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Events Manager
Role summary
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The Events Manager is responsible for planning, selling, coordinating, and delivering meetings, conferences, weddings, and other events at Makati Shangri-La, Manila. Candidates typically need a bachelor’s degree in hospitality, business, marketing, or a related field, together with several years of hotel events, catering, or banqueting experience. Strong communication, negotiation, organization, budgeting, and customer-service skills are essential. The role expects the candidate to manage client relationships, prepare proposals and contracts, coordinate closely with operations and suppliers, monitor event revenue, and ensure every function meets Shangri-La’s service standards. Flexibility, attention to detail, leadership, and the ability to work under pressure, including evenings and weekends, are important.
Can I work in the Philippines?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: The employer files a work permit (Alien Employment Permit) after a local-first job notice, then a 9(g) visa; hotels get permits for specialists, not line staff.
Watch for: From 11 November 2026: job notice online, decision in 10 working days. Filing is online only, at the labour department's central office, since 2026.
Official source: Bureau of Immigration: Pre-arranged Employment Visa (9G). Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the Philippines
Usual for the Philippines, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Not in city hotels; island resorts (Boracay, Siargao) may give shared staff quarters |
|---|---|
| Meals | Duty meals in the staff canteen |
| Flights | Senior packages only |
| Service charge | All of it shared equally among staff except managers (by law); the amount varies by hotel |
| Contract | Probation up to 6 months (by law); foreigners' contracts follow the permit, 1 to 3 years |
| Leave | 5 days after 1 year; 10 regular holidays; 13th-month pay (by law) |
| Income tax | 0% to PHP 250,000 a year (about USD 4,000), then 15% to 35% |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About Makati Shangri-La, Manila
Makati Shangri-La, Manila is a luxury five-star hotel in the heart of Makati, the Philippines’ major business and commercial district. It is part of Shangri-La Group, an international hospitality company known for upscale hotels, resorts, and exceptional Asian-inspired service. The property serves business travelers, leisure guests, diplomats, and large corporate and social events. Its facilities typically include well-appointed guest rooms, restaurants, lounges, meeting venues, banquet spaces, recreational amenities, and professional event services. Employees work in a polished, multicultural environment where guest care, teamwork, presentation, and operational excellence are strongly valued. The hotel offers career opportunities across hospitality departments, including events, food and beverage, rooms, sales, finance, engineering, and guest services. Exact benefits and compensation depend on the position, experience, and the hotel’s current employment policies.