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IHG Hotels & Resorts

Director of Sales

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Job Description

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.

What we need from you:

  • 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

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Job ID: 145812851