Sales Manager Hospitality & B2B (32-40 hours)

Douxe; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Brand prestige

Room for initiative

Job summary

DOUXE is seeking a proactive Sales Manager to drive luxury hospitality partnerships with 4- and 5-star hotels, resorts, and design-led hospitality brands. You will engage at executive levels, identify new opportunities, and translate brand storytelling into lasting B2B partnerships.

You thrive in a fast-growing, compact organisation, travel within the Netherlands and beyond, and have a strong network in the hotel world. Dutch and English fluency are essential.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in luxury hospitality, 4- or 5-star hotels, interior design or high-end lifestyle brands.
• Proven ability to recognise, develop and convert commercial opportunities.
• Has a relevant and up-to-date network within the (inter)national hotel world.
• Entrepreneurial, proactive and comfortable with responsibility and freedom.
• Strong at building relationships, commercially aware and stylishly decisive.
• Excellent command of Dutch and English (German is a plus).
• Willing to travel within the Netherlands and beyond.
• Feels at home in a compact organisation with an entrepreneurial, growing dynamic.

Responsibilities

• Actively identifying, creating and following up new commercial opportunities within hospitality, dealers & interior designers.
• Building, maintaining and expanding lasting relationships within the (inter)national 4- and 5-star hotel industry.
• Guiding commercial processes from first introduction to long-term collaboration.
• Contributing to the further expansion of DOUXE in existing and new international markets.
• Representing DOUXE at relevant (international) networking events, trade fairs and hospitality gatherings.
• Acting as brand ambassador and substantive sparring partner for owners, general managers and decision makers.
• Translating brand identity, product quality and storytelling into strong B2B partnerships.
• Safeguarding brand image, quality and consistency in all partnerships.

Skills

Luxury hospitality

Sales management

Relationship building

Business development

Networking

Job description

DOUXE Hotel Luxury is the world’s first hotel lifestyle brand. Originating in the Netherlands, with an international signature.

We design and produce refined bed, bath and spa collections for the most beautiful 4- and 5-star hotels worldwide, as well as for consumers who wish to bring the ultimate hotel feeling home. DOUXE has since become an established name in the world of high-end hotel products, in hospitality as well as in private interiors.

All products are made with respect for people, animals and sustainability in small-scale European ateliers with which we work closely and personally. Conscious luxury and attention to detail are at the heart of everything we do.

In 2020 DOUXE opened its first Hotel Lifestyle Concept Store in The Hague. An iconic setting where the five-star hotel feeling becomes tangible: from Egyptian cotton bed linen to complete hotel bed concepts, as used by, among others, Hotel Pulitzer Amsterdam and Hotel Okura.

The role

For the further international growth of DOUXE within luxury hospitality and high-end B2B we are looking for a Sales Manager .

In this role you are responsible for proactively initiating, deepening and capitalising on relationships within the world of 4* and 5* hotels, resorts and hospitality groups. You move effortlessly at executive level and know when it is time to listen, to connect and when the moment has come to take the initiative.

You are strong at building relationships and commercially sharp. You see opportunities, sense potential and know how to turn them, with style, conviction and an eye for results, into lasting partnerships; always in keeping with the world and pace of DOUXE.

What will you do

Actively identifying, creating and following up new commercial opportunities within hospitality, dealers & interior designers

Building, maintaining and expanding lasting relationships within the (inter)national 4- and 5-star hotel industry

Guiding commercial processes from first introduction to long-term collaboration

Contributing to the further expansion of DOUXE in existing and new international markets

Representing DOUXE at relevant (international) networking events, trade fairs and hospitality gatherings

Acting as brand ambassador and substantive sparring partner for owners, general managers and decision makers

Translating brand identity, product quality and storytelling into strong B2B partnerships

Safeguarding brand image, quality and consistency in all partnerships

Your profile

We are not looking for a traditional salesperson, but a proactive, commercial and representative sales go-getter with a feel for luxury and results.

Demonstrable experience in luxury hospitality, 4- or 5-star hotels, interior design or high-end lifestyle brands

Proven ability to recognise, develop and convert commercial opportunities

Has a relevant and up-to-date network within the (inter)national hotel world

Entrepreneurial, proactive and comfortable with responsibility and freedom

Strong at building relationships, commercially aware and stylishly decisive

Excellent command of Dutch and English (German is a plus)

Willing to travel within the Netherlands and beyond

Feels at home in a compact organisation with an entrepreneurial, growing dynamic

What we offer

Working for a distinctive luxury brand

A suitable salary, supplemented by a bonus scheme based on shared growth and results

Plenty of room for your own initiative, entrepreneurship and impact

An inspiring working environment with short lines of communication and high quality standards

Good secondary employment benefits