director of events resume example with 4+ years of experience
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Director of Events with expertise in sales, budgeting, planning and execution for special events ranging from fundraisers, corporate events, Patron events, and a high volume of weddings on a multifaceted property. Experience in collaborating with variety of departments to reach campus wide goals amongst diversified agendas. Successful growing business by creating a variety of new revenue streams and packages as responses to trends in the industry. Personable and dedicated with upbeat, positive attitude and proven skill in establishing rapport with clients. Motivated to maintain customer satisfaction and contribute to company success. Articulate, enthusiastic and results-oriented with demonstrated passion for building relationships, cultivating partnerships and growing businesses.
- Led team to achieve recognition by being voted #1 Best of Nashville Wedding Venues in 2020
- Created highly effective new Micro Wedding Package that resulted is $77,000 in gross sales within 4 months of it's launch in Summer/Fall 2020
- Designed and improved an engagement proposal package that doubled in bookings from 30 to 70 from 2019-2020
- Exceeded sales goals by an average of 43% in site rental fees and 36% in overall revenues in 2019 budget
- Grew overall revenue +18% in 2019 by closing on leads generated from special events.
Aimbridge Hospitality – Tempe, AZ,
- Manage a team consisting of an Operations Manager, Event Coordinator, 3 Supervisors and Bartending team
- Research, develop and launch other revenue and service opportunities with a "think outside of the box" mentality to include photo sessions, elopements, proposals, birthday parties, etc.
- Build and negotiate contracts and relationships with a robust preferred vendor network to include in-kind donations, discounts, and kickbacks.
- Execute sales processes from site visit presentation, design contracts, collecting fees to book venues for client events and manage client relations post event for repeat business.
- Coordinate vendors, timelines, catering, rental orders, logistics and budgets for internal events.
- Prepare and monitor yearly department budget that exceed $1.2 million in revenue.
- Troubleshoot and crisis management during planning and execution of event
- Hire and train staff for cross-functional assignments
- Manage site calendar to include internal and external events, in house meetings, public programs, etc.
- Market and publicize weddings and other special events in social media and other media outlets.
- Develop a large network of event professionals by participating in industry events to grow outbound sales.
- Manage invoicing, payments and sales reports for all vendors and contracted staff
Milwaukee County – Milwaukee, WI,
- Constructed weekly logistics meetings and BEO's for operations staff and COO
- Planned, managed, and executed a wide variety of events including large and small annual events, corporate events, weddings, fund raisers, networking events, internal events, and special interest group meetings.
- Coordinated responsibilities for overall event including working with outside vendors such as caters, rentals, photographers, lighting and draping companies, etc.
- Ensured client needs were met, and adhered to the pre-decided time line throughout the duration of the event.
- Multi task, delegated, prioritized and managed multiple events at one time in a fast- paced, ever-changing environment with an all-hands-on-deck mentality.
- Operated with initiative and remain highly reliable, polished and professional when dealing with clients, members, sponsors, outside vendors, internal departments and executive management.
- Controlled inventory and lowered costs by implementing new procedures that help with overhead and waste of products of bar packages and cash bar opportunities.
- Developed all weddings/events by creating proposal, contract, BEO, CAD layout and invoices.
- Oversaw and trained bar staff of 15+ people to become familiar with preparing venue logistics, venue guidelines, bar set up, and working with cross-functional vendors and other internal departments Nashville, TN.
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School Attended
- The Illinois Institute Of Art - Chicago
- Belmont University
Job Titles Held:
- Director of Events
- Special Events Manager
Degrees
- Associate of Arts
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
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