Owner & Manager
At The Oak Ridge Events LLC.
Pine Grove, LA
01.2021 - Current
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
- Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
- Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts and costs.
- Reconciled daily sales, and financial reports, inventory, taxes, payroll ,& HR
- Created and monitored promotional approaches to increase sales and profit levels.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
- Established, optimized and enforced business policies to maintain consistency and high-quality standards across industry operations.
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
- Managed administrative logistics of events planning, event booking and event promotions.
- Coordinated weddings, reunions, and corporate meetings throughout banquet and conference space catering services and planned menus to compliment event theme and selected musical or guest speaker entertainment.
- Coordinated florists, photographers, videographers, musicians, officiants and ceremony participants during rehearsals and pre-ceremony, ceremony and reception events.
- Liaised with marketing and PR colleagues to promote special events in social calendars.
- Assisted with marketing strategy creation and advertising initiatives to better promote facility to public.
- Performed cost-benefit analysis for corporate and social events.
