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Create Your Experience of a Lifetime!
Come work and play in the mountains! Whether it’s your first-time seeing snow or you were born on the slopes, joining our team means discovering (or re-discovering!) a passion for the outdoors while building lifelong connections with teammates and guests from around the world.
With 40+ resorts across 3 continents, you can join our team for a season or stay to build a career. From day one, you'll receive some of the highest compensation rates in the industry, free Epic pass(es) along with free ski and snowboard lessons, 40% retail discounts, the chance to grow through Epic Service - our leading training and development experience, and wellness benefits to fuel your success.
Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date, or until the position is filled (whichever is first).
Job Benefits
- Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons
- MORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Excellent training and professional development
- Referral Program
Full Time roles are eligible for the above, plus:
- Health Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)
- Free ski passes for dependents
- Critical Illness and Accident plans
Job Specifications
- Outlet: Vail
- Shift & Schedule Availability: Year Round / Full Time
- The budgeted range starts at [[$70,000 -$80,000 + Sales Incentive ]]. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.
Job Summary:
The Leisure Sales Manager is responsible for the development of strategic plans to positively impact the leisure travel markets.
Job Responsibilities:
- Direct the identification, sales efforts, and relationships with individual travel producers including travel management accounts, retail travel agents, consortiums, and wholesalers
- Assist in the integration of individual property efforts into the overall strategy
- Direct the efforts to garner and organize relevant competitive information.
- Assist in the creation and analysis of financials including budgets, forecasting, rates, and pricing guidelines.
- Run appropriate reports.
- Establish Leisure Travel Marketing Action Plans.
- Establish wholesale, retail, and corporate travel (where appropriate) target lists. Attainment of annual room night and revenue goal for the leisure.
- Responsible for securing membership into strategic Consortium accounts.
- Initiate contact with perspective Leisure travel accounts.
- Coordinate special promotional events for key leisure travel customers and their clients, i.e. General Manager’s receptions, customer appreciation parties and incentives, etc. Prepare bi-annual evaluation of individual companies in order to review the results in unison to ensure leisure travel guidelines are being met.
- Make qualified sales trips and solicit new clients on behalf of The Hythe.
- Represent property at appropriate travel industry tradeshows, conferences, and meetings.
- Monitor email campaigns and mailings to leisure travel customers with updates of programs and events.
- Review account production and travel pattern to determine the appropriate market segment for negotiation.
- Ensure that travel industry policies and wholesalers are known and adhered to by all hotel and office staff.
- Interact with Public Relations to ensure everyone is updated on new programs, packages and travel industry events that could make for positive public relations coverage in the trade or local media.
- Maintain active liaison with competitors regionally and nationally through personal contacts and professional associations.
- Other duties as assigned
Job Qualifications:
- College Degree preferred, high school or equivalent education required
- Minimum of four (4) years of sales experience in a luxury hotel or resort environment
- Must Possess Computer Skills, including but not limited to Microsoft Office
- Requires strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to communicate customer needs and resolve complaints independently
- Ability to establish and master goals
- Ability to identify and develop accounts
- Math skills, as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required
The expected pay range is $70,000- $80,000 + Sales Incentive. This is the pay range we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.
Vail Resorts is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID 499812
Reference Date: 01/22/2024
Job Code Function: Sales
