Event Manager

About Us

Courtland Grand Hotel is located in the heart of Atlanta's downtown business district.

We are minutes from many of the city's largest event venues that host major conventions such as Mercedes Benz Stadium, Georgia World Congress Center and State Farm Arena, just to name a few.

At Courtland Grand Hotel, we foster a family environment and embrace the diversity and cultures represented by our associates with our own Community Wall that celebrates the cultures our associates proudly represent.

We show appreciation to our associates through our HEI Loves initiatives with recognition and reward programs, birthday and anniversary celebrations, annual parties, and monthly informational events to keep our team updated and informed.

We offer a hearty benefit package that includes, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Discounted Room Rate, Parental Leave, Daily Pay Program, free parking and more!

Don't meet every single requirement of this job? At HEI we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still send in your information.

You may be the perfect candidate for this or for other roles within our organization!

We value U.S.

military experience and invite all qualified military candidates to apply.

Overview

Create the desired conference and meet clients' needs through active communication, planning, and team leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities


* An understanding of both monthly forecasting and the annual budget process.


* Understand the importance of raising the meeting planner evaluation scores and implement effective methods to ensure exceeding meeting planner satisfaction.


* Optimize room rental charges.


* Consistently participate in the re-booking of repeat business by having a track record of long-term client relationships.


* Actively participate in industry related organizations (NACE, MPI).


* Thorough knowledge of sales techniques including strong closing skills as well as negotiating skills.


* Comfortable with hotel site inspections and client presentations.


* Excellent creative skills to provide innovative set-ups, menus, and functions for groups.

Ability to generate creative and innovative menus while working closely with Chef on pricing specialty menus.


* Work closely with banquet department on operations and event execution, ability to quickly evaluate alternatives and decide on a plan of action.


* Provide overall direction, coordination, and ongoing evaluation of operations.

Detailed execution of all banquet event orders generated by the Convention Services Department.


* Experience providing Audio/Visual equipment and operating Audio/Visual as a profit center.


* Excellent knowledge of computers, specifically Delphi, Word, and Excel.


* Monitor gr...