Catering Coordinator

The Fairmont Dallas

Location: US - TX - Dallas

Feb 6, 2013
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Catering Coordinator

Provide administrative support for the Catering Department, including typing, computer input, filing, answering telephones, and printing reports.

Company Overview: The Fairmont Dallas, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, offers 545 elegant guestrooms and suites, with over 73,000 square feet of banqueting and meeting space. For the last forty years, the Fairmont Dallas has been the setting for countless civic, social, cultural, convention and corporate events, but more importantly the setting for thousands of memories.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Director of Catering & Conferences Services, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

* Consistently offers professional, engaging and friendly service
* Produce forecast and budget reports
* Reconcile daily banquet revenue
* Manage JD Power Guest Satisfaction Program
* Produce Banquet Event Orders
* Coordinating all billing for upcoming groups
* Auditing group meeting space
* Guest Room blocks to contracts
* Produce group resumes
* Manage BEO and resume binder 
* Previous experience is an asset
* 2 years Catering or Conference Service experience
* Fluency in English both verbal and non-verbal
* Provide legible communication
* Compute basic arithmetic
* Knowledge of menu development
* Knowledge of accommodating room capacities
* Knowledge of all styles of room set-ups, standard equipment involved and proper handling of such
* Knowledge of organizing set-up requirements from information on Banquet Event Orders (B.E.O.'s)
* Knowledge of staffing guidelines/requirements to set-up, turn and breakdown function spaces
* Provide legible communication
* Ability to suggestively sell.

Visa Requirements: Must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States. 
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Applicants who do not already have legal permission to work in the United States will not be considered.
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