Sales & events exec

Are you experienced in Events Sales and eager to embark on your next career chapter? If so, we have a phenomenal opportunity awaiting, in a truly exceptional venue., What's in it for you as a Sales & Events Executive at Market House :

• Wagestream, which gives you power over your pay and access to up to 50% of your salary in advance of payday.


• An extra day's holiday for your birthday.


• Free meals on shift.


• Product tastings.


• Apprenticeship schemes, internal learning, and development.


• Employee assistance programme, supporting your mental, financial, and physical wellbeing.


• Staff parties.


• And more!


What you'll be doing :

• Reacting to all incoming enquiries through our system Collins, over the phone, by email or in person.


• Produce accurate timely reports that meets the needs of the S&E Manager to include the reporting of appointments, calls made and business leads.


• Arrange and carry out venue show rounds and attend proactive sales activity both in-house and externally when required.


• Build relationships with new, existing and regular customers.


• To host and coordinate bookings and reservations alongside the operational team helping with set up, the running of the event and being the main point of contact between the customer and the operations team.


• Ensuring the customer experience is always to a high standard from the first enquiry to after the event.


• Ensure pre-orders are always up to date, printed and communicated with the kitchen and management team as well as attending weekly events meetings.


• Overseeing final details of events and bookings; ensuring all details, timings and finer information is accurate.


• Looking forward at upcoming events; contacting the main organiser to upsell, confirm timings and running order of their event.


Updating collins and communicating with the kitchen and operations team.

• Attend sales meetings, stepping in for the sales manager when needed and have an understanding of figures and sales plan / focus.


• Upselling games to drinks and dinner bookings and vice versa.


• Proactively building a local network with retailers and local businesses to ask for new and future business.


• Ensuring table allocations are accurate to ensure maximising revenue opportunities including our in-house events.


• Weekly sales meeting with the S&E Manager to run through weekly outcome, new weeks focus and action plan, any training or questions required.
  
  Excellent communication skills


• Experience of Collins is preferred


• Excellent organisational, administration and attention detail skills


• Previous hospitality sales / M&E skills experience is beneficial
  
  £13.00 per hour, plus tronc & bonus


• 50% off food, drinks, and accommodation across all CPG sites


• Earn more with our quarterly team sales bonus


Market House is a social and events space unlike any other in Reading. Situated in a historic old Lloyds bank, the newly renovated space now includes a rooftop bar, pizza kitchen, mezzanine floor, 23 boutique hotel rooms & not to mention a repurposed bank vault - creating one of the best, and biggest, events spaces in Reading.

Serving freshly rolled sourdough pizza, gourmet burgers, craft beer, exceptional cocktails and everything else in between, we pride ourselves on having the best vibes, the best team & the best venue in town - all conveniently located in the heart of Reading City Centre.