Manager of Partnership Development and Event Sales

● Manage all private events, corporate events in the aquarium
● Organize and manage annual gala, all fundraisers, and concerts for the aquarium.
● Manage sponsorships
● Promote and sell private events including weddings, corporate groups, and private parties
● Coordinated and hire vendors for all public events, including catering, decorations, entertainment, and, programming
● Created a weekly and annual sales budgets displaying revenue metrics and contribution to annual goals
● Surpassed my yearly sales goal by over 30% in 2021 and 2022
● Yearly strategic planning for promoting and selling all programs at the aquarium
● Attend weekly event operations and sales meetings
● Mange exciting partnerships and create new partnerships with tour operators, hotels, DMOs, OTAs, CVBS, and other attractions
● Coordinate advertising for events and programs for the aquarium
● Create pricing for wholesale agreements
Sales and Events Coordinator
● Group sales including schools, senior, international tour groups, youth groups, family, FAMs
● Assist with annual gala planning
● Respond to event inquires
● Coordinate events at Aquarium

● Search for restaurants to join Club Feast
● Built restaurant relations
● Create menus for app
● Onboard Restaurants

● Organized domestic and international travel for celebrity chef
● Created expense reports and worked with HR for budgeting
● Project management for four locations
● Organized emails and calendar
Events Assistant Manager
● Contacted and organized vendors
● Managed invoices
● Planned wedding receptions, private dinners, charity events
● Event management
● Coordinated and finalized events details
Customer Service Supervisor
● Booked and confirmed 100 reservations a day
● Hired and trained reservation team
● Created a new training program for new hires