Event Planning Coordinator

**About us**
At **InterContinental London Park Lane**, we are currently looking for an **Event Planning Coordinator** to join the Events Team***

**Welcome to No1 Park Lane**

Situated at one of the capital’s most prestigious addresses
- where Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II once used to reside, InterContinental London Park Lane reinvents traditional luxury to present modern and flexible sophistication in the heart of Mayfair. Inspired by its location overlooking the Royal Parks, the hotel delivers elegant natural interiors and award-wining seasonal cuisine.

**Our Event Planning Coordinators** **will**:

- Work closely with the Commercial Team & Event Planning Managers to oversee administration and coordination of the department.
- Assist team in planning and efficiently coordinate departmental events
- Establish client requirements and identifying how the hotel can facilitate their needs
- Actively work as part of a team to achieve the department objectives and budget
- Have experience with building relationship and networks with internal and external stakeholders

**What we need from you**:

- A strong understanding of the luxury hotel industry
- Fluent written & verbal English is essential
- Strong communication skills, attention to deal as well as a team player.
- Keen learning in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Previous experience in a similar position in a luxury/upscale hotel environment is desirable, but not essential
- Have worked across the different markets segments, in particular Corporate and MICE events

**What we offer** We are committed to offer and provide our **Event Planning Coordinator** **with a competitive salary and a large range of benefits**:

- **£27,000.00 salary + 10% annual bonus** and great IHG perks
- 28 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, and this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (pro rata)

At InterContinental London Park Lane, we strive to make international travel more alluring by offering a ‘**Slice** **of the InterContinental Life’**:

- **We maintain service of the highest standards, intertwined with local cultural wisdom and international know-how**

As such, we take our colleagues on a personal and professional development journey to ensure they have the confidence to deliver the best service. We offer a range of self-development resources including personal access to the Headspace app, Mental Health First Aider training sessions all the

way to financial wellbeing support. We also offer professional and career development with our IHG Leadership programmes and our partnership with Harvard Mentor.
- **We’re charismatic, sophisticated and cosmopolitan**

We deliver a luxury environment to our colleagues by offering wellbeing activities on a monthly basis such as back massages, reflexology and foot doctor sessions. We organise monthly social events and take pride in fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace culture where everyone can thrive and have a place to belong.
- **Did you know? We’re the largest luxury hotel brand**

We offer a large range of benefits to support the financial wellbeing of our colleagues; from discounts on retail and various activities over 15,000 stores; our recognition scheme where we provide monetary bonuses and praises for outstanding work; subsidised taxi journey for shifts starting or finishing between 00:00 and 05:00am to worldwide hotel room rates and F&B discounts for all colleagues, their friends and family too

We are open 7 days a week 365 days a year and need people to work a range of shifts and days - this means we can offer great flexibility if required.

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You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.
- At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law._

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Job Reference: EMEAA36149