Director of Banquets

Banquet Director is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all banquet and event operations within the Convention Center and event meeting space, ensuring an exceptional Guest and Meeting Planner experience, optimizing service and overall event experience, evaluating team performance, and ensuring staffing levels aligned with demand.

What will I be doing?

As a Banquet Director, your primary role is to lead the comprehensive management of event execution within the event space, ensuring high standards of quality and operational efficiency. Your key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing and coordinating all banquet and event activities within the Convention Center meeting space to guarantee flawless execution.
• Maintaining and enhancing customer service levels to ensure ongoing guest and satisfaction.
• Regularly analyzing and evaluating guest satisfaction, driving continuous improvements in processes.
• Proposing and developing strategies to expand and improve the range and quality of banquet services.
• Optimizing sales and controlling costs, identifying opportunities to maximize profitability.
• Fostering effective communication and collaborative relationships across all hotel departments, as well as with external clients and suppliers.
• Ensuring staffing levels are aligned with operational demand.
• Implementing ongoing training programs for the banquet team.
• Leading communication meetings, ensuring follow-up and proper documentation of actions and decisions.
• Managing team performance in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Recruiting, training, motivating, and developing the banquet team to achieve departmental goals.
• Ensuring compliance with hotel security protocols, fire regulations, and all health and safety legislation.y legislation.

What are we looking for?

A Banquet Director representing Hilton brands always works on behalf of our Guests and collaborates closely with other Team Members. To excel in this role, you should demonstrate the following attitudes, behaviors, skills, and values:

• Extensive knowledge of the hotel, leisure, and service sectors
• Proven track record of success in managing Conference and Banqueting operations, including the ability to drive profitability, control costs, and foster customer loyalty
• Outstanding communication skills
• Strong leadership skills to build, motivate, and lead a high-performing team
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