Role Overview
As the Sales Manager, you will be responsible for driving business growth, strengthening brand awareness, and building strategic relationships to position for a boutique outdoor hospitality destination as a premier experiential travel destination in the region. This role requires a dynamic, self-driven individual who understands the luxury-meets-adventure space and is passionate about creating and promoting meaningful guest experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Revenue Generation: Drive bookings across various segments, including direct guests, experiential travel agencies, and lifestyle groups.
- Identify and develop business opportunities such as wellness retreats, group bookings, brand collaborations, and seasonal packages.
- Sales Strategy & Planning: Create and execute sales strategies tailored to the property's unique offering—adventure, nature, and wellness-focused hospitality.
- Work closely with marketing teams to craft compelling campaigns, activations, and seasonal promotions.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain partnerships with DMCs, tour operators, lifestyle brands, wellness curators, and corporate clients.
- Deliver a high-touch, personalized approach to client engagement that fosters long-term loyalty.
- Sales Performance & Market Insights: Monitor sales performance, reporting on key metrics and identifying opportunities for growth.
- Stay informed on regional travel trends, competitor offerings, and emerging market segments in experiential and eco-conscious travel.
- Collaboration & Experience Integration: Work closely with on-site teams to ensure that all guest touchpoints—from booking to check-out—reflect the property's ethos and service standards.
- Support the development of experience packages that integrate adventure, wellness, and local culture.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in hospitality sales, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Proven success in GCC markets, ideally with time spent based in the region.
- Background in luxury, lifestyle, or experiential hospitality.
- Strong network across corporate clients, travel agencies, tour operators, and government entities.
- Arabic language skills are highly valued.
- Strong sales, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Passion for nature, wellness, and creating authentic guest experiences.
Additional Information
What’s In It for You
- Lots of opportunity to progress and switch it up as part of a global family of brands.
- Great healthcare, competitive salary, and some nice extra perks across the Ennismore family of brands!
- Learning opportunities to broaden your skillset and development that helps you think, make, and thrive at work
- The opportunity to be yourself and collaborate with other bright minds in a relaxed, innovative culture
This is a rare opportunity to be part of a purpose-driven hospitality concept that merges nature, design, and experience.
Join us at Hatta - where nature leads, community thrives, and stories unfold.