Corporate Event Designer

Corporate Event Designer Event Sales & Design Consultant Zilli Hospitality Group | Brookfield, WI | Full-Time The Opportunity, At a Glance Earning potential: $60,000-$70,000 base salary + bonus potential discussed at interview. Your leads: a mix of inbound inquiries already interested in Zilli and the relationships and referrals you build yourself. Your support system: full culinary, operations, production and venue teams behind every proposal, so your job is the vision and the close, not the execution. Your book: you own your pipeline from first conversation to signed contract, and every relationship you build keeps paying off in repeat and referral business. Own the Client Journey from Inquiry to Booking At Zilli Hospitality Group, our Event Designers are often among the first people a client meets. A corporate client may have an objective, a guest count and no idea what the event should look like yet. A nonprofit may be searching for a way to make an annual gala feel entirely new. That is where you come in. As an Event Designer, you will take a prospective client from inquiry to idea to proposal to booked event. You will ask the questions that uncover what matters to them, help them imagine what is possible, and bring together food, beverage, service, space, design and experience into a proposal that feels thoughtful, exciting and personal. And then you will ask for the business. This is a role for someone who loves the creative side of events and gets equally excited about winning the sale.

You hear "new inquiry" and immediately want to know more. You can talk with someone for twenty minutes and begin seeing their event in your head. You love putting ideas together, and you also love the moment a client says, "This is exactly what we were looking for."You follow up because you are genuinely interested in earning the business. You can manage several opportunities at different stages without losing sight of what each client cares about. You understand that a beautiful proposal is the beginning of the conversation, and you know how to present it, explain it, refine it and move the client toward a decision. You have taste, curiosity and ideas. You also have drive. You want to book business. Why Zilli Zilli Hospitality Group has spent decades building a reputation across Milwaukee and Southwestern Wisconsin for events that feel personal, polished and genuinely memorable. As an Event Designer here, your ideas become real experiences, and your ability to close the deal is what makes that possible for every client who walks through the door. Full-time team members enjoy: Medical, dental and vision insurance Paid time off Life insurance 401(k) with eligibility after one year Flexible scheduling On-site meals Continuing education support Work-from-home flexibility Real opportunities for career advancement within a growing hospitality group Equal Opportunity Employer