Reservations and Meetings & Events Manager - (FTC 12 Months Maternity Cover) - Holiday Inn, Stoke on Trent, c.£22,000 plus Excellent Benefits Job Listing at IHG in STS

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Title: Reservations and Meetings & Events Manager - (FTC 12 Months Maternity Cover) - Holiday Inn, Stoke on Trent, c.£22,000 plus Excellent Benefits
Location: EUROPE_UK%26I-England-STS-Stoke On Trent
Job Number: STO000288

What's your passion? Whether you're into football, music or skiing at IHG we're interested in YOU. At IHG we employ people who apply the same amount of care and passion to their jobs as they do their hobbies - people who put our guests at the heart of everything they do. And we're looking for more people like this to join our friendly and professional team.

Holiday Inn Stoke on Trent is a newly refurbished modern hotel situated just off the M6 at Jct 15. This 118 bed roomed hotel has a fantastic Spirit Health Club which has a swimming pool, gymnasium, Jacuzzi and sauna. The hotel has 9 meeting rooms and Traders Restaurant & Bar offering English and Continental Cuisine.

As the Reservations and Meetings and Events Manager, you will manage and direct the successful co-ordination of conference and reservation business, events, enquiries and bookings to maximise sales for the Hotel. Your key responsibilities will include working in line with the conference network and academy revenue centre standards to ensure ongoing and future business for both Hotel Reservations and Conference Sales. You will maximise all revenue opportunities through execution of all sales strategies. As the Reservations and Meetings & Events Manager you will be responsible for Managing and motivating your team.

You will be required to ensure that all staff within your department are adequately trained and developed in line with company policy. You will also be responsible for the Recruitment and Selection of your team and for managing any Employee Relations issues with the support of the Human Resources Department. You will actively guide and direct the whole team to ensure consistency of brand standards and a high level of performance and service delivery.

This position requires previous experience within a reservations role and strong systems knowledge preferably Opera, alongside a proven track record of revenue and yield Management.

In return we'll give you a generous financial and benefits package including healthcare support, pension scheme, hotel discounts worldwide, access to a wide variety of discount schemes and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most importantly, we'll give you the room to be yourself.

At IHG we are committed to developing our team and managing our talent and would encourage internal as well as external candidates to apply for any of our vacancies.

So what's your passion? Please get in touch and tell us how you could bring your individual skills to IHG.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

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