Sales Manager

Aparium Hotel Group; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Free parking

Free shift meal

Dining discount 50%

Discounted room rates

Medical premium coverage

Job summary

Aparium Hotel Group is seeking a Sales Manager to lead group sales for a boutique product, developing strategies to win business and respond to market needs. This role requires a hunter mindset and the ability to work without centralized reservations, aligning with our translocal hospitality ethos.

You will drive revenue by leveraging market intelligence, building relationships with clients, and coordinating with catering and other stakeholders, while maintaining detailed Delphi.fdc records and

Qualifications

• Minimum two years in a sales role in upscale hospitality.
• Experience in boutique/lifestyle hotels preferred.
• Ability to read and act on market intelligence reports.
• Familiarity with Delphi.fdc sales and catering CMS.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead group sales efforts for a new product and respond to market needs.
• Collaborate with departments to book business and maximize revenue.
• Analyze booking guidelines and space allocation to optimize strategy.
• Plan sales activities, promotions, and client events that reflect the city's heritage and character.
• Negotiate with clients to meet needs and achieve targets.
• Maintain records in Delphi.fdc for all group and transient accounts.

Skills

Sales experience

Boutique hotel exp

Market intelligence

STR insights

Knowland Group

Agency 360

Tools

Delphi.fdc CMS

Job description

Reports To:Director of Sales, position is exempt

WHAT YOU WILL GET

Work with an amazing team who is passionate about hospitality, celebrating diversity and embracing individuality!

• Paid time off including vacation, sick and a floating holiday to use when you choose
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community
• Free parking in Ybor!!!
• Free shift-meal prepared by our in-house culinary experts
• Up to 50% off food when you dine at the restaurant as a guest
• Greatly discounted room rates for your out-of-town guests
• Medical benefit premiums begin at a bi-weekly cost of $66

Interested? Please read on...

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Minimum of two (2) years within a Sales role within upscale, lifestyle or luxury hospitality companies
• Past experience of working within a boutique/lifestyle hotel company preferred
• Comfortable working without a big-box hotel company central reservation system
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule in order to meet client needs, which may include weekends or evenings
• Familiarity and ability to read, understand and develop strategy through market intelligence reports to include but not limited to: STR, Knowland Group and Agency 360
• Understanding of Delphi.fdc sales and catering CMS
• Professional proficiency of the English language in reading, writing and verbal communication

THE ROLE

Hotel Haya is searching for a Sales manager who has the heart and tenacity to hunt and discover business for a brand-new product. This role is not for the faint of heart, so if prospecting business and taking it to the streets is not your preference this would not be a role for you. Although, if you are known to have the grit that is associated with an entrepreneurial spirit, then we invite you to your next career opportunity! This position will help lead the Group Sales efforts and be quick to identify and respond to market needs to fill the gaps and set the pace for future bookings. Hotel Haya will offer upscale experiences, with tailor-made services, and a premier restaurant and social scene.

WHO YOU ARE

You are humble and understand the need to work side by side with others; and you take feedback to make things better seriously. It is quite natural for you to walk into a hotel and see the potential of the environment and how it could work for a variety of people, groups, events, or meetings. The first thing you prefer to discover is the event space, thinking “how big is the ballroom and how many people does it hold?” or “I wonder what the rooms are like and how many suites do they have?”. And for giggles, you are tempted to ask the front desk for a sales contact so you can take a fam tour.

WHO YOU ARE

You are humble and understand the need to work side by side with others; and you take feedback to make things better seriously. It is quite natural for you to walk into a hotel and see the potential of the environment and how it could work for a variety of people, groups, events, or meetings. The first thing you prefer to discover is the event space, thinking “how big is the ballroom and how many people does it hold?” or “I wonder what the rooms are like and how many suites do they have?”. And for giggles, you are tempted to ask the front desk for a sales contact so you can take a fam tour. Your career experience has been dynamic and is filled with numerous success stories of how you captured indecisive groups. You are adventurous in discovering the needs of your city and known to walk the area to connect and drive business to fill those seasonal gaps, all without a central reservations system as your individual effort has been greater than a central reservation system could keep up with. For you to feel comfortable within our portfolio you will have familiarity with secondary markets and recognize that hospitality differs from city to city and even from neighborhood to neighborhood. You are comfortable with casual sophistication and realize the concept of luxury has evolved to be approachable and not cookie-cutter.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Reinforce the company's Art + Science ideologies to ensure the experiences of translocal hospitality, intuitive service, and collaboration are implemented and modeled by yourself and every leader of the hotel
• Uphold and role model the company’s principles of People, Place and Character; and ensure your team and peers are also modeling the way of our values that drive collaboration, intuition and translocal hospitality
• Analyze business to ensure booking guidelines and function space to guest room ratio is in the best of interest for the hotel; while communicating effectively with catering and other stakeholders to ensure we exceed clients’ needs and expectations are satisfied, or better yet, exceeded
• Fulfill the hotel's translocal hospitality operating principle by planning or supporting sales activities, promotions and client events that bring to life heritage and character of the city, the uniqueness of the hotel, and celebration of local merchants
• Engage in fair and transparent client negotiations to achieve maximum revenue and profit potential, and meeting client's needs
• Demonstrate strong on-going organizational skills in maintaining and documenting all pertinent information specific to group and transient accounts ensuring all is documented in Delphi.fdc.
• Respond expediently to client requests and needs. Be proud of your ability to adhere to trace dates to ensure we are not delayed in meeting client needs
• Collaborate and problem solve with other departments as needed to book business into the hotel e.g., salvaging of accounts threatening cancellation, groups that have outgrown confirmed space; andwhen needed enlist senior management to interact with tentative or prospective clients in to close the sale
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of the hotel' and competitor’s facilities, services, amenities, and meeting space so that you can skillfully match the stated or unstated needs of a client.
• Take ownership of assigned sales territory and respond to specific market needs by initiating recommendations to the Director of Sales for updates to pricing, availability, or needed services and amenities
• Collaborate with team to discuss, innovate, and support key service and product differentiation to attract groups to the hotel
• Unselfishly perform tasks and projects that support client schedules and sales revenue achievement that help the sales team meet telephone volume, respond to walk-in site inspections, and meet evening and weekend appointment
• Willing to take on reasonable requests from Director of Sales or other Executive Committee members
• Build and maintain a trusting and transparent relationship with all stakeholders, specifically taking the time to develop rapport and respect with the individuals of your peer group.
• Understand who the hotel is and what we aspire to be by following established practices and procedures; and project the appropriate brand voice and image of each hotel to achieve objectives, public recognition, and acceptance
• Evaluates, solicits, sells and confirms business in assigned market area to meet overall budgeted sales and profitability, control dates, availability, and rates on guest rooms and function space
• Aparium Hotel Group does not discriminate based on disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws. The hotel is a smoke-free, drug-free facility, and equal opportunity employer.

HOW YOU WILL LEAD

• Exemplify leading by example by working directly with each member of your team and be willing to coach and counsel with gentle correction and critical but constructive feedback
• Highly analytical in thought and recommendations; although will never act like the smartest person in the room; and continually seek out the facts; can express a point of view without it be driven by an ego
• Engages others in general conversation tactics to build rapport quickly; and can lead and adapt communication and presentation tactics to engage audience; displays adaptable interpersonal skills for a wide range of audiences and stakeholders
• Approaches fact finding and discovery missions in a collaborative effort; values input and experiences of others that creates additional insight to uncover deeper issues that need to be addressed or removed as a barrier to implementation
• Values the importance of making decisions with integrity, maintaining confidentiality across internal work groups and knows how to use discretion when appropriate; understands the difference between transparency and confidentiality.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Aparium Hospitality Services celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment, and sense of belonging for all employees. We do not discriminate and believe every individual should be proud of who they are, where they come from and take pride in who we serve.