Hotel - Group Sales Manager - Hampton Inn & Home2 Suites Big Bear
Are You The One?
We are currently looking for a highly motivated, determined, well-spoken, and experienced hotel Director of Sales with a minimum of 3 years of hotel industry experience who understands the meaning of cultivating relationships and maximizing base revenue.
Key Responsibilities:
- This sales role is driven by 80% outside sales prospecting efforts in Southern California to drive hotel awareness (company vehicle provided).
- Responsible for driving new transient, group and corporate awareness.
- Develop a weekly, monthly, and quarterly focus action plan with corporate sales by client and business type by region and submarket.
- Work with and build rapport with key community and company contacts to generate travel through influence.
- Utilize seasonal and active promotions and packages to maximize hotel occupancy.
- Relationship build with city and state contacts and travel organizations and attend monthly and quarterly events pertinent to hotel and market.
- Attend city and industry wide events and tradeshows to raise hotel awareness.
- Develop collateral and literature to aid in outside marketing efforts.
- Conduct routine and aggressive prospect follow up via phone and email efforts.
- Work with Corporate Sales, Corporate Revenue and General Manager of hotel to meet and exceed monthly and annual budget targets for Occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR
- Work with internal and 3rd party Marketing agencies on all marketing initiatives for hotel
- Log all sales activity into Delphi and meet and exceed weekly sales activity quota
- Build and maintain all existing client relationships.
- Work with Global and National brand representatives to prospect, saturate and build hotel awareness.
- Utilize PMS and Brand reporting to drive sales prospecting and saturation efforts.
- Attend weekly Sales Accountability calls with Corporate Sales
- Attend weekly hotel Revenue calls (internal and external) to understand revenue health of hotel and provide insight as needed on sales initiatives.
- Follow all Greens Sales policy and procedure as outlined within the Greens Knowledgebase.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills to effectively negotiate, persuade, influence, and sell.
- B2B and exceptional outside sales experience
- Brand experience (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, etc.)
- Sales system experience (Delphi, Salespro/Salesforce, Amadeus, STS, etc.)
- Ability to drive and travel 80% of time
- Ability to travel locally to client appointments and events
- Ability to travel to Irvine corporate office as needed as well as to quarterly Greens Sales meetings
- Ability to effectively communicate and train team on sales policy and procedure
- Excellent time management skills
Greens is an EEO employer - M/F/Vets/Disabled