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WeDare to Connect with guests and each other in more personal and thoughtful ways, so we can deliver thoughtful, personal, caring gestures that are uniquelyCrowne Plaza JFK Airport.How will you Dare to Connect?
- Being proactive and positive- Reach out and let your personality shine.
- Adapting to the moment- Reading our guests' moods while adapting our pace, tone and the actions we take.
- Understanding our guests' needs and work with them to make sure we prioritize the right things and enable things and enable them to do what's important.
You are a Sales Manager that is fully competent individual who has experience in the sales process and function of a hotel. This role will report to the Director of Sales & Marketing. Responsibilities include: selling guest rooms, meeting space and other Crowne Plaza services to customer groups; managing accounts; conducting site inspections; soliciting and generating business. Duties also include preparing and presenting effective proposals, as well as maintaining well organized documentation and reports.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
1. Move throughout property to conduct site inspections. Maximize revenue by
selling all facets of the hotel, both orally and in written form to previous,
current and potential clients.
2. Interview, hire, train, recommend performance evaluations, resolve
problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or
termination when appropriate.
3. Handle account details so that all pertinent aspects of solicitation and closing
are complete and documented. Coordinate various departments'
participation in servicing accounts.
4. Develop and conduct persuasive verbal sales presentations to prospective
clients.
5. Travel locally to conduct outside calls, promote the hotel and review
competition.
6. Prepare information for, meet with and entertain clients as deemed
appropriate by potential business from that account.
7. Represent hotel at trade shows. Set up exhibits involving bending, stooping,
lifting and reaching overhead.
8. Communicate both verbally and in writing to provide clear direction to staff.
Qualifications
Prior Hotel Sales experience preferred
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
