Sales Manager - Corporate

Your Day To Day • Sell hotel room nights through direct client contact; maintain a high level of visibility for the hotel in major market areas through direct sales solicitation; telephone contacts and written communication. • Review the daily business levels, anticipate critical situations, and plan effective solutions in conjunction with your manager to best expedite these situations. • Implement tactical sales plans as assigned to achieve greater profitability through driving revenue and enhancing the image of the hotel in the local community. • Develop and maintain good relationships with officials and representatives of local companies, and attend out-of-town conventions and trade shows, to promote new business and increase sales for the hotel. • Identify new business opportunities and expand market share. • Demonstrate co-operation and trust with colleagues, supervisors, teams and across departments to deliver positive results. • Actively participate in hotel meetings, interact with department and hotel staff in a professional and positive manner to foster good rapport, promote team spirit and ensure effective communication . • Provide guests with information (example: loyalty programmes, area attractions, restaurants, facility information) to enhance guest experience. • Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and outside contacts in order to produce group and/or convention business, to include room sales, food & beverage sales, and catering/banquet services. • 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 prospective clients. • Identify operational problems that reduce the effectiveness of marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with appropriate department on solutions. • Develop awareness and reputation of the hotel and the brand in the local community. • Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyze current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share, monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan. • Perform other duties as assigned. What We Need From You • Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent • Two years of experience in a hospitality or hotel sales setting with direct supervisory experience over a sales team, or an equivalent combination of work experience. • Strong knowledge of local businesses and business trends required. • Must speak local language(s). • Other languages preferred.