Welmie Turner

Experience

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  EDU Africa

  Mar 2012 - Sept 2012

  PA to GM and MD and Admin Administrator

  Personal assistant to MD and GM.Handle all office admin (vehicle services, Telkom, cell phone queries, applications).Filing trip planners and maintain client database and trip feedback capturing.Preparing pre trip documents.Ordering and distribution of stationery/ merchandise.Diary management.Staff admin (leave, documentation etc).MD travel and accommodation arrangements.Income and expenditure recons of trips.Petty cash management.Payments and invoicing.Tour Guide petty cash and allocate trip funds.Monthly/ weekly expenditure and monthly accounts EFT Banking.Keeping accurate records and a tidy, organised office. Show less

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  Pigalle Restaurant

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2017

  Event Coordinator

  Liaise with clients about events and offer suggestions to ensure their requests can be met. Negotiate the type and costs of services to be provided, in line with a budget. Ensure the venue is appropriately set up, with regard to seating and decor. Consult with management to ensure adequate staff members are rostered for duty.Consult with catering staff to plan the menu.Consult with service providers such as entertainers and decor companies. Book talent; including musicians and bands. Sample food and select dishes for menus. Coordinate and monitor event timelines and ensure deadlines are met. Manage correspondence. Find solutions to problems that arise concerning services or programmes provided. Advise senior management on matters requiring their attention and implement their decisions. Working with corporate and individual clientele.Follow up with clients to arrange payment and, after the event, to evaluate the service provided.Daily opening of office and upkeep of office.Ordering of stationery, business cards and restaurant brochures.Updating current restaurant menu prices and printing new menus.Assist in the opening of a new business, Pigalles' sister restaurant.Planning of the annual Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve dinners/ events.Designing of menus for Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve and for clients personal events. Show less

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  Gloss Events

  Jul 2017 - now

  Event Operations Manager

  Conferences, Symposia, Exhibitions and Incentives | Operations ManagerClients:Fiera Milano Exhibitions Africa - Investec Cape Town Art FairICE SolutionAfrican AgendaWe Are Africa

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  PIE Management

  Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  Event Planner and Operations

  Working with PIE Management to Co-ordinator and run an Old Mutual Sales Conference for up to 750 guests at Sun City, Northern Cape (2017) and up to 800 guests in the Drakensberg, Kwa-Zulu Natal (2018). Checking of flights, rooming and transfer lists. Assisting with guests check in at the hotel. Checking with the hotel reception to ensure all guests have rooms and are booked in correctly.Assisting all guests to the busses and conference venue’s daily. Assisting in checking, set up of conference and dinner venues. Assisting in the running of the Awards dinner. Checking to ensure that all guests have transfers to the correct airport. Assisting guests to get onto the correct bus for the airport transfer. Being available to help guests with questions/ directions / information. Show less

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  2U

  Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

  Event Assistant and Operations