Special Events Manager, Full Service Scratch Kitchen, Chicago IL
A vibrant, full service scratch kitchen restaurant in the Chicago area, doing $4M to $7M with a strong bar program and festive energy, is hiring a Special Events Manager. Gravity Talent Partners is running this search confidentially on the company's behalf.
What You Will Own
Sell and book private dining and events from inquiry to contract
Build proposals, contracts and event orders and hand them to operations
Partner with the GM and Executive Chef to deliver every event as sold
Build relationships with corporate accounts, planners and regular guests
Manage the events calendar and hit booking and revenue targets
Represent the restaurant in the local corporate and social event market
What We Are Looking For
Event sales or private dining sales experience in a restaurant, hotel or venue
A closer who turns inquiries and tours into booked events
Detail oriented with contracts, event orders and handoffs
Warm and polished with clients, and calm on event day
Organized across a busy calendar
Compensation
Up to $60K, full time.
How to Apply
Apply below and your information comes straight to our team. A Gravity Talent Partners recruiter reviews every application and will reach out if your background is a fit. This search is confidential.
The Special Events Manager Role
A Special Events Manager sells and coordinates a restaurant's private dining and events: corporate dinners, celebrations, holiday parties and buyouts. The job is part sales, part planning and part execution, and it adds a meaningful revenue line to a high volume restaurant.
Day to day, the Special Events Manager answers inquiries, tours clients, writes proposals and contracts, manages the calendar and builds the event orders the kitchen and floor work from. On event day the Manager is on site, making sure what was sold is what the guests get, and following up afterward to book the next one.
The role reports to the General Manager and works closely with the Executive Chef and floor managers. The best Special Events Managers build a book of repeat corporate clients and planners and become the reason a restaurant's private dining rooms are full.
Candidates come from event sales, private dining, catering sales or banquet coordination roles in restaurants, hotels and venues.
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