Assistant Director of Sales – Leisure

Job Description

Job description / Role

Assistant Director of Sales – Leisure

As an Assistant Director of Sales – Leisure, you will manage the hotel sales and marketing plans by recommending growth efforts, monitoring progress, and ensuring that the hotel is competitively positioned within the local market place.

What is in it for you:

– Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide
– Learning programs through our Academies
– Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world!
– Ability to make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, like Planet 21

What you will be doing:

– Manage the total sales efforts within the leisure segment for the hotel through local Destination Management Companies (DMC\’s) and to pro-actively generate revenue.
– Develop and maintain relationship with key wholesalers /tour operators in order to produce FIT business and tour series.
– Provide ongoing market intelligence by monitoring business sources and segments.
– Represent hotel at trade fairs, functions and other related events as directed.
– Ensure that sales blitzes in the local city or outstation for the geographic area of responsibility are conducted timely and efficiently.
– Conducts rate market surveys to advise management of actual market trends.
– Report on trends in the industry and local markets.