AREA SALES MANAGER

Overview

Global Talent 2020's award winning boutique Hotelier client, in central Edinburgh, is looking for a full time, on property Area Sales & Manager professional to join their growing, established group as a dedicated sales business developer for Edinburgh and the Scottish region.

The Role

Global Talent 2020's luxury client is looking for a creative, self sufficient individual, a proven Sales Manager with a minimum of 4 years in similar Hotel sales roles, and a strong awareness of the local and wider UK markets. The ideal candidate has a track record of achieving sales growth, developing corporate and leisure event bookings, and balancing corporate and leisure clients while maintaining existing relationships.

The Area Sales Manager will work primarily independently with the Sales BDM and report directly to the Sales Director for the UK. The role also involves liaison with other HODs, collaboration with GMs of venues in the business, and coordination with Marketing for targeted social, media and PR engagements.

Responsibilities

• Managing and negotiating client relationships with corporates and leisure sectors.
• Developing new business sales opportunities and retaining existing client relationships.
• Driving growth with a track record of like for like sales success in a hotel focused business.
• Creating weekly and monthly MI reports to analyse insights and analytics.
• Operational management understanding of service delivery with other HODs.
• IT literate and a clear communicator.
• Experience in marketing, PR, social media and press.

The Person

Global Talent 2020's client seeks a trustworthy Area Sales & Manager who is self motivated, adaptable, flexible, creative, and passionately driven. The candidate should be respectful of the brand, outgoing, engaging, tenacious, detail oriented, with excellent needs assessment and negotiation skills, and open to collaboration and honest feedback.

Benefits

An excellent base salary and bonus scheme plus great benefits, with Monday to Friday office hours, 40 hours a week, and some flexibility for evenings and weekends for events or clients.

Package

Salary £45k to £50k plus bonus and excellent benefits DOE.