To oversee and manage sales and marketing staff and
reservation to ensure maximum revenue, promotional coverage and marketing
opportunities are achieved.
The sales and marketing manager should work closely with revenue
management and marketing functions, to develop strategies to maximize revenue
and grow market share.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and promote a team work
environment with effective and clear communication amongst co-workers.
- Ensure best client service is being made
available through communication amongst the team, cross training within
the department and appropriate office coverage.
- Works with managers to ensure
understanding of sales and marketing strategy and effective implementation of this
strategy for the segment.
- Works with management team to create and
implement a sales and marketing plan addressing revenue, customers and the market for
the segment led by the DOSM.
- Set example through professional,
friendly attitude towards clients and co-workers, timely response to
clients and co-workers needs and observance of office standard.
- Ensure hotel meets or exceeds budgeted
goals.
- Follow and track company cross-sell
procedures.
- Utilize company profile database to
determine geographic areas for travel agent calls while maintaining top
and existing travel agent accounts.
- Organize travel agent month and travel
agent appreciation rates for slow months.
- Assists with the development and
implementation of promotions, both internal and external.
- Creating a focus on attracting new
business.
- Attending and contributing to the monthly
sales strategy meeting
- Updating and owning the sales strategy
& sales plan with the General Manager.
- Review and
approves any special corporate negotiated rates by signing the CVGR (Company Volume guaranteed rate) contract.
- Provides positive and aggressive
leadership to ensure maximum revenue potential (e.g., sets example with
personal booking goals).
- Leads on-property sales functions to
build long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement
of hotel sales objectives.
- Recommends monthly room nights target
goals for sales team members.
- Participates in sales calls with members
of sales team to acquire new business and/or close on business.
- Develop and send informative press
releases to targeted lists highlighting all activities and promotions.
- Maintain and expand corporate incentive
program via direct mail, personal visits etc.
- Oversee and ensure the updation of rates,
promotions on hotel website, OTA's (Online travel agents), GDS etc.
without any rate parity.
- Responsible for the training of sales staff.
- Follow and promote hotel standards with
guests, co-workers.
- Evaluates and drives the hotel’s
participation in the various sales channels, Market Sales, Event Booking
Centres, electronic lead channels, etc.
- Monitors all day to day activities of
direct reports.
- Executes and supports the operational
aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract,
customer correspondence).