Director of Catering

Director Of Catering

The Director of Catering leads all catering sales, planning and execution for social and corporate events at The Beverly Hills Hotel, maintaining the property's legendary service across weddings, galas, corporate functions as well as entertainment industry gatherings to name a few. This role partners closely with Sales, Banquets, Culinary, Marketing and Operations to deliver seamless, high touch events that reflect the hotel's iconic reputation.

• Drive catering revenue by managing the full sales cycle: prospecting, proposals, contracts, and closing.

• Lead, mentor, manage, develop, train and counsel catering and conference services staff.

• Set individual and department production goals as well as conduct employee performance evaluation reviews and action plans as required.

• Actively participate in catering sales presentations, property tours and customer meetings.

• Prepare, implement and compile data for Strategic Sales Plan, weekly forecasting and Month-end reports, annual goals, and any other required data for the Catering team.

• Participate in Rev-Max meetings (as needed), sales strategy meeting, revenue meetings, pre-convention meetings, training and other sales related meetings as required.

• Consults in full service event planning and finalizes contracts, estimate sheets and diagrams, with clients according to catering sales service standards.

• Confirm payments, guarantees, set-ups and signed contracts and changes with clients.

• Generate detailed banquet event orders according to contract.

• Review and inspect banquet rooms and displays with Banquet Manager for conformance to client needs.

• Directs workers in preparing banquet and convention rooms and erecting displays and exhibits.

• Detail client data in Historical/Tracking Client Files.

• Compile data on competitive set pricing and options as required.

• Conduct weekly Catering Meetings.

• Participate to all Division meetings.

• Assist all F&B Operations as directed.

• Fulfill scheduled Event Management Coverage Detail.

• Compute menu cost in event planning for in-house statistics

• Ensure compliance with health, safety and brand standards across all catered events