Beach Resort Sales Manager

Description

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Targets accounts, markets, or segments with heavy emphasis on proactive solicitation and account saturation.

• Partners with counterpart to effectively manage the business opportunity.

• Responds to and manages larger and more complex incoming opportunities for the property.

• Identifies, qualifies, and solicits new business to achieve personal and property revenue goals.

• Focuses efforts on corporate, government and association accounts with significant potential sales revenue.

• Develops effective sales plans and actions.

• Works with partners to develop creative ideas and proposals for events.

• Maximizes revenue by upselling packages.

• Understands the overall market - competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them.

• Closes the best opportunities based on market conditions and individual property needs.

• Uses negotiating skills and creative selling abilities to close on business and negotiate contracts.

• Handles complex business with significant revenue potential as well as significant customer expectations.
• Minimum of two years of CI experience required.
• Attends Tradeshows
• Entertains clients.

Building Successful Relationships

• 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 community to strengthen and expand customer base for sales opportunities.

• Provides excellent customer sales service in order to grow share of the account.

• Manages and develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities

• Utilizes intranet for resources, templates, and information.

• Participates in site visits.

• Develops and facilitates execution of contracts as required.

• Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence).

• Executes brand’s Customer Service Standards and property’s Brand Standards through the sales process.

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