National Private Events Director - The Gathering Spot Atlanta

The National Private Events Director will oversee the sales strategy, client retention efforts and manage the events teams nationally across our Atlanta, DC and Los Angeles Clubs.

The director will be passionate about ongoing professional development for the department, as well as providing a world class hospitality experience to event clients nationwide.    Supervisory Responsibilities :

• Hires, trains, manages, and schedules event planning and support team.
• Ensures current reports and checklists are completed by each planner for every event.

Facilitates weekly meetings with the team to discuss and review client feedback, upcoming events, remaining balances and any other department or company wide updates.   Duties / Responsibilities :

Collaborate with the club’s GM’s, National Executive Chef and Banquet Managers on ways to elevate event execution and client experience.  Lead weekly meetings such as :

Maintains current knowledge of event planning standards and trends by attending seminars, consulting with other professionals, joining event organizations such as NACE, WIPA, MPI, ILEA, etc. and reading trade publications.  Ensure all department assets are up to date.  Performs other related duties as assigned.   Required Skills / Abilities :