Corporate Sales Executive (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Commercial Hub; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality company in Northampton seeks a Corporate Sales Executive to maximize sales across hotels. The ideal candidate will inspire customer loyalty, manage bookings, and collaborate with various teams to achieve revenue targets. This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave, offering competitive benefits and opportunities for growth within the company.

Benefits

Preferential travel rates

International hotel discounts

Access to shopping and retail discounts

Free access to the Leisure Club

Employee assistance line

Qualifications

• Innate interest in hotel, meetings, and events markets.
• Genuine passion for keeping up-to-date with market trends.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads.

Responsibilities

• Maximising hotel corporate sales revenues.
• Handling corporate booking enquiries and converting them into sales.
• Collaborating with teams to maximise sales and revenue opportunities.

Skills

Sales strategy

Customer relationship management

Market trend analysis

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

How do you fancy working for a company that empowers and trusts you to drive Corporate sales and move forward in your own, creative way? A company that loves and embraces change meaning they truly want to hear those ideas? Do you want to make sure both big and small details are prioritised so that you can deliver an outstanding performance?

Responsibilities

• Maximising hotel corporate sales revenues, to ensure your hotels achieve their budget and key KPIs
• Promoting your hotels brand
• Handling corporate booking enquiries & leads and the rewarding bit of converting them into sales
• Working closely with your Sales Colleagues & Revenue teams to support all revenue generation activities
• Collaborating with your Area General Managers and on-site team to ensure that we are maximising all sales and revenue opportunities across the portfolio and researching new pipeline business across all locations, managing the sales cycle from initial enquiry through to conversion and hand over to the hotel operations team
• Proactively driving enquiry and conversion levels within the corporate segment across online and offline channels

Is this Corporate Sales Executive role right for me?

You'll be one of those “think outside the box” @types – the @type that really wants to find ways to inspire loyalty, through ensuring your hotel is utilising all of our services, facilities and special promotions. How you do this is up to you, but we know through experience that those most successful within our industry have an innate interest in the hotel, meetings and events markets, along with a genuine passion for keeping up-to-date with market and competitor trends. Not to mention, having a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage and prioritise workloads will be essential to the success of these roles.

Benefits

• Do you enjoy travelling? A fun weekend away? We've got you covered with preferential rates.
• Alternatively, if we do not have a hotel in that location, why not take advantage of our International IHG discounts?
• We also have shopping and discount opportunities in retail, restaurants, and events (because we know life isn't all about work).
• Are your family and friends envious of your deals? Why not give them a discount code for hotels throughout the Kew Green Hotels estate
• FREE access to the Leisure Club
• Progression and room for growth, with opportunities in the UK and abroad - we have training, courses, and updates at your fingertips!
• Mental Health and Legal Support with our 24/7, 365 Employee Assistance Line

About us

Who are Kew Green Hotels? Whether we are passing on a sales lead, creating an on-trend specials dish or simply looking after guests and employees, here at Kew Green we focus on the details. We know that each and every member of our team love to pursue outstanding – and we respect our people and the incredible work they do to look after our guests. And in return? Not only do we offer a highly competitive benefits package, but through our internal career development opportunities and external apprenticeship provider, we also support you wholeheartedly in your own personal pursuit of outstanding.

With an ever-growing portfolio and a number of brands across leading hotel chains including IHG Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Hilton, what unites us all is our values.

Irrespective of whether we are finding new ways to take care of our guests or supporting departments we've never worked in before – here at Kew Green Hotels, our obsession over the little details is who we are.

When you join the Kew Green family, you'll be part of a fast-growing company that is going global. If you've got ambition, we can match it with endless opportunities - both in the UK and much further afield.

Please note: This vacancy is being offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave.