Opening in early 2025, The Standard, Brussels marks the hotel brand’s third outpost in Europe. Set in the city’s Northern Quarter, The Standard, Brussels brings the brand’s design, culture and activation-driven philosophy to Belgium.

With 180 guestrooms (plus 20 residences), the modern, new-build project features many stages for The Standard’s renowned day- and nightlife. A ground-floor greenhouse welcomes guests and locals into the lobby lounge, restaurant, and terrace. Upstairs, The Rooftop features its own restaurant, bar and garden—set to become a neighbourhood destination. Throughout the building, additional public and private event spaces are platforms for happenings.

The Standard, Brussels will welcome a new set of creative, dynamic guests into the brand ethos. In Brussels, The Standard’s signature mix of playful, sophisticated, unexpected hospitality finds roots and resonances in local culture. The simple premise behind The Standard is that it is anything but. Founded in 1999, the goals of every Standard are to up the aesthetic stakes and defy convention while attending to every detail, embracing our local communities, providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for our teams and, of course, delivering a smashing good time for our guests.

We are defined by our richness of personality, diversity of background and lifestyle and are now looking for an Events Manager who will embody our ‘Anything but Standard’ ethos as we commence our pre-opening period.

Your role

As our Events Manager, you will work under the direction of our Director of Sales, and in partnership with our F&B Director you will lead and coordinate the selling of our Event Spaces for the hotel. With 630sqm of multifunctional event space located on the fourth floor of the Hotel, plus 2 expansive restaurants on the ground and 29^th floor, our rooftop terrace and access to the shared urban greenhouse as part of the Zin development, The Standard, Brussels will offer guests multiple event options. With 200 bedrooms (including 20 long stay apartments), Groups and residential events will also be an important market for the hotel.

During the pre-opening period of the hotel, your focus will be to pro-actively develop business leads in order to build your client base grow aware of our event spaces within the local Brussels market. Initially this will involve creating a buzz and anticipation within the market as we prepare to open, through networking with potential partners, clients and conducting ‘hard hat’ tours of the building. During the opening period of the hotel there will be numerous opportunities to entertain and welcome clients to the hotel, through individual fam trips, tours and of course various opening events and parties.

In addition to prospecting calls and the qualifying of new accounts; your role will of course involve a large amount of client entertaining to showcase our different spaces across the property; building links with key corporate clients in conjunction with our Sales team, building relationships and networks with other local non-residential event venues, partners and event bookers. Social & late-night events are a big part of what we do here at The Standard, so you will also focus on developing business with clients seeking to host large parties and venue buyouts.

You’ll be one of our guests’ very first points of contact, responsible for handling a range of Event enquiries including bookings over the telephone, over email or via one of online restaurant booking partners. With overall responsibility for planning Events, parties and functions you’ll provide an important link between the sales and operations teams and with the support of a coordinator will undertake a range of event planning duties Including communicating special requests, dietary need and table plans in conjunction with our Restaurant teams. You’ll also work closely with our F&B managers in order to plan and manage private events in our restaurant spaces to ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained in order to deliver a seamless and effortless level of service.

This is not a ‘Standard’ Events Manager position so you will need to have miles and miles of personality and stamina, be highly social, upbeat, and friendly; confident and can handle pressure well; thrive in a high-volume, high-energy environment and able to work equally well both independently and as part of a team.

Do you have what it takes to be our Events Manager at The Standard, Brussels?

A minimum of 3+ years’ experience Senior Events experience ideally gained within a similar Lifestyle Hotel or large 4- or 5-star Hotel and possibly combined with Groups experience in Brussels or the Benelux region is essential for this role

In addition to this, the ideal candidate will also…

• Have a solid understanding and detailed knowledge of the Brussels Hotel & Events market along with current trends
• Candidates should also have experience in selling and promoting Social Events and Parties
• Be well connected in the city, and have established relationships with local partners in entertainment, music, arts, fashion and cultural events
• Be a confident and proactive self-starter with strong project management skills
• Pre-opening Hotel / Events experience is an advantage
• Have sound commercial understanding in order to maximise revenue across all of the various events spaces.
• Fluency in French and/or Dutch in addition to English is essential for this role
• During our preopening and opening period you may need to have a flexible approach to working hours

We are defined by our richness of personality and diversity of background and lifestyle so if you think you have what it takes to be our Events Manager at The Standard, Brussels we’d love to hear from you.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the European Union. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates prior to commencing employment.

• CDI – Contrat à Durée Indéterminée
• Sales Bonus
• 20 Days Holiday + Public Holidays
• Meals on Duty (once hotel is open)
• Worldwide Travel Discounts via The Standard Advantage platform
• Employee & Family Rates across all Standard and Bunkhouse properties
• In-house Experience Programme
• F&B Discounts ranging from 25-50%
• Recruitment Referral scheme
• Local Transport benefit
• Eco-vouchers
• Social Committee with regular monthly social activities