Title: Executive Meeting Sales Manager
Description: Supports Sales & Catering with handling entire sales process of initial inquiry, to contract, details and coordination of corporate/association, meetings, and conferences.
- Solicit, negotiate, book new and repeat business through various efforts to maximize/exceed group goals.
- Prepare proposals/quotations of meeting/catering events.
- Ensure that all proposals/quotations are in accordance with Hilton standards provided by the Sales director.
- Confer with customers to understand their meeting/accommodations needs to provide appropriate solutions/suggestions.
- Follow up with customers in order to confirm meeting/event agreements.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by responding to concerns and providing suggestions efficiently.
- Coordinate the efforts of the catering/banquet/all hotel staff in order to ensure proper event management.
- Make sure that accommodations, food, beverages, and seating arrangements properly managed.
- Generate contracts/invoices, custom menus and complete Banquet Event Orders with administrative assistant.
- Work with kitchen staff to plan menus in accordance with the customers’ directions.
- Suggest alternative menu items in order to provide customers with variety.
- Manage and communicate operational logistics including rooming list, reservation changes and billing.
- Analyze appropriate market competition data and information about new trends/marketing.
- Reports to Director of Sales & Marketing.
Skills:
- Prior Hilton Hotels experience preferred.
- Prior resort/hotel experience preferred.
- At least 2 years’ experience in sales/management role preferred.
- Delphi fdc – Amadeus/Meeting Broker experience preferred.
- OnQ experience preferred.
- Microsoft Office experience required.
We offer a competitive wage, Health and Dental Insurance, company paid Life Insurance, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Vision, Critical Illness, Accidental, 401(k) and company match, Paid Time Off (PTO), free hotel rooms and hotel discounts.
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