Director of Sales
IHGJob Description
About the Role
As the Director of Sales at IHG, you will lead the top sales and marketing function for our hotel in Kuwait City. This is the top sales and marketing job in a full or limited service hotel and may include managing meeting space and/or catering facilities. You will manage professional level and administrative sales team members while driving revenue growth and brand reputation.
People Management
- Manage everyday activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
- Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback
- Create performance and development goals for colleagues and recognize good performance
- Train colleagues to make sure they deliver with compliance and to the standards we expect
- Recommend or initiate any HR-related actions where needed
- Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive and connect departments to create a sense of one team
Financial
- Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximize profitability
- Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals
- Participate in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, hotel marketing plan, business plan, and financial plans
- Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, and grow F&B and banquet sales
- Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyze current and potential market trends
- Coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share
Guest Experience
- Help guests with any requests or complaints
- Provide guests with information about loyalty programs, area attractions, restaurants, and facilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and outside contacts to produce group and convention business
- Schedule conventions and business group activities at the hotel and coordinate with other departments
Responsible Business
- Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally
- Identify improvements to marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance
- Support ad-hoc duties when teams need to pull together to get a task done
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