Director of Sales

The Director of Sales at the Hilton Orlando Convention Center, will lead the development and execution of strategic sales and marketing plans and initiatives to maximize profitability for the hotel in order to achieve budget, revenue and market share targets.

Connected to the Orange County Convention Center, this contemporary conference and resort hotel with waterpark features is 2.2 miles to SeaWorld and 5.9 miles to Walt Disney World.

All rooms offer classic decor with custom-designed beds, minifridges, flat-screen TVs and WiFi. Suites add kitchenettes, and executive rooms provide access to the Executive Lounge.

Waterpark amenities include 2 pools, a hot tub, a waterslide and a lazy river. There’s also a spa, fitness center, sports courts and multiple dining options, plus a business center and over 225,0000 sq ft of event space. A daily resort fee applies.

As the Director of Sales, you will be responsible for overseeing commercial strategies for your hotel. Your goal is to improve the performance of the asset by connecting strategy and business processes.

Hilton’s Commercial Services organization is comprised of team members driving our sales, revenue, marketing, catering, and events management, call centers, and analytics functions. These functions are the core of Hilton’s “commercial engine” and are essential to Hilton’s ability to drive profitable growth.

What will I be doing?

The primary responsibilities of this position are to design, develop, and deploy business strategies that are creative, dynamic, and impactful for the Americas and lead the Hotel Sales and Marketing process. Key deliverables for this role are to move the business analytics, processes, including cadence of activities to a “predictive and prescriptive” approach to drive performance. This includes but is not limited to, development and communication of commercial strategies and standards through a structured cadence and analysis of company revenue performance against established goals.

In this role, you will facilitate the delivery of the Americas Commercial Operating Model and should possess strong leadership, communication, and networking skills.

Strategy:

• Produce your hotel’s Annual Multi-Year Commercial Strategy Plan, in partnership with on-property leaders and regional support
• Connect the performance needs for the hotel with the solutions designed by the Hilton enterprise, in each key segment your hotel serves
• Direct accountability for setting the strategy and delivery of your hotels revenues including group rooms, banquets, catering, business transient and leisure transient
• Work with Commercial Leadership to ensure that Business Review Guidelines (current to + 5 years) and Group Pricing & Rate Quotation Strategies are in place to maximize all pricing components of sales and catering opportunities and achieve positive group market share
• Support hotel B2B marketing, digital marketing, social media, public relations and communications activities. Guide the e-Commerce teams to ensure online hotel content is accurate and effective
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