The Sales Manager is responsible for all local sales activities, accounts, and meetings in
line with the annual sales and marketing plan. They work in a Smart and savvy way to
achieve hotel budgets. They are creative in their approach and work towards a successful
hotel sales strategy
People
- Manage key accounts and their hotel history
- Travel when required to promote the hotel and develop potential business
- Maintain regular contact with the IHG hotels in the immediate region and regional
reservations
- Travel when required to promote the hotel and develop potential business.
- Interfaces with operations on a timely basis regarding future and existing needs for
customers
- Work with other department managers to ensure proper staffing levels based on guest
volume.
Guest experience
- Provide guests with information (example: loyalty programs, programs, area attractions, area attractions,
restaurants, facility information) to enhance guest experience.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key clients
- Follows Holiday Inn Express behaviors behaviors when working with internal and external when working with internal and external customers
- Develop and maintain a regular pattern of sales calls, meeting with principals of target
market
- Provides direction on, and conducts market research and analysis
- Develops and maintains contact business generators, meeting, and convention planners,
visitors/convention bureau, travel agents, tour operators, airlines, corporate accounts,
Government Departments and other producers closely aligned to hotel business
- Schedule conventions and/or business group activities at the hotel and coordinate with
other hotel-level departments to facilitate services agreed upon by the sales office and level departments to facilitate services agreed upon by the sales office and
prospective clients.
- Builds profile within local market place through attendance at appropriate events
- Entertain clients with a view to maximizing business opportunities
- Liaison with advertising agency if and when required
What we need from you
- Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in marketing or related field,
- and three or four years’ experience in a hospitality or hotel sales and marketing setting or and three or four years’ experience in a hospitality or hotel sales and marketing setting or
- an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Must speak fluent English. an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Must speak fluent English.
- Other languages preferred. O
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