Conference Services Manager

Company Description
**Grow your career with a company that shares your passion** Our Corporate Services Division has an exciting new opportunity to join the Sodexo team as our next **Conference Services Manager located in Toronto, ON.**

Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 67 countries, we serve over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of services. We pride ourselves on being committed to the highest standard of Employment Equity and Diversity. By partnering with the Stop Hunger Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to a corporate responsibility by fighting hunger worldwide. Start your journey with Sodexo, as we continue to grow across Canada

**Job Description**:
**How You’ll Make an Impact**:

- Identify the client’s objectives and expectations and provide subsequent recommendations
- Attend planning meetings as required
- Liaise with vendors and stakeholders during the event planning process
- Supervise the Conference Planning team and ensure proper coordination of timelines internally to meet client expectations
- Create “Meetings Excellence” service offering by designing unique space and ensuring service delivery through development of Standard Office Procedures (SOPs) and training for staff
- Build relationships and prospect future sales from client lists and references from existing clients.
- Use promotional packages and other marketing materials to increase the sales potential of our client through marketing added value services to prospective customers.
- Conduct site tours as required to market the facilities for prospective customers.
- Be active in networks of various organizations / associations to build customer networks as well as suppliers for specialized event services or products
- Manage Key Client events
- Establish and administer event quotes, contracts, and progress.
- In line with financial objectives, design and develop special event proposals that conceptualize and plan the meeting of customer requirements
- Conduct site inspections throughout planning to ensure everything adheres to the client’s standards
- Coordinate with external vendors, complete financial billing review and complete daily and weekly reporting

**Qualifications**:
**What You’ll Need to Succeed**:

- 3-5 of experience in event management, preferably with specialized post-secondary education
- Certified Meeting Planner (CMP) preferred
- Revenue focused and seeks opportunity in all communication with customers
- Strong financial management skills re: financial analysis, procurement of vendor services etc
- Exceptionally service oriented
- Well-organized multi-tasker
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Team player to maintain effective relationships and communication between various departments involved in the delivery of any conference or event.
- Experience in sales and marketing, as it relates to creating proposals and managing sales objectives
- Software skills include Delphi, Social Tables, Microsoft Office
- Must be a self-starter, able to take initiative, running projects from start through to completion with mínimal oversight

Additional Information
**What Sodexo Can Offer You**:

- Flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation & great employee benefits
- Training and development programs
- Countless opportunities for growth
- Corporate responsibility & sustainability
- 2021 Canada’s Best Diversity Employer
- 2021 Canada’s Greenest Employers
- 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index featured company
- Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) Program company - Gold Level
- And so much more

Sodexo is committed to Employment Equity and Diversity. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of national origin, race, religion, ethnic group, age, disability, gender, sexual preference, sexual or gender identity, status as a veteran or any other federal, provincial or local protected class.

**_ Sodexo is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for our team members, customers, clients, contractors, business partners, guests and members of the public with whom we regularly interact. We require that all new hires in hospitals, long term care facilities, and senior homes to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and may require any other new hires to be fully vaccinated based on the location and scope of their employment._**

**_ Thank you for your interest in Sodexo._**

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