Tātaki Auckland Unlimited

Title: Catering - Event Coordinator
Date: 28 Feb 2025
Location: Auckland Wide, NZ, 1010

Description:
Auckland Live is the leader in performing arts, culture, entertainment, and events in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, and is Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest performing arts platform. Auckland Conventions, Venues & Events facilitates and delivers exceptional events, including meetings, conferences, exhibitions, gala dinners, and awards ceremony from 10 to 2,000 people.

Auckland Live and Conventions presents events across Auckland's major performing arts venues and stadiums - Aotea Centre, Auckland Town Hall, The Civic, Aotea Square, Bruce Mason Centre, Shed 10, The Cloud, Viaduct Events Centre, Go Media Stadium, North Harbour Stadium, Western Springs Stadium, Auckland Art Gallery and Auckland Zoo.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity
The key purpose of this role is to plan and successfully execute all catering requirements for events allocated by the Assistant Catering Manager for Auckland Live and Auckland Conventions, Venues & Events, including:

Acting as the primary liaison between clients and the catering team, and building and maintaining relationships with a range of national and international clients, internal staff and external suppliers, ensuring the organisation meets client and stakeholder expectations.
Monitoring and managing event catering financials, providing catering reporting, and responsibility for all event catering related administration.
Assisting clients in menu selection, event planning, and special requests.
Providing relevant catering reports to management pre, during and post event that contribute to the team and wider business planning as required.


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He kōrero mōu: About you
To be successful in this exciting role, you will have a minimum of two to three years' catering experience in the area of meetings, Conferences, Trade Shows, Festivals, Community Events or similar, while demonstrated experience in catering planning or coordination is an advantage.

In this role you will have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders, so you will be a strong relationship builder and an excellent communicator. You will be able to easily build rapport with a range of people and have a strong customer service ethic.

You will be confident with using Microsoft suite and venue management systems, be solution focused and able to keep a level head in high-pressure situations. The role will require the ability to prioritise and manage workload, with effective use of time management skills and managing of multiple tasks.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer
This is an opportunity to work with a highly engaged and motivated team, who are committed to diversity and have a culture built on trust and valuing individual and collective contributions.

We offer a competitive salary, long service leave and learning and development opportunities.
Work with a team of dedicated and respected experts who share a passion for making a difference.
As part of Auckland Council Group, you'll gain access to many benefits and discounts, including discounted financial services and insurance, entertainment, lifestyle discounts and more.
If you are keen to seize this opportunity, apply today and tell us in your cover letter why you'd make a great fit!

Applications close Friday 14 March 5pm 2025

We may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the roles. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, a CCO of Auckland Council is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and we are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application to assist you through the recruitment process.

He kōrero mō Tātaki: About Tātaki
Tātaki Auckland Unlimited is part of the Auckland Council whānau, responsible for Auckland Live, Auckland Zoo, Auckland Conventions, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland Stadiums, and many of the festivals and events that make Auckland a great place to live and visit.

Our people are driven by passion and a sense of service to Aucklanders. What we share is our love of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and our passion about the work we each do to make it a dynamic and exciting place. 

Each part of Tātaki is important, but when we come together, we bind into something more powerful than the sum of our parts. We all work in partnership with each other and our delivery partners, to make Tāmaki Makaurau a vibrant place where everyone can thrive.