Meeting and Events Sales Manager

Village Hotels - Cheadle; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A modern hotel and leisure company in Cheadle seeks an M&E Sales Office Manager to inspire and lead a team in maximizing event bookings and revenue. Responsibilities include identifying new business opportunities, designing sales strategies, and ensuring detailed contract management. The ideal candidate will have a strong commercial acumen, attention to detail, and a knack for motivating others, ensuring top-notch service and customer satisfaction. Join us to be part of a dynamic work environment focused on growth and play.

Benefits

Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership

Discount on overnight stays

Flexible working hours

Excellent training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a hotel or event management environment is preferred.
• Ability to inspire and motivate team members.
• Strong understanding of customer needs and service promotion.

Responsibilities

• Inspire and motivate your team to maximize revenue streams.
• Identify new business opportunities and monitor competitors.
• Design and deliver the sales activity plan.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strong commercial acumen

Motivational leadership

Identifying new business

Job description

Birthday to Bar Mitzvah, Wedding of the Year to working lunch, Village Hotel Clubs have the perfect space to celebrate in style or impress colleagues and customers. Our flexible spaces and packages cater for all types of clients and guests. Our M&E Sales Office Managers will not only handle each enquiry with the utmost professionalism, but will have a keen eye for opportunities to grow the business and introduce new customers to the brand. They love attention to detail and will ensure that all the information and administration is handled accurately for our events and groups business.

Work, Grow, Play! Here at Village Hotel Club we are all about embracing personality, individualism and fun. Forget stuffy hotels built around formality, pomp and ceremony. We create lively, modern spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, play and exercise. With hotels and leisure clubs Aberdeen to Bournemouth and more opening soon, we rely on you to deliver service that puts us head and shoulders above the competition.

Benefits

• Complimentary Health and Wellness Membership at your home Club for you and a family member/ friend worth £1,500 a year.
• Discount on all overnight stays at Village Hotels, meaning you can experience our hospitality from £35 with a friend and even grab an excellent breakfast.
• Friends and Family discounted stays from £49 including breakfast
• 50% discount on Food and Drink purchased on or off shift at any Village Hotel Pub & Grill
• 30% discount on and off shift in our Village Hotel Starbucks stores
• Excellent training and development including our Rising Stars and Talent Academy programmes
• A much more exciting way to train across several areas in the hotels, utilising our exciting Mobile Gaming training platform.
• Discounts and cashback offers on many High Street Brands and Supermarkets.
• A range of Well-being and Healthcare benefits and monthly well-being programmes for all employees to support your mental health
• Putting your Mental Wellbeing first with Mental Health first aiders and up to 2 mental health days to utilise annually.
• Financial wellbeing support and salary drawdown via Wagestream
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering support and counselling
• Flexible working hours
• A fun, supportive and inclusive work environment with regular team events
• Excellent Reward and Recognition Incentive schemes
• Anniversary rewards for key milestones of service
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Have your birthday off guaranteed
• Discounted Health Cash plan and Sick pay Insurance.
• A host of BIG People Days to celebrate, reward and recognise our wonderful employees and their local communities.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and pay
• Company Pension scheme
• Life Insurance

*T&C’s apply based on your contract

Key Responsibilities

• Inspire and motivate your team, encouraging them to excel in securing bookings and maximising these key revenue streams
• Be imaginative, identify new business and be aware of local developments and competitors
• Play a key role in designing and delivering the sales activity plan
• A good eye for detail, ensuring contracts and quotes are issued correctly
• Ability to understand guests needs, conduct show arounds and promote all the services we have to offer
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen appropriate to win new business, encourage repeat customers and achieve targets

Come and be part of something new & something special - Work, Grow & Play the Village Way!

Compensation

To be discussed