Assistant Director of Banquets

Embrace your passion for hiking, skiing, snowboarding and many other outdoor activities in Banff National Park while pursuing a fulfilling career at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Take a risk, make a change and experience a new adventure while further developing your career. To live and work in a National Park is a once in a lifetime opportunity.  Our team is a network of empowered individuals with a strong sense of themselves and the hospitality industry. Work hard, play hard and receive extraordinary benefits including subsidized onsite accommodations, which make saving money very easy to manage. Join our Fairmont family today!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop and enhance Fairmont service standards through disciplined administration of departmental Standard Operating Procedures and excellent attention to detail.
• Enhance the leadership skills of the Banquet Supervisors, Captains and Head Housemens and through him/her the additional banquet leaders. This includes the development of decision-making skills, performance management techniques, function planning ability, process mapping and analysis, and sense of urgency and ownership.
• Ensure effective working relationships and clear communication are maintained with all colleagues and leaders in the Banquet Department.
• Develop and administer the departmental Colleague Opinion Survey Action Plan.
• Critically assess procedures, policies, and methods of operation and alter them where necessary.
• Ensure the financial success of the department by monitoring productivities, revenues and costs.
• Proactively implement appropriate procedures or programs wherever necessary.
• Liaise with the Conference Services/Catering Department to ensure that a common vision is shared.
• Work with clients, CS&C and Sales to develop new programs and services in order to offer a unique and personalized experience for all conference guests.
• Create and implement all beverage menus within the department as well as work closely with the kitchen on the creation of all food menus.
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