Job Description
- Own the reactive sales process for accommodation groups, meetings, events and private functions;
- Act as the primary sales contact for reactive MICE, corporate groups, leisure groups and social events, escalating strategic or high-value opportunities to the Commercial Director;
- Convert inbound demand quickly and commercially, maintaining clear response times, follow-up cadence and next actions for every qualified enquiry;
- Own social event conversion, with clear package options and upsell opportunities designed to improve average booking value;
- Manage tentative business, option dates, contracts, deposits and key sales milestones in accordance with hotel policy;
- Maintain accurate and current opportunity, revenue, activity and lost-business information in Delphi and other relevant systems;
- Work closely with Revenue and Reservations on group rates, availability, displacement considerations and accommodation requirements;
- Work with the Sales Manager on proactive leads that become reactive opportunities and support larger or strategically important opportunities as required;
- Hand confirmed business to the Sales & Event Planning Manager with complete commercial information, agreed inclusions, contracted terms and clear client expectations;
- Support client site inspections, famils, showcases and hotel sales events where required.
Qualifications
We are looking for you – with personality and that certain something …
- Experience in hotel, venue, events, groups or hospitality sales with a strong customer and conversion focus;
- Confident handling a high volume of enquiries while maintaining personalised service and commercial discipline;
- Strong written proposal, negotiation, follow-up and relationship-management skills;
- Understands the difference between group dining, meetings, events and accommodation groups and can route enquiries appropriately;
- Commercially minded with a natural ability to upsell and connect rooms, F&B and experiences;
- Highly organised and comfortable managing multiple option dates, contracts and deadlines;
- Confident working across Sales, Revenue, Reservations, F&B and Operations;
- Experience with Delphi, Opera or comparable hotel/event systems is advantageous.
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