Meetings & Events Coordinator

1 week ago


Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom ABode Canterbury Full time

An opportunity to join our family where work is a pleasure.

Location: ABode Canterbury is a stylish, four AA star 72-bedroom boutique hotel on Canterbury High Street. It houses one of Kent's finest restaurants, the County Restaurant, which serves exquisite modern European cuisine.
For the commuters, Canterbury East and West train stations are just a few minutes' walk away.
Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to to find out more, chat to us and apply

Hours: Part time – 18 HOURS per week based around working 3 days.

Role: As part or our team, we welcome your passion, natural warmth and humour to ensure our guests have an amazing experience every time. We're seeking friendly, warm and cheerful individuals who are happy to work together as a team and, importantly, want to have fun. We welcome candidates who are new to the industry as well as experienced ones - what matters most to us is that you have a positive and engaging personality, you are self-motivated and enjoy the buzz and excitement of a busy hotel atmosphere.

The candidate will be expected to take calls from event organisers and be accurate in inputting the details into the Opera sales & Catering system. Be able to accurately build and deliver function sheets for each organiser and be able to communciate their specific needs and desires to our operations team.

The role calls for a great telephone manner, be a great communciator and be proficient with WORD so that contracted details can be exchanged with our guests.

To say thank you, we have many perks:

  • Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our family gets rewarded a rate of pay above the National Living Wage, irrespective of age, plus you get tips on top.
  • Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
  • Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
  • We understand it's OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
  • We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
  • Everyone can learn and develop - our 'Family First' development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
  • We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
  • We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here

One click apply to become part of our family that works hard & plays hard too, inspires and supports each other and has a load of fun along the way.


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