Director Sales (H04)

IHG • Naperville, IL • 2h ago

Role Purpose

As Sales Director you'll develop and set revenue sales and marketing strategies for the hotel to ensure plans are implemented, results are monitored and sales goals are achieved. Regularly sell hotel rooms, meeting rooms, and food and beverage through direct client contacts.

Key Accountabilities

People

Manage?everyday?activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers.???

Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues?-?recognise?good performance.?

Train colleagues to make sure they deliver with compliance and to the standards we expect?and have the tools they need to work efficiently.?

Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed.??

Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive - connect departments to create sense of one team.??

Financial

Hit all?personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability.?

Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability. Participate in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, the hotel marketing plan and business plan, and financial plans.

Help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans?including?the hotel marketing plan.??

Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food?and beverage and banquet sales.?

Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan.?

Guest Experience

Help guests - you'll be happy to help if someone needs?assistance?with a request or?complaint.??

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.?

Responsible Business

Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally.?

Identify?improvements to?marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with?other departments.?

Ad-hoc duties - unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done.

Accountability

This is the top sales and marketing job in a full or limited service hotel and may include meeting space and/or catering facilities. May manage professional level and administrative sales team members.

Key Skills & Experiences

Bachelor's degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in?marketing or related field.

Two to four years of experience in a hospitality or hotel sales and marketing setting with direct supervisory experience over a sales team, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Must speak local language.?

Other languages preferred.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.

Important information :

The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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IHG does not accept applications, inquiries, or unsolicited CVs/resumes from staffing or recruiting agencies. Please click here for our agency policy.

If you are a resident of or applying to a job opening in the State of Washington, please click here to read about applicable benefits.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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