Catering Manager - Event Manager- Bilingual

JARLEIN ESCOBAR

**** ******** ****** *** **** Ca 95129

Phone: 408-***-****

Email: ad5vut@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

●ULACIT

Marketing and Sales Degree

Laureate International University

Panama City, Panama

●NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA

Primary School English Teaching Degree

Panama City, Panama

WORK EXPERIENCE

SOUTH-BAY CATERING- Events Planner/Catering Manager December 2016-Present

Responsibilities include: Customer Service Work with Customer to determine Vision Determine the various rentals required delivery and set-up Manage/Coordinate Events Scheduling Events Decoration Menus Planning/Customer Proposals Vendors coordination and contracts (Food, Rentals, Staff) Staff management (Hire, train, schedule, coach) Work closely with kitchen staff and chefs to coordinate Menus, Food deliveries, Scheduling, Service

Supervise set-up, service, and clean-up/tear-down after events Create event calendars, briefs and budgets for each event Create weekly blogs to post on the company website, as well as social media.

CP FINE CATERING- Event Manager

January 2015- November 17

Responsibilities included: Customer service, Execute catering proposals, Event Management on site, Venue Contracts, Staff Training and Hiring process, Manage rentals warehouse and delivery/pickups, Supervise Route Drivers for delivery orders Organized rentals warehouse, managed delivery trucks fleet and maintenance. CP FINE CATERING - Bakery Manager

Responsibilities included: Customer service, Bakery daily inventory and supply, Orders scheduling and deliveries, Wedding tastings

QUALCOMM – Administrative Assistant

March 2014 – December 2015

Responsibilities included: Front Desk Receptionist coverage; Daily monitoring of supplies and i nventory for conference rooms. Mail delivery to all engineers and recordkeeping of UPS, FedEx deliveries; Customer Service to all internal customers, responsiveness measured b y automatic system by urgency and level of satisfaction. COVIDIEN - Marketing Coordinator for Central America September 2011- January 2013

Responsibilities included:Budget Management for the Marketing department for the Cen tral America Region, supporting all service distributors and for advertising of brand nam e; Booth Design for all medical activities, following all branding, designs, colors, formats of Covidien brands; publicity,

magazines and televised medical reports; Advertising; Product demonstrations teaming with the Sales department of latest medical trends; Event Planner, planning of all company events for employees, customer events, selection of menus, locations and supervision

of development of each event while tracking and staying within approved budgets; Cust omer Service, working closely with the Sales Department and follow-up of customer equipment evaluations of products.

BLACK AND DECKER - Key Accounts Manager

April 2011- September 2011

Responsibilities included: Sales, point-of-sales in Panama and Central America; Event Planning and Scheduling of Distributor-sponsored product trainings; Customer Service handling all product returns, repairs, and product demonstrations; Monthly Inventory to ensure an acceptable level of merchandise at customer’s stores and entering new customer orders; Monthly reports of corporate sales. RIBA SMITH SUPERMARKETS - Marketing Research & Product Development Coordinator April 2002 - March 2011

Responsibilities included: Analyst of USA imports, conduct product research and identification of in-country competitors resulting in product price recommendations. Weekly studies of internal sales of imported products, comparative product sales to identify spaces and price changes, necessary promotions; Packaging Study working closely with the Packaging Design department looking for latest trends; Supervision of customer service group, product demonstrations at (4) stores; Market research of competitors supermarkets, price investigations of competitor brands, restaurants for the purpose of gaining knowledge for future Riba Smith Supermarkets; Visits to distributors to check for expiration dates, shelves location, prices and the good use of the Riba Smith branding. Stock supervisor; Merchandise rotations; Monthly Sales Statistics to Sales and Marketing management teams. LANGUAGES

Fluent Spanish and English

SKILLS

Leadership Teamwork Communication Decision Making Detail Oriented Strong Interpersonal Skills Adaptability Time Management Organizing & Planning.

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