Experienced restaurant specialist, with 15 years spent managing a department for a leading luxury lifestyle brand, and an overall 23 years’ experience in 5-star hospitality. I designed a dining programme tailored to the ultra-high-net individual and high-profile corporate brands, setting and maintaining standards for delivery of Quintessentially's restaurant service to members across 40+ offices globally.
• Consistently deliver 5-star service to members, including handling and resolving complaints, resulting in annual membership fees being renewed and upgrades to higher membership tiers
• The restaurants category is consistently the most requested aspect of Q's service, generating over 35% of the overall request volume annually
• Expert in global supplier relations, networking and nurturing partnerships, leading to Q consistently achieving at least 70% success rate on booking members' preferred restaurant choice
• Curate, manage and host high-profile private events in partnership with leading chefs, one of which is The Supper Club, Q's branded dining event series
• Play a key role in tailoring dining programmes for brands such as Burberry, Cartier & Dior as part of an overall event strategy Q was commissioned to deliver
• Regularly generate unique member incentives by which to promote restaurant partners
• Responsible for content creation for all restaurant related marketing material and member comms
• Played a key role in the creation of a member portal and mobile app, ensuring all global offices provided accurate content for restaurants in all territories
• Responsible for line managing, training and developing the subordinate role of junior restaurant specialist in current structure; acted as mentor for a number of colleagues across the organisation given length of service and knowledge of the company