Sales Executive - Social Events

Job Description

The Sales Executive – Social Events is responsible for promoting Novotel Jakarta Cikini as a venue for weddings, celebrations, birthdays, private gatherings, and other social functions. Key duties include finding new customers, managing enquiries, preparing proposals, conducting venue tours, negotiating packages, coordinating event details with hotel departments, and achieving revenue targets. Candidates are generally expected to have experience in hotel sales, catering, events, or a related field, along with strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and customer-service skills. Knowledge of Jakarta’s social-event market and local business networks is advantageous. The successful candidate should be target-driven, well organised, confident with clients, commercially aware, and able to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and public holidays when events require support.

Company Info

Novotel Jakarta Cikini is a contemporary four-star hotel operated under Accor, one of the world’s leading hospitality groups. Located in Central Jakarta, the hotel serves business travellers, tourists, families, and local residents attending meetings, weddings, celebrations, and social events. Its facilities typically include accommodation, restaurants, meeting and event spaces, fitness or leisure services, and professional banquet support. As part of the Novotel brand, the property focuses on comfortable stays, practical design, warm service, and reliable facilities for both work and leisure. Accor offers employees access to international hospitality standards, structured training, career mobility, and staff benefits that may include room discounts across its global hotel network. The Jakarta Cikini location is well positioned near offices, cultural attractions, shopping areas, hospitals, and transport connections, making it a suitable venue for social-event sales and relationship building within the city’s active corporate and community market.

Destination Guide

Indonesia is an archipelago, and this role is based on Java Island in Jakarta, the country’s commercial and political centre. Hospitality opportunities are widely available in Jakarta, Bali, Java’s major cities, and resort destinations such as Lombok, although competition can be strong. Jakarta offers busy urban living, diverse restaurants, shopping, nightlife, and extensive professional networks, while Bali and other islands provide a slower, tourism-focused lifestyle. Indonesian culture places importance on politeness, community, religious diversity, and respectful communication; learning basic Bahasa Indonesia is highly useful. Foreign applicants normally need employer sponsorship and the appropriate work KITAS and work permit before starting employment. Requirements and processing rules can change, so confirmation with the employer and Indonesian immigration authorities is essential. Relocation costs, traffic, humidity, healthcare access, accommodation, and local transport should be considered. Central Jakarta rents vary considerably, while staff housing is not always provided.