Conference Services Manager

About Us

Only 15 miles from downtown Boston, The Westin Waltham Boston provides easy access to Concord, Lexington, and Cambridge.

Our associates can enjoy a list of excellent benefits, which include free onsite parking, complimentary lunch or dinner meals and free uniform dry cleaning for hourly associates.

Monthly employee appreciation celebrations, family holiday gatherings, incentives for excellent customer service and discounted hotel stay rates.

For those looking to stay fit, you can take advantage of our complimentary access to our WestinWORKOUT Fitness Studio.

At the Westin Waltham, we take care of you so that you can take care of our guests!

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Compensation
Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $83,000.00 Annually

Tipped/Service Charge Eligible? No

Discretionary Performance Bonus Eligible? Yes

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 group room blocks and pick up, generate detailed resumes for the operating departments.


* Ability to work with outside vendors to ensure clien...