Director of Sales - Hampton Inn LAX
13 days ago
Inglewood
Job Description 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 • Prospect, solicit, negotiate, close and contract Corporate and Group business to earn loyalty from key clients and travelers to drive base revenue., • 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, • Proactively prospect business and revenue opportunities via phone and email solicitation, as well as setting up appointments and site visits, • Conduct weekly and monthly outside sales calls to target local business account opportunities, • Create and send out proposals and contracts, • Log all sales activity into Delphi and meet and exceed weekly sales activity quota, • Relationship build with city contacts and organizations and attend monthly and quarterly events pertinent to your hotel, • Build and maintain all existing client relationships, • Work with Global and National brand representatives to prospect, saturate and build hotel awareness, • Respond to all RFP solicitations, RFP renegotiations and submit Compelling Business cases, • Conduct annual RFP re-submissions and renew annual contracts, • Proactively mentor and train front desk and respective hotel team members on sales related job duties, • 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 provide Corporate and Group updates, • Adhere to operational sales such as maintenance of group blocks, overview of reservation coding, as well as working with brands to set up rate codes and uploads of GDS, • 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., • Brand experience (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, etc.), • Sales system experience (Delphi, Salespro/Salesforce, Amadeus, STS, etc.), • STAR understanding and can speak to weekly and monthly trends of hotel, • Reliable transportation, • 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