Responsibilities

• Assists restaurant, Bistro, Pizzeria, and Gallery in creating, maintaining a positive image
• Publicizes events, special promotions, and other newsworthy events utilizing social media outlets
• Markets Entoto by developing and implementing marketing and advertising campaigns
• Track sales data for each promotion/event; analyze trends; make recommendations to increase sales/attendance
• Generate new business for events
• Develop ads and brochures to market restaurant/café
• Efficiently executes marketing campaigns
• Works closely with outside vendors to ensure the website is up-to-date
• Maintain relationships with current clients Business Development:
• Research markets and identify event opportunities and generate interest for holding events
• Builds market position by locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing new and existing business relationships
• Ability to think out-of-the-box for generate new business
• Prospecting, cold calling, and developing a “book of business”
• Increase the special events revenue Event Coordination:
• Able to organize time effectively, forward plan, and prioritize tasks/projects to ensure workload is balanced and urgent situations are dealt with immediately
• Presents ideas and solutions to meet client’s needs
• Develop, plan and sell private functions
• Possess strong negotiating skills
• Ability to work within strict budget specifications while meeting client’s expectations or deviating from the agreed expectations
• Work closely with the Operation Director Restaurant Manager and teams to help coordinate and process event orders in all functions
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with various vendors
• Must have the ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines Operations:
• Daily operations as assigned

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• BA from an accredited College or University
• Minimum 2 years previous experience in restaurant event-specific sales
• Ability to execute flawlessly against multiple processes
• Strong time management and multi-tasking skills