Sales and marketing Manager at Accor Hotel

Job Description

• As Manager of Sales & Marketing, your key responsibilities are to architect and steer hotel sales and marketing strategies into a new era of growth and innovation. This senior role demands a blend of visionary leadership, strategic marketing genius, and sales expertise, poised to elevate our brand and drive revenue. The ideal candidate will possess a track record of crafting winning strategies, inspiring teams, and forging solid relationships with customers and partners alike.

What You Will Be Doing

• You will be responsible for overseeing commercial strategies for the hotel. Your goal is managing the asset by connecting strategy and business processes. Business processes should be designed to impact all revenue streams, including focus on Rooms, Catering, Food & Beverage and Marketing.
• Lead the development and implementation of both short-term and long-term strategies in all sales, events, and marketing channels to achieve hotel’s revenue goals and increase target market share performance.
• Work with Commercial Leadership to ensure that pre-opening and Group Pricing & Rate Quotation Strategies are in place in order to maximize all pricing components of sales and catering opportunities and achieve positive market share.
• Work in conjunction with Brand e-Commerce teams to build & establish hotel B2B marketing, digital marketing, social media, public relations and communications channels. Guide these teams to ensure online hotel content is accurate and effective.
• Develop and execute departmental expense budget and forecasts.
• Must be able to train and monitor the group, transient and events contractual, legal and risk agreement practices, establish booking guidelines and pricing expectations, full knowledge of sales and events booking platforms and uphold all company policies and procedures associated with managing these systems.
• Lead, engage, and develop team members, including ongoing performance development and Career Development Plans.
• High level of engagement with customers from all sales segments.

Qualifications

To fulfil this role successfully, you should demonstrate the following minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of five (5) Years of Hotel Sales, Catering or Marketing Experience.
• Management Experience (type): Manager
• Four-year college degree preferred.
• Minimum Years of Leadership Experience in a Full-Service Hotel with minimum of 100 rooms.
• Highly professional presentations and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Proficiency with standard Microsoft Office.
• Ability to perform critical analysis.