Revenue Administration

Sales Manager

Interacting with people, making heart connections, figuring out what it takes and stepping it up to win the day; it's what you do, and you love it. You'll have the opportunity to do this and more as Part Time Sales Manager for La Quinta by Wyndham Danbury. As Sales Manager, your responsibilities include:

• Connect with people in a meaningful way, continually innovating to expand the reach with key corporate, business, and travel industry accounts, tapping into community organizations and the media to elevate the hotel's market share awareness and driving further business.
• Understand the competitive landscape and do what it takes to secure business that meets or exceeds revenue expectations and profit goals.
• Solicit, negotiate and book new and repeat clients using multiple channels, such as social media, outside calls, and telemarketing.
• Capture the client's vision and effectively convey the specifications to appropriate departments, rapidly responding to inquiries, concerns, and issues, ensuring an exceptional client experience and seeding future sales.
• Effectively attain assigned sales and revenue goals as well as solicitation call goals.
• Proactively conduct solicitation calls conduct sales tours and entertain clients specific to Leisure SMERF Business Travel (BT) and/or Groups as applicable by property.
• Monitor and evaluate trends within your market segment.
• Approach all encounters with guests and employees in an attentive friendly courteous and service-oriented manner.
• Adheres to Aimbridge Hospitality's established regulations company standards sales standards and sales metrics related.
• Develop a full working knowledge of the operations and policies of the hotel and applicable departments.
• Maintain strong visibility in local community and industry organizations as applicable.
• May assist in implementing and/or participating in special promotions relating to direct sales segments i.e. sales blitzes etc.
• Attend daily/weekly/monthly meetings and any other functions required by management.
• Perform any other duties as requested by the General Manager.

A four-year college degree or equivalent education or experience is required, with one to two years' employment in a related position. Must possess effective verbal and written English communications skills. Advanced knowledge of sales and hospitality principles and practices is expected.