IHG Hiring for Cluster MICE Fulfillment Manager – Sales & Marketing – InterContinental Hotels Group® Dubai Festival City Job at Dubai Full Time

Do you see yourself as a Cluster Mice Fulfillment Manager for InterContinental Hotels Group® Dubai Festival City?

What’s your passion? Whether you’re into triathlon, exploring new restaurants or dancing the tango, at IHG we’re interested in you. We love people who apply the same amount of passion and precision to their jobs as they do to their hobbies. Imagine working for a company that gives you Room to be yourself. Our commitment to our people is to deliver room to have a great start, to learn and grow, to perform, to be recognized and rewarded, to be involved and to take the initiative and lead.

The InterContinental Hotels Group® properties in Dubai Festival City consist of four hotel brands. These include the luxury brand InterContinental, the superior upscale Crowne Plaza, the lavish long-stay InterContinental Residence Suites and the vibrant mid-scale Holiday Inn. In addition to over 1000+ bedrooms, the four properties boast a selection of high quality restaurants and bars, an impressive 3,800 square meter Event Centre across two levels, the 5,000 square meters Festival Arena by InterContinental, the luxurious Spa InterContinental, state-of-the-art gymnasium and swimming pool facilities. We are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming and full of life to people to join over 900 colleagues who are always finding ways to make every guests experience an enjoyable one. We value the passion and enthusiasm of our colleagues, and encourage you to share your passion when you work with us.

Your day to day

At the moment we’re looking for a Cluster MICE Fulfillment Manager to join our energetic, enthusiastic and passionate team at InterContinental Hotels Dubai Festival City.

Reporting directly to the Director of Conference and Events, the MICE Fulfillment Manager will be responsible in proposing, converting and handling the operational side of the group.

Handling of Groups, Events and Special Accounts and Projects

• To handle the MICE segment
• To handle inquiries from A-Z for leads that are coming within 45 days
• Communicates regularly with guests and ensures high customer satisfaction and service standards
• To ensure seamless execution of an event from proposal, conversion, completion to billing
• To ensure constant and open communication especially with Business Development and Events Services team to appear as one team and act in a professional manner

Administration work

• To maintain and input Delphi Accurate and complete entry of all necessary information in Delphi to have a good knowledge about Delphi and Opera.
• To participate in the weekly BEO/GIS, Handover and Yield meetings.
• Communicating actively with all departments in the hotel and understand the needs and importance of open communication

Achieve revenue targets

• Proactively solicits for referrals from in house clients.
• Services all confirmed business efficiently and ensuring that both organizers and guests are satisfied to entice repeat bookings.
• To ensure that proper charging is done for all events related services and the contract should be efficiently executed and all changes supported with addendums.
• Upselling Invoice accuracy and promptness of delivery should be followed
• Know what the competition is doing what they are offering.
• Always keep abreast with new things in events and events management by maintaining and forging good relationships with event planners and organizers.
• Ensure up to date knowledge of market dynamics locally in Dubai and UAE, regionally and internationally to provide valuable input towards hotel’s strategy development plan.
• Create good relationships with Suppliers of events services providers
• 100% compliance of MICE Conversion.
• Engage with guests and customers within the hotel, at client events, industry gatherings and other social functions.

Achieve profit targets

• Supports the hotels GOP targets by consciously ensuring that costs are kept to a minimum
• Discretion should be used at all times when offering discounts, the parameters of the Events Catalogue should be maintained always.
• Complementary policies of the hotel should be followed at all times and parameters set by revenue should be adhered to.

Operate Efficiently

• Ensures that BEOs are given to operating departments 5 days prior to the event
• Coordinates that client files are kept organized and current with all required information.
• Conducts pre events meetings with the operating departments as required
• Updates Delphi, Opera and manual files.
• Follows the events sales process of the hotel
• Refers and efficiently utilize the events catalogue.

What we need from you

Ideally, you’ll have some or all of the following competencies and experience we’re looking for:

• Bachelor from a University or Hotel School preferably in Sales & Marketing or tourism/hotel management
• Proficient in oral and written English and preferably a 2nd language
• Minimum 2 year experience in a similar capacity of a 5* hotel or the MICE industry with F&B Operations environment and/or strength in catering sales and operations.
• Customer driven, meticulous; has high attention to details
• Good team player and eager to grow and further develop in own career
• Excellent all-round communication (telephone, email, face to face etc.)
• High level of common sense and skills of problem solving and making decisions
• Delphi experience

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with competitive salary and benefits.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG® family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve – visit www.careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

So go on – show us how your passion and personality are the perfect fit to deliver memorable experiences to our guests.

Job Reference: EMEAA36395