Job Description

Sales Manager
Interacting
with people, making heart connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping
it up to win the day; it's what you do, and you love it. You'll have the
opportunity to do this and more as Part Time Sales Manager for La Quinta by
Wyndham Danbury

As Sales Manager, your responsibilities include:

• Connect with people in a
meaningful way, continually innovating to expand the reach with key
corporate, business, and travel industry accounts, tapping into community
organizations and the media to elevate the hotel's market share awareness
and driving further business.
• Understand the competitive
landscape and do what it takes to secure business that meets or exceeds
revenue expectations and profit goals.
• Solicit, negotiate and book new
and repeat clients using multiple channels, such as social media, outside
calls, and telemarketing.
• Capture the client's vision and
effectively convey the specifications to appropriate departments, rapidly
responding to inquiries, concerns, and issues, ensuring an exceptional
client experience and seeding future sales.
• Effectively attain assigned
sales and revenue goals as well as solicitation call goals.
• Proactively conduct
solicitation calls conduct sales tours and entertain clients specific to
Leisure SMERF Business Travel (BT) and/or Groups as applicable by
property.
• Monitor and evaluate trends
within your market segment.
• Approach all encounters with
guests and employees in an attentive friendly courteous and
service-oriented manner.
• Adheres to Aimbridge
Hospitality's established regulations company standards sales standards
and sales metrics related.
• Develop a full working
knowledge of the operations and policies of the hotel and applicable
departments.
• Maintain strong visibility in
local community and industry organizations as applicable.
• May assist in implementing
and/or participating in special promotions relating to direct sales
segments i.e. sales blitzes etc.
• Attend daily/weekly/monthly
meetings and any other functions required by management.
• Perform any other duties as requested
by the General Manager.
A four-year college degree or
equivalent education or experience is required, with one to two years'
employment in a related position. Must possess effective verbal and written
English communications skills. Advanced knowledge of sales and hospitality
principles and practices is expected.