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Meeting Planner manages conference, events and meetings for customers globally; suggests, plans and creates itineraries using creativity and cost saving options to meet customers’ requirements as well as maximizes revenues.

This is a hybrid role; you would work three days a week from home and twice a week from our office in Budapest.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Handling meetings ranging from 10 people to several thousands
• Managing multiple meetings simultaneously
• Managing Food & Beverage functions – understanding guarantees and limitations
• Planning the logistics of the meeting – from meeting room set up to coordinating breakouts
• Managing rooming lists and arrival/departure lists
• Understanding Attrition Guidelines and Cancellation Penalties – as they pertain to a hotel contract
• Managing Congress registrations
• Handling all types of programs – with varying degrees of importance
• Having a good handle of estimates profit for each meeting – consistently updating the numbers
• Creating customer invoices
• Coordinating with the Service Delivery team to produce a seemless operation between Air and Land
•  Meeting all deliverables externally as well as internally
• Adhering to all internal policies as well as compliance issues
• Being able to pick up and work with all interactive tools , used by Corporate Meeting Solutions

What We're Looking For:

• In depth knowledge of travel products and services
• Advanced PC skills – Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Excellent communication skills verbally and in writing
• Fluent Hungarian and English
• Strong sales and negotiation skills
• Excellent organizational skills and an eye for detail
• Understanding of the financial dynamics of the incentive travel business
• Good knowledge of Card and Business Travel products in order to cross-sell and maximize revenues
• Self motivation, ability to work alone to a very high standard
• Good orientation in multinational key accounts and their requirements
• Good command of issues related to project management and professional experience in purchasing services connected to events’ organization and various event types at all stages

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Location

Budapest, Hungary

     

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.

What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!