Job Summary
The Assistant Director of Events provides strategic leadership for the planning and delivery of contracted corporate and social events, as well as catering enquiries with or without guest rooms. The role leads, delegates, coaches and develops the Events team, building the capability and confidence of managers, supervisors, coordinators and trainees to take ownership of their programmes and deliver consistently at luxury-service standards. Maintaining oversight from sales handover through post-event follow-up, the position sets clear priorities, strengthens workflows, anticipates operational and financial risks, and ensures effective cross-functional coordination. With a strong commercial and business-development focus, the role trains the team to maximise total-event revenue and leads the creation of new social, corporate, offsite-catering and Marquee business solutions, including the Marquee’s catering-only proposition, market positioning, pricing approach and operating model.
Core Work Activities
• Drive a strong commercial mindset across the department by training the team to identify and convert relevant upselling opportunities across food and beverage, venues, audiovisual, spa, recreation, transportation and resort experiences.
• Lead the development of new business solutions for the Marquee, including a clear catering-only proposition, market positioning, lead-routing process, pricing approach, operating model and commercial follow-up.
• Create and implement innovative social, corporate, offsite-dinner and offsite-catering concepts in partnership with Culinary, Food & Beverage, Operations, Finance, Sales, Revenue and approved external partners.
• Build a structured business-development plan for catering and event opportunities,



strengthen relationships with planners and partners, and convert client feedback into repeat, referral and new-business potential.
• Establish clear ownership for event documentation, financial follow-up and recaps; review performance with the team and ensure discrepancies, risks and lessons learned are addressed promptly.
• Act as the strategic link between clients, the Events team and property leadership, remaining visible during key moments while enabling team members to lead day-to-day planning and client communication with confidence.
• Provide visible, strategic leadership to the Events team, setting clear priorities, service expectations and commercial objectives aligned with the property’s business plan.
• Delegate confirmed events and new catering enquiries according to team capability, workload, programme complexity and development needs, while maintaining clear accountability for results.
• Coach, train and empower managers, supervisors, coordinators and trainees to take ownership of their files, make sound decisions and deliver consistently at luxury-service standards.
• Build individual development plans, provide regular feedback and create structured learning opportunities through file reviews, shadowing, cross-training and progressive delegation.
• Develop Supervisors’ capability to lead large groups, complex programmes and full or partial buyouts,



intervening directly only where senior leadership or strategic support adds value.
• Review and improve workflows, tools and standards across the full event journey to reduce unnecessary workload, strengthen efficiency and enable the team to focus on high-value client and commercial activities.
• Ensure the team understands all contractual commitments, commercial conditions and client objectives before planning begins, and coach associates to resolve outstanding points proactively.
• Maintain strategic oversight of the event portfolio from turnover through post-event follow-up, using regular reviews to anticipate operational risks, programme conflicts, financial exposure and service opportunities.
• Empower the team to translate client requirements into clear operational plans and lead cross-functional coordination with Food & Beverage, Culinary, Banquets, Rooms, Spa, Engineering, Loss Prevention, Transportation and other resort teams.
Leadership and Business Responsibilities
• Create a high-performance team culture built on Marriott values, luxury-service standards, clear accountability and confident ownership of each event programme.
• Lead through structured delegation, coaching and progressive development, using workload allocation, individual development plans, file reviews, shadowing and cross-training to strengthen capability at every level.
• Build strong cross-functional and external partnerships to develop commercially viable social, corporate, offsite-catering and Marquee solutions, in line with property procurement, approval and operating requirements.
• Translate event performance, client feedback, market intelligence and financial results into business-development pri

📌 Assistant Director of Events (Italia)
🏢 Marriott International
📍 Italia