Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam offers 408 guest rooms, 21 state of the art banquet rooms, the Silk Road restaurant that can seat up to 250 persons with the East meets West restaurant concept , Silk Bar and 24 hour Room service. Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam is a partner of IJvenues and part of the international hotelchain Mövenpick hotels & resorts.

In this role your focus is to maximize revenue in the group segment by sending out competitive offers regarding corporate conference and meeting requests to be able to convert the request in a definite booking and eventually make a full and detailed planning of the event

Are you the new colleague who would like to contribute to make our hotel successful? A motivated seller? And you would like to represent a fantastic product? Do good results give you a boost and would you like to be appreciated? You work independently and yet a real team player? Then this is the right job for you. A job with plenty of growth opportunities and challenges

The main duties and responsibilities of this position includes;

• Maximizing the turnover on the basis of yield management, upselling, pricing strategies and creative thinking with promotions
• Achieve revenue goals with your colleagues
• Discuss needs / requirements and prepare cost estimates and competitive quotes for groups, contracting, making final arrangements
• Welcoming accounts and arrange site inspections
• Registration of all current offers and follow-up of outstanding proposals
• Responsible for the full organization of a definite event in our hotel
• The spill between the organization and the clients
• Registering all information in our computer system and make function sheets for the operational departments
• After sales
• Apply at all times the hotel policies regarding cancellations, no-shows, etc.
• You report directly to the C&E Manager

Profile

• “HBO” work level, preferably Bachelor degree Hotel management
• 3-4 years’ work experience in a similar position and preferable similar company
• Affection with the Hotel industry
• Commercial attitude
• No “9 to 5”mentality
• Guest, Market and Result oriented
• Strong communication skills
• Structured and stress resistant
• Flexible
• Enthusiastic and creative
• Motivated
• Excellent knowledge of the Dutch and English language in both conversation and writing
• Representative
• “hands-on” mentality
• Accurate and eye for detail and quality
• Proactive Sales attitude
• Team player, but are also capable to work independently

We are a member of Koninklijke Horeca Nederland and operate according to the Dutch labor agreement.
 
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts offers:

• Pension fund
• Excellent international career development and training possibilities.
• Travel allowance
• Night- and Sunday allowance
• Staff uniforms and laundry service
• Staff meals
• Discounts on Rooms and Food & Beverage within Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
• Vitality program
• Tax advantages on bikes and laptops
• Employee recognition Program
• Various staff events 
• Please note that if you are not a citizen from a European state and you do not have a work permit for the Netherlands you cannot apply for this position.

For this position, it is required to understand and speak the Dutch language. Please have a look at the Dutch vacancy for further information about this position.