Sales Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Hotel Sales Leader to join the team at the Delta Hotels By Marriott Manchester Airport.  

The Role:

As Hotel Sales Leader, you will play a key role in maintaining and building strong relationships with our key clients, be accountable for proactively soliciting and managing special corporate accounts, group and catering-related opportunities along with total account management of the existing account portfolio. Your focus is to build long term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of hotel sales budgets to promote brand loyalty and increase market share.

You will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• Builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings. Activities include sales calls, entertainment, FAM trips, trade shows, etc.
• Develops relationships within the community to strengthen and expand customer base for sales opportunities.
• Manages and develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides accurate, complete and effective turnover to Event Management.
• Identifies new business to achieve personal and location revenue goals.
• Understands the overall market – competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them.
• Ensures that the Senior Event Manager and their team are working effectively and efficiently to deliver and exceptional customer experience
• Assist other departments wherever necessary and maintain good working relationships within the whole hotel
• Comply with hotel security, fire regulations and all health and safety legislation

Our Ideal Candidate:

You will have a proven track record in a similar role within a hotel environment. Experience in coaching and developing team members, driving sales and delivering financial results.  You will have a warm people orientated demeanour, a gift for paying attention to the smallest details and a positive outlook and outgoing personality.

Perks you deserve:

We’ll support you in and out of the workplace by offering:

• Complimentary Leisure Club Membership because your wellbeing is important
• Discounted Golf Rates
• Tasty and Varied Meals in our Associate Dining Facility
• Complimentary dry-cleaning service
• Enrolment in Perks at Work – Access to unlimited deals from retailers to restaurants, cinema’s and more
• Discounted Hotel Accommodation Worldwide for you and your Friends & Family
• 20% F&B Discount, 30% Retail Discount & 20% Spa Discount in Marriott Hotels Worldwide
• 23 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays increasing with service
• Annual Performance Related Pay Review
• Cycle to work scheme
• https://careers.marriott.com/sales-manager/job/43FAC6784B5BA0B8D18BA8956D9B8E1B