Group sales manager Jobs in Houston, TX

Job Summary

As the local, on property sales contact for customers, the Sales Manager is responsible for proactively soliciting and handling all revenue-related opportunities in a sale. Actively upsells each business opportunity to maximize all revenue opportunities. Achieves personal and team related revenue goals for hotel. Ensures business is turned over properly and in timely fashion for proper service delivery.

Essential Job Functions

This description is a summary of primary responsibilities and qualifications. The job description is not intended to include all duties or qualifications that may be required now or in the future. The Hotel operates 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, so operational demands require variations in shift days, starting times, and hours worked in a week.

Business Results

• Builds the department top line revenue by adhering to sales strategy guidelines set forth by the Director of Sales & Marketing. Identifies revenue opportunities for the hotels based on the event profile.
• Meets and exceeds individual revenue goals. Effectively manages customer budgets to maximize revenue and meet customer needs and identify opportunities to up-sell products and services throughout the sales process.
• Exceeds company minimum standards with the sales process and acts as a mentor for others within this area.
• Understands the overall market in which they sell - competitors strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply, and demand, etc.
• Builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to include sales calls, entertainment, FAM trips, etc.
• Conducts customer site inspections
• Excels at proactive selling. Targets key accounts, markets, or segments with heavy emphasis on proactive solicitation and account saturation. Proactively identifies, qualifies, and solicits new business to achieve personal and hotel revenue goals. Focuses on accounts with larger potential sales revenue.
• Responds to incoming inquiries within their market segment within 4 hours.
• Closes the best opportunities for the hotel based on market conditions and hotels needs.
• Accurately forecasts group sleeping rooms and revenue for his / her groups prior to the turnover and continues to be a partner for this process after the turnover.
• Creates sales contracts as required.
• Comprehends budgets as needed to assist in the financial management of department. Understands the impact of department's role in the overall financial goals and objectives of the hotels and manages to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.

Guest Satisfaction

Leadership

applies broad business knowledge and balances both a short- and long-term perspective to generate strategies while leading the organization to achieve them.

Building Relationships

eliminates insular thinking by fostering a positive climate for work relationships and teams committed to achieving organizational goals and initiatives.

Managing Work Execution

proactively ensures that others have the accountability, authority, and resources necessary to both manage work execution and drive for results.

Organizational Learner

Actively pursues learning and self-development to enhance personal, professional and business growth; shares learning; demonstrates depth of knowledge in technical or specialized area

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Experience

Skills and Knowledge

Physical Demands

Frequent walking, standing, sitting, hearing, talking, smiling. Lifting, pushing, and pulling of objects weighing up to ten pounds.

Benefits

k)Dental insuranceDisability insuranceEmployee assistance programFlexible spending accountHealth insuranceLife insurancePaid time offVision insuranceRoom DiscountsEmployee Food and Beverage Discounts