Meetings & Events Coordinator

Salary: £18 – £21 per hour

With more than 40 years in the industry and a presence in over 50 countries, our Meetings & Events organization is uniquely positioned to manage meetings and events locally, regionally, and internationally. We plan meetings and events that help our clients achieve their business objectives, maximize savings opportunities, and gain greater visibility into their meetings and events activity and spend.

Key responsibilities

* Management of multiple client’s events, from 10 people up to 1000’s including all aspects of Air Travel

* Deliver outstanding service to the client’s specification including research, budgets, policies, negotiation and management of airlines

* Planning, coordination, and execution of group air travel

* Communicate confidently amongst peers to share best practice

* Achieve targeted financial results whilst delivering high-quality service and demonstrate significant savings on client spend. Financial management throughout the life cycle of the booking.

* Undertake continuous self-development and training.

* Able to work on own initiative and within a team.

Skills /Qualifications

* Knowledge of the airline industry

* Previous group or business travel experience preferred

* GDS (Sabre and/or Apollo preferable) knowledge

* Group and or published airline ticketing experience preferred

* MS Office user

* Negotiation and contracting skills