Event Manager
Newton, MAFull-timeSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Event Manager represents the company to customers and supervises planning and coordination for assigned group catering and events. The role prepares event documentation and coordinates with Sales, hotel departments, and customers across pre-event, event, and post-event phases. It also focuses on maximizing revenue through upselling and enhancements, maintaining customer relationships, and responding to guest needs.
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Additional Information
Job Number 26145403
Job Category Event Management
Location 2345 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton MA 02466, United States VIEW ON MAP (https://www.google.com/maps?q=2345%20Commonwealth%20Avenue%2C%20Newton%20MA%2002466%2C%20United%20States)
Schedule Full Time
Located Remotely? N
Position Type Management
Expiration Date: 12/21/2026
Additional Information: This hotel is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, Pyramid Global Hospitality . The franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from Marriott International, Inc. The franchisee solely controls all aspects of the hotel’s employment policies and practices, including hiring, firing, discipline, staffing, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you accept a position at this hotel, you will be employed by a franchisee and not by Marriott International, Inc.
Job Summary:
The Event Manager is responsible for representing the company to customers and supervises the coordination and planning for assigned group catering and events.
Perform and supervise preparation for group catering and events including completion of Banquet Event Order (BEO), meeting room set up specifications, banquet food and beverage, audio visual, program details, attrition, deposits, billing details and collection of payments in compliance with cash handling, credit card transactions and accounting policies and procedures.
Prepare all event documentation and coordinate with Sales, hotel departments and customer to ensure consistent, high-level service throughout the pre-event, event and post-event phases of hotel events. Ensure seamless turnover from sales to service and then back to sales. Recognize opportunities to maximize revenue by up-selling and offering enhancements to create outstanding events.
Has knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Skilled originality and has the ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about products, services or situations or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. Practices being adaptable and have the ability to effectively adjust to major changes in work tasks or the work environment.
Possess a strong customer focus to develop and sustain productive customer relationships; actively seeks information to understand and address customer needs. Ensure maintenance problems are promptly reported to Engineering through proper channels. Order supplies and maintain accurate inventory as assigned. Respond to guest requests, concerns and problems to ensure guest satisfaction.
Qualifications:
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Education plus schooling in hotel/restaurant management or related major.
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Two or more years of related experience in a high-volume environment.
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Familiarity with hospitality industry practices and Marriott Systems preferred.
Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Plans, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, PTO, Sick, Paid Holidays
This company is an equal opportunity employer.
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How this job compares
Set against the 364 open Event Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$67–103K/yr257 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Event Manager jobs in Massachusetts and 364 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Event Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 305 postings).
- Education
- 38 of the 364 open Event Manager jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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