Sales Manager - Leisure

St. Regis Hotels & Resorts; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Regis Hotels & Resorts in Riyadh is seeking a Sales & Marketing Manager to proactively solicit and handle sales opportunities, ensuring timely handover for service delivery and driving personal sales goals.

In this role you will lead day-to-day sales activities, build long-term customer relationships, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to maximize revenue and bookings. A strong focus on customer service and market understanding is required.

Qualifications

• 2-year degree plus 3 years of sales/marketing experience, or
• 4-year degree plus 1 year of sales/marketing experience.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings.
• Participates in sales calls with team to acquire new business or close on business.
• Executes and supports operational aspects of booked business, including proposals and contracts.
• Identifies new business to achieve personal and location revenue goals.
• Understands market trends and target customers to maximize revenue.
• Provides excellent customer service and ensures proper turnover to events management.

Skills

Relationship building

Sales collaboration

Education

2-year degree in Business Admin / Marketing / Hotel & Restaurant Management

4-year bachelor’s degree in Business Admin / Marketing / Hotel & Restaurant Management

Job description

Additional Information

Job Number

26133871

Job Category

Sales & Marketing

Location

2941 Makkah Al Mukarramah Road, Al Hada District, Riyadh 12912, Saudi Arabia VIEW ON MAP

Schedule

Full Time

Located Remotely?

N

Position Type

Management

Job Summary

The position is accountable for proactively soliciting and handling sales opportunities. Ensures business is turned over properly and in a timely fashion for proper service delivery. Assists in leading all day-to-day activities related to sales with a focus on building long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of sales objectives. Achieves personal sales goals.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education And Experience

• 2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 3 years experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area.

OR

• 4-year bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 1 year experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Building Successful Relationships that Generate Sales Opportunities

• Works collaboratively with off-property sales channels to ensure sales efforts are coordinated, complementary and not duplicative.
• Builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings. Activities include sales calls, entertainment, FAM trips, trade shows, etc.
• Develops relationships within community to strengthen and expand customer base for sales opportunities.
• Manages and develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides accurate, complete and effective turnover to Event Management.

Managing Sales Activities

• Participates in sales calls with members of sales team to acquire new business and/or close on business.
• Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence).

Using Knowledge of Market Trends and Target Customer Information to Maximize Revenue

• Identifies new business to achieve personal and location revenue goals.
• Understands the overall market - competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them.
• Closes the best opportunities for the location based on market conditions and location needs.
• Gains understanding of the location’s primary target customer and service expectations; serves the customer by understanding their business, business issues and concerns, to offer better business solution.

Providing Exceptional Customer Service

• Supports the company’s service and relationship strategy, driving customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience.
• Services our customers in order to grow share of the account.
• Executes and supports the company’s customer service standards.
• Provides excellent customer service consistent with the daily service basics of the company.
• Sets a positive example for guest relations.
• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.

At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.

Combining timeless glamour with a vanguard spirit, St. Regis Hotels & Resorts is committed to delivering exquisite experiences at more than 50 luxury hotels and resorts in the best addresses around the world. Beginning with the debut of The St. Regis hotel in New York by John Jacob Astor IV at the dawn of the twentieth century, the brand has remained committed to an uncompromising level of bespoke and anticipatory service for all of its guests, delivered flawlessly by a team of gracious hosts that combine classic sophistication and modern sensibility, as well as our signature Butler Service. We invite you to explore careers at St. Regis. In joining St. Regis, you join a portfolio of brands with Marriott International. Be where you can do your best work, begin your purpose, belong to an amazing global team, and become the best version of you.