Sales Manager

SDA - Sales & Marketing; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Discounted employee friends & family

Food & beverage discounts

Christmas gifts and employee parties

Introduce a friend scheme

Life assurance scheme

Employee assistance programme

Arora star employee recognition

Long service recognition award

Job summary

Sofitel Dublin Airport Hotel, a flagship luxury property managed by the Arora Group in partnership with Accor’s Sofitel, seeks a Sales Manager to lead pre-opening sales activities and a strategic plan focused on room hire, F&B, and target occupancies. The role emphasizes building a strong sales culture and securing key corporate and leisure business.

You will identify new opportunities, manage relationships with travel agents, corporate clients and event planners, and negotiate contracts to

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality sales is a plus.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to develop strategic sales plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales strategies to achieve revenue and occupancy targets.
• Identify, target, and secure new corporate, leisure, MICE, and group business opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with travel agents, tour operators, corporate clients, event planners, and key stakeholders.
• Conduct regular sales calls, client visits, networking events, and presentations.
• Negotiate contracts, rates, and agreements to maximize profitability.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Sales Manager to play a pivotal role in the pre-opening and launch of Sofitel Dublin Airport Hotel—a luxury flagship property managed by the award-winning Arora Group in partnership with Accor’s Sofitel brand.

Directly connected to Terminal 2, this landmark hotel will redefine the guest experience at one of Europe’s busiest international gateways and will feature:

• 412 elegant guestrooms
• Extensive meetings and events facilities
• A spectacular rooftop bar with panoramic views across Dublin and the airport

A bit about what you will do...

The Sales Managerwho will be responsible to assist in creating a strategic sales & marketing plan with a focus on room hire, food & beverage and associated bedroom targets; ensuring there is a 'sales culture' amongst the team by planting monthly targets

• Develop and implement sales strategies to achieve revenue and occupancy targets.
• Identify, target, and secure new corporate, leisure, MICE, and group business opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with travel agents, tour operators, corporate clients, event planners, and key stakeholders.
• Conduct regular sales calls, client visits, networking events, and presentations.
• Negotiate contracts, rates, and agreements to maximize profitability.

More about you...

• Experience in managing a portfolio of local Corporate Companies and hunt for new business.
• Passion for building relationships with extranet providers and animate relationships in order to maximise productivity
• Previous experience as a Sales Manager achieved within a European market.
• Excellent communication, organisational skills and negotiation skills with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word & Excel) are essential
• A clean driving license
• Experience of Delphi is essential and knowledge of reservations systems (Opera/OnQ) would be desirable

What’sin it for you…

Competitive salary

Butthere’smore...

• Free meals on duty.

• Discounted employee friends & family rates at Arora Hotels.

• Food and beverage discounts.

• Christmas gifts and employee parties.

• Introduce a friend scheme.

• Life assurance scheme.

• Employeeassistanceprogramme.

• Arora star employee recognition.

• Long service recognition award.

Grow with us...

We are growing rapidly and with growth comes advancement opportunities. Being part of the Arora group there are exciting opportunities for career progression and development across our properties and brands.

Compensation: Competitive salary