Event Planner

**What you'll be doing**:
To lead the administrative function relating to the hospitality provision onsite and provide operational support to the Hospitality team
To liaise with client pre and post event, ensuring all key information is collated and communicated to the hospitality team and clients/ customers.
To provide a pro active sales function, ensuring upselling is undertaken for each sales enquiry submitted

**More about the role**:
Could you bring your spark to Eurest? Here's what you need to know before applying:
Your key responsibilities will include:

- Completion of Blue Runner Hospitality System to the required company standard
- Review and amend hospitality bookings in Blue Runner
- Compile detailed Hospitality Quotations for client approval including labour, expense, and cost breakdowns
- Liaising with Hospitality clients on event functions, ensuring smooth delivery of the service level onsite
- Support with the completion of Nexus, Symphony, TV Screen menu input
- Liaise with customers and clients regarding event, including confirmation of event costs PO details
- Actively upselling additional hospitality items from Blue Runner
- Ensure JLR PO procedures are accurately followed and adhered to
- Liaise with client and customers, feedback queries to the Hospitality team onsite
- Ensure company invoices are processed in a timely manner via Foodbuy
- Selling from the website (Blue Runner) - In depth knowledge of the online booking tool
- Processing of credit card payments
- Inputting of stock following of stock following weekly stocktaking into Foodbuy
- Stocktaking of Hospitality food stocks within the Hospitality areas as required
- To support the retail operation as required, to include working on an EPOS till
- Updating & maintaining daily & weekly menus as required
- Compiling customer facing allergen cards
- Maintain PO Tracker, Open PO Tracker
- Collating and forwarding invoice details to Finance functions

**Who you are**:
Our ideal Event Planner will:

- Ability to work in a multi site environment
- Acts in line with guidelines and procedures laid down by Compass
- Friendly and approachable
- Ability to work on their own initiative
- Positively promotes Compass to clients and customers
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Previous experience in a sales admin role
- Computer Literate. Competent in Microsoft Office and Excel
- Attention to detail. Numerate. Accurate and precise data entry
- Good communicator, good verbal & written skills
- Competent in Microsoft Teams
- Effective time management
- Self motivated and able to use own initiative

We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

- Onsite Free Car Parking
- Free Meals
- Uniform
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive Wow Points every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes

Eurest, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, typically serves 250,000 meals daily, servicing approx 300 contracts across over 700 sites nationwide. The company is a major business and industry foodservice provider for UK organisations many of which have been crucially important in keeping the UK economy and society in general, functioning during the pandemic.

Job Reference: com/1704/93485001/52561944/WJ

Compass Group UK&I is an equal opportunities employer, committed to cultivating diverse and inclusive environments for every employee.