Event Sales Executive

Address: High Gosforth Park

Why wait to make your next career move?

Apply now and you could be working at Newcastle’s Grand Hotel Gosforth Park! Set in 12 acres of parkland next to Newcastle Racecourse, the Grand Hotel Gosforth Park is just 10 minutes’ drive from Newcastle’s centre. It offers 178 luxurious, modern rooms and superb leisure facilities.

Gosforth Park offers an in-house gym and a Spa that is popular with guests, offering beauty treatments and a hair salon. We also have an impressive 17 event rooms accommodating up to 800 delegates which makes us a perfect choice for small meetings or larger conferences and gala dinners.

Due to expansion, we are looking to recruit a Full-Time Event Sales Executive on to the team. You will be required to:

• You will provide efficient, and friendly service to our customers.
• You will be energetic, charismatic, and efficient in your approach to our customers.
• You will endeavour to be pro-active in your ideas and decision making, hence maximizing the company’s revenue as well as exceeding customer expectations.
• You will work to develop relationships with key clients and agents, maximising sales & revenue.

A passion for sales is vital, as are communication skills and thorough knowledge of hotel facilities. Experience in leisure sales is beneficial and a focus on proactive sales is desirable.

This position offers a very attractive salary and the opportunity for you to be creative!

In return for your commitment, we will support you in this new opportunity, with

• Up to 28 days holiday including bank holidays per annum
• Meals on duty (Subject to eligibility)
• Uniform (Subject to position)
• Accelerated promotional prospects

The Elite Venue Selection are an Equal Opportunities employer and applicants from non-EEC countries will require work permits or permission to work issued by the Home Office.

The Elite Venue Selection will not recognise any submissions related to unsolicited applications and no agency fees will apply in relation to such submissions.  If an agency submits an unsolicited CV to any director or employee of our company, we will not accept liability for commissions or other charges if we subsequently employ that candidate whether directly or through another agency. Where an agency’s correspondence contains a disclaimer indicating otherwise, our policy will prevail in this regard.

Positions are open to all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, candidates of any sexes or sexual orientation. All vacancies are posted both externally and internally on a weekly basis to ensure access to all applicants.