Eliza Nicola

Experience

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  Holiday Inn

  Aug 2007 - Feb 2010

  Catering Manager

  Selling qualified catered functions involving less than ten guest rooms per night. Being client’s mainpoint of contact in planning events, developing menus, room decorations, billing, and audio/visualequipment. Collaborating with all staff through group resumes and Banquet Event Orders to ensuresuccessful execution of events.

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  Millennium Maxwell House Hotel

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2012

  Social Catering Manager

  Meeting monthly/quarterly/yearly goals by selling hotel event space for social functions & weddingguest rooms. Activities included: property tours, trade shows, menu tastings, outside sales calls.Handled daily negotiations of event contracts and enforced all set minimums and attrition thereof.

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  Hilton Garden Inn

  Jul 2012 - Dec 2013

  Social Catering Manager

  Responding to phone and email inquires. Regularly scheduled sales calls and email prospectingcampaigns to generate catering business along with hotel guest room blocks. Completely updatedmenus and catering policies. Detailing events, creating house accounts, processing billing, settinggroup block rates and cut off dates as well as entering rooming list reservations.

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  Morton's The Steakhouse

  Jan 2014 - Feb 2019

  Sales and Event Manager

  Selling Private Dining Space for group functions. Creating and implementing a marketing plan, building relationships with concierges and local businesses, making cold calls, conducting sales calls and site visits, sending out and following up on proposals, and developing new ways to promote Morton’s private dining space. Additional duties include teaming with clients to plan memorable events, working with Restaurant Support Center staff to obtain collateral for events, updating client contacts and account activity in SalesForce and resolving guest issues. Negotiating contracts and receiving deposits, creating banquet event orders & distributing to the management team, weekly sales forecasts, meeting monthly and yearly goals. Show less

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  Airbnb

  Dec 2018 - Sept 2022

  AirBnb Super Host
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  The ONE Group

  Feb 2019 - May 2020

  Event Manager

  STK Steakhouse artfully blends the modern steakhouse and a chic lounge into one, offering a dynamic, fine dining experience with the superior quality of a traditional steakhouse.

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  National Corvette Museum

  Feb 2023 - now

  Senior Sales Manager of Facility Rentals