Sales Executive – Events

About the company

Job responsibilities

• Manage meetings, conferences, training programmes, corporate functions, and social-event enquiries from qualification through confirmed booking.
• Develop proposals for venue, catering, audiovisual requirements, guest rooms, and event packages; follow up to secure decisions.
• Quote within approved rates, space availability, and revenue guidelines, and identify opportunities to upsell menus, packages, and services.
• Arrange and conduct venue showrounds, presentations, and client needs-assessment meetings.
• Prepare and track contracts, booking documents, deposits, and payment milestones in coordination with Finance and relevant teams.
• Record event requirements and hand confirmed business, timelines, and revisions to Event Planning, Operations, and relevant hotel departments.
• Build relationships with corporate bookers, planners, and social-event clients; seek referrals and future opportunities.
• Update enquiry status, conversion, forecast value, lost-business reasons, and event-space utilization in designated systems.

Qualifications

• Approximately 1–3 years of hotel events sales, banqueting sales, MICE, or comparable venue-sales experience.
• Working understanding of event proposals, banquet packages, function-space selling, contracts, and client handovers.
• Requires customer-service orientation, commercial instinct, follow-up discipline, confidence closing business, coordination, and attention to detail.
• Fluent professional spoken and written English is required; additional languages are an advantage.
• MS Office proficiency and experience with hotel sales, events, or CRM systems are preferred.