Sales Manager II

Sales And Marketing Position

The position is accountable for proactively soliciting and handling sales opportunities. Ensures business is turned over properly and in a timely fashion for proper service delivery. Conducts day-to-day activities related to sales with a focus on building long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of sales objectives. Achieves personal sales goals.

Building successful relationships that generate sales opportunities:

• Proactively builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings. Activities could include sales calls, entertainment, FAM trips, trade shows, etc.

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

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

• Provides accurate, complete and effective turnover to Event Management.

Engaging in sales activities:

• Researches and develops new leads for property business.

• Participates in sales calls with members of sales team to acquire new business and/or close on business.

• Upsells each business opportunity to maximize revenue potential.

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

Using knowledge of market trends and target customer information to maximize revenue:

• Identifies new business to achieve personal and location revenue goals.

• 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 for the location based on market conditions and location needs.

• Gains understanding of the location's primary target customer and service expectations; serves the customer by understanding their business, business issues and concerns, to offer better business solution.

Additional responsibilities:

• Executes brand's Customer Service Standards and property's Brand Standards.

• Sets a positive example for guest relations.

• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.