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JOB SUMMARY Provides sales support to the Sales organization, as well as individual hotels. Serves a bench function to account for staffing changes resulting from turnover, leaves of absence, or extended vacation leave for property and sales executives. Supports sales for new hotel openings, renovation and repositioning and sales support for priority hotels identified by the regional team. Drives customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience.
Job Responsibility
Provides sales support to the Sales organization, as well as individual hotels
Serves a bench function to account for staffing changes
Drives customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience
Performs all duties of the Senior Sales Executive or Destination Sales Executive based on assignment due to absence/vacancy at the property
Achieves group revenue goals by responding to incoming group opportunities
Understands the overall market and knows how to sell against them
Closes the best opportunities for the property based on market conditions and property needs
Uses negotiating skills and creative selling abilities to close on business and negotiate contracts
Partners with Sales to identify new group/catering business and achieve personal and property revenue goals
Assists with selling, implementation and follow-through of group sales promotions
Attends pre- and post-convention meetings to understand group needs
Coordinates and executes all site inspections/visits on property
Provides coordination support for site inspections executed by on-property sales associates
Partners with account/selling manager to develop creative aspects of site visit
Gathers all important customer data from account/selling manager
Prepares all sales and operational staff for upcoming site inspections
Understands competitor’s strengths and weaknesses
Provides expert knowledge on local destination
Provides sales support for individual properties during pre-opening and renovation timelines
Coordinates with all sales channels to educate selling engines on property attributes and business needs
Verifies channels and websites are updated with accurate detail about the property
Provides other sales support as needed
Under direction of sales leadership, drives sales to identified property
Partners with Business Development and Sales team to pull-through local business
Coordinates with account executives to pull-through business
Understands competitive market and identifies share shift opportunities
Provides temporary support for account executives and senior account executives
Understands segment strategy and customer accounts to be covered
Executes strategy for assigned accounts
Retains, expands and grows account revenue of existing accounts
Maintains current business relationships for new business within accounts
Leverages appropriate corporate and market resources
Partners with Sales Team stakeholders to identify sales strategies
Maintains accurate and up-to-date customer, account and opportunity data
Performs other duties as assigned
Works collaboratively with off-property sales channels
Partners with Event Management and/or Operations
Serves the customer by understanding their needs
Gains understanding of the property’s primary target customer
Drives customer loyalty
Develops a close working relationship with operations
Requirements
High school diploma or GED
4 years experience in the sales and marketing, guest services, front desk, or related professional area
2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major
2 years experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area
Nice to have
University degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management
Lodging sales experience
Account management experience
Multi-brand experience
Marriott sales systems experience (e.g. SFAWeb|CI , MRDW, MarRFP)