Banquet Sales Manager

The Banquet Sales Manager is responsible for driving sales, maximizing revenue, and ensuring a seamless booking experience for clients. This role involves handling banquet inquiries, client negotiations, event planning coordination, and maintaining strong relationships with corporate and social clients to position the venue as a preferred choice for premium and luxury events. You will develop and implement strategic sales plans to achieve revenue targets, identify new business opportunities, and build relationships with corporate clients, event planners, wedding planners, and travel agents. Conducting sales calls, site inspections, and client meetings to promote banquet offerings, negotiate contracts, pricing, and packages to maximize profitability while ensuring client satisfaction. In terms of client relationship management, you will provide personalized service and consultation to clients, maintain ongoing communication from initial inquiry to post-event follow-up, and address client concerns or special requests with a customer-first approach. Your responsibilities will also include working closely with the banquet operations and culinary teams to ensure seamless execution of events, assisting in menu planning, seating arrangements, and event logistics in alignment with client expectations. Collaborating with the marketing team, you will develop promotional strategies, offers, and campaigns, represent the banquet venue at industry events, exhibitions, and networking platforms, and maintain a strong online and offline presence to attract high-profile clientele. Additionally, you will track and analyze sales performance, market trends, and competitor activities, provide regular sales forecasts, reports, and insights to senior management, and ensure adherence to budgeted revenue and profitability goals.,