Company Name: Bon Appétit Management Company
Location: San Jose, CA
Type: Full Time
Job Description:
The Catering Sales Manager drives excellence and personalized experiences of catering events. You will operate in accordance with strategic objectives and selective selling guidelines, in place, to meet and exceed internal group revenue components. As the Catering Sales Manager, you will focus on innovative hospitality and creating the catering experiences for the Food program in order to support operational excellence. Alongside the Catering General Manager, you will leverage their strong communication, hospitality and operational skills to partner with key internal and external stakeholders to promote standards, Food expectations and enhance user (partner) experience.
Bon Appetit has a culture of workplace health and safety that you will champion everyday! As the Catering Sales Manager, you will set the example of responsible practices and ensure the well-being of the employees, operation and yourself.
The Google Food program’s vision is to inspire and enable the world to make food choices and use food experiences to develop more sustainable lifestyles and communities. Apply now and become a part of our philosophy!
Key Responsibilities:
- Confirm Banquet Event Orders (BEO’s) and send invoices for review
- Meet with clients to discuss budget, event theme and experience
- Support and participate in Catering Showcases, meet and greet and client relationship building initiatives
- Establish, grow and maintain a synergistic relationship with the Catering Sales and Catering Events teams, Cooperatively establishing and communicating strategy to teams leading to first class execution of event experiences.
- Monitor all ticket changes through Catertrax and communicate to the appropriate team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to drive and enhance a culture of Food and Workplace Safety
- Minimum 2 years experience in catering sales, sales for Convention Services, Banquet, and Hotel Sales
- College degree or equivalent experience required
- Software knowledge in Catertrax, G-Suite and Excel highly preferred
- Marketing and events experience a plus
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- General culinary knowledge of basic kitchen practices, protocols and procedures
- Marketing and events experience a plus
- Proven ability to maximize budget, enhance user experience and creativity across all channels in alignment with business strategy
- Ability to effectively communicate, motivate and interact with all levels within the organization
- Managing in a Union Environment is a plus
- ServSafe Certification
Compass Group is an equal opportunity employer. At Compass, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.
