Sales Manager, STR - Singapore

Sales Manager, STR - Singapore Job Description COSTAR GROUP- SALES MANAGER, STR- SINGAPORE OVERVIEW CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. STR is the global leader in hospitality data benchmarking, analytics and marketplace insights for the global hospitality industry. STR delivers data that is confidential, accurate and actionable to empower our clients to strategize and compete in their markets. Learn more about STR . ROLE DESCRIPTION Ensuring that STR maintains its position as the market leader in global hotel benchmarking, you will be responsible for sustaining and driving the growth of hotel participants and wider industry clients from the agreed strategy for the region. You will own the full sales cycle – prospecting, lead qualification and nurturing, closing the sale, onboarding, training and subscription renewal. This role offers a variety of daily tasks, which help us to give our clients an effective and efficient service whilst protecting our data integrity and quality. You will be responsible for supporting and building relationships with clients. As you will be in regular contact with clients (both external and internal) strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills are required. You will be an expert for your region, providing valuable insights to clients that build their knowledge of benchmarking and the value derived from STR’s solutions. Being highly organized and having attention to detail is essential in supporting the regional team to facilitate varied engagement activities with existing and prospective accommodation and industry clients. To be successful you will need to be confident in dealing with numbers and have a strong eye for detail, an understanding of hotel performance statistics is essential. Prior experience in one or more of managing accounts, sales lead generation and hospitality industry experience is an advantage. CoStar Group and the division of STR prides itself to a collective attitude where each individual can and will have a vital impact on our progress and growth. Each team member needs to manage their own time effectively with a great deal of autonomy but still be able to connect, engage and draw advantages of the wider team. RESPONSIBILITIES • Generate new business opportunity subscriptions with hotels and industry partners • Manage, retain, and develop client relationships growing data, product use and subscription value • Development of and implementation of strategic account management plans • Negotiate and renew client contracts • Presentations to on-board and educate existing and new clients of STR’s products • Represent STR at client meetings, third party and industry conferences including delivering market data insight presentations at client and industry events • The role is based in Singapore, with regular travel to the South East Asian region required. QUALIFICATIONS • Strong and proven industry knowledge in Accommodation Revenue Management and Investment Sector • An established industry network across South East Asia • Extensive local knowledge of the markets implied above • Local language skills from the region • Degree or equivalent experience WHATS IN IT FOR YOU: Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment, other perks include full private medical cover, 18 days annual leave, CPF, and more. At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs. #STR #LI-SC3 CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing