.
• Liaising closely with the site General Managers to ensure that the needs of each group are understood and can be delivered to the exact standards required.
• Liaising closely with the Event Sales Manager to ensure that proposals and packages offered are profitable, competitive, current and enticing.  Constantly updating and upgrading the offer in accordance with the venue menus.
• A key part of the role is relationship building with Tour Operators, Agents and Corporate Clients, booking groups into our sites.  Reigniting old relationships and maintaining and building on existing relationships.
• Work closely with our Business Development team to pass on any hot leads.
• Ability to work across a number of locations and flexibility to deliver suggestions and alternatives to groups requiring an option that is out of the ordinary.
• Strong organizational skills are required and an understanding of financial requirements, including invoicing and budgets.
• Ability to convert business at a high rate is a must.

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

What you bring:

• A track record in the Events/Hospitality Industry
• Sales focused
• Ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks
• Computer literacy
• Excellent communication verbal & written skills
• Excellent business relationship building skills and understanding of customer needs
• Organized with great attention to detail
• Financially astute
• Interest in food and hospitality 

Package Description

£26,000pa - £28,000pa + great bonus & benefits package

Location: London

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw Monday to Friday with flexibility *Hybrid working*

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Access to ongoing training and development programs
• Countless opportunities to grow within the company
• Full training

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 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