Area Director of Sales

Additional Information: This hotel is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, Phoenix American Hospitality. The franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from Marriott International, Inc.  The franchisee solely controls all aspects of the hotel’s employment policies and practices, including hiring, firing, discipline, staffing, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment.  If you accept a position at this hotel, you will be employed by a franchisee and not by Marriott International, Inc.

The Area Director of Sales provides strategic and tactical sales leadership for an assigned portfolio of PAH-managed hotels across Arkansas. This leader executes and directs property-level sales, grows room revenue, strengthens accountability, and partners with hotel and corporate leadership to achieve revenue and market-share goals. The position is accountable for increasing total room revenue, RevPAR, ADR, occupancy, business transient production, group revenue, extended-stay demand, negotiated account penetration, and overall hotel profitability.

• Conduct structured weekly sales calls and regular property visits to review activity, production, pace, conversion, account performance, pipeline health, market conditions, and action-plan execution.
• Analyze STR reports, Kalibri Labs data, booking pace, market share, RevPAR index, ADR index, occupancy index, budgets, forecasts, segmentation trends, and competitive performance to identify opportunities and risks.
• Drive proactive sales activity, including proactive prospecting, account research, client appointments, site visits, sales blitzes, market drives, networking, and targeted follow-up.
• Grow Special Corporate, local negotiated rate, group, extended-stay, government, healthcare, pharmaceutical, sports, SMERF, project, training, relocation, and other qualified negotiated business.
• Identify accounts producing at competing hotels and create strategies to shift profitable room nights and revenue into PAH-managed properties.
• Ensure consistent and accurate use of Delphi, CVENT, brand sales systems, CRM platforms, GDS channels, RFP tools, property management systems, and PAH-required reporting tools.https://careers.marriott.com/area-director-of-sales/job/C6288C36D505F837E6C52ED25DC1F4EE