Cleaver Co is New York City's preeminent green caterer. We offer complete event planning services and produce a wide range of private, corporate and non-profit events.

We know every event is unique and that catering is performance art. Our talented chefs and expert party planners work with you to create a personalized menu and setting that reflect your tastes and sensibility. Our seasoned captains and wait staff see to every detail so your event progresses seamlessly - leaving you free to relax and enjoy your guests.

With 40 years of experience, our core belief remains: food must delight the palate, please the eye and satisfy the conscience.

We're also proud to operate Table Green and Table Green Café in one of New York City’s most beautiful parks in partnership with The Battery Conservancy.

Table Green features local beer and wine on tap, grilled sandwiches, harvest salads and snacks. Table Green Café offers Brooklyn Roasting Crop-to-Cup coffee and espresso, ready to eat sandwiches, handmade pastries and cookies and much more.

Cleaver Co, New York’s premier sustainable catering and events firm, seeks an event producer to join our event planning team. We are looking for a smart, passionate, detail-loving, lively individual to join us in producing a wide range of private, corporate and non-profit events. You will be producing all off-premise events and assisting the event planning team.

The work spans 360-degree event production: planning and overseeing the development of information packs and equipment that accompany each event; managing the flow of party information to all vendors, kitchen and off-site event staff; coordinating all outside vendors, organizing vendor and client correspondence, tracking vendor billing and preparing client invoices.

Primary duties include:

• Manage and update event calendar, ensuring all details are captured/communicated for each event: menus, production and rental equipment details, etc.
• Manage communication and flow of information internally (kitchen, catering staff, loading dock porters) and externally (clients and vendors)
• Create and oversee the development of information packs and equipment that accompany events
• Work with the Event Planners and Kitchen team to prepare equipment for off-site events
• Maintain an up-to-date companywide equipment inventory and plan
• Regularly review equipment for quality control and organize replacements when pieces are damaged
• Organize vendor and client correspondence, track invoices and petty cash, and manage billing
• Coordinate and run weekly production meeting with all departments
• Assist event planners with customizing event proposals

Candidate must:

• Possess a high comfort level in a collaborative work environment, be flexible and roll with changes. A solution-based mindset is imperative
• Be highly detail oriented and organized, with impeccable oral and written communication skills, as well as strong time management and prioritization skills. Must have effective client relationship abilities
• Have at least 4 years of work experience in the hospitality field, specifically in the off-premise catering or event planning industry
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and Google Apps. Experience with Total Party Planner or similar events software preferred

This is a full time, salaried position with benefits and with room for growth. Evenings and weekends will be required, as the calendar dictates.