Sales and Events ManagerThe Slaughters Country Inn - Sales / Res / Events • Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
This job offer is no longer available
Sales and Events Manager
The Slaughters Country Inn - Sales / Res / Events
- Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
- Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
About
Service Charge We pay our team service charge each month! All goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst the team at the hotel – every penny received is paid out to the team. The service charge can be in the region of £260 a month (close to £3,200 per year) over and above base pay, for a full‑time employee.
Contact Send us a WhatsApp message with
FAMILYFIRST
to
+44 7782 822774
to find out more, chat to us, and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you).
About the Role Come and join our team as a Sales and Events Manager and let your passion and personality shine.
Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to
show thoughtfulness
towards each other and our guests.
As a Sales and Events Manager, your role will be focused on securing new incremental sales and business opportunities for the hotels.
Hours Full time, permanent. Monday to Friday (some evening and weekend work may be required to meet with clients or oversee events).
Key Points About the Role
You'll collaborate closely with the General/Hotel Manager to create and implement a cohesive and agreed‑upon sales strategy and vision for the hotel.
You will focus on organising and hosting showcase events at the hotel in the region, that sell our properties and convert these events so they deliver a return on investment.
It will be important that you work with the central Revenue and Marketing departments, knowing what campaigns and strategies are in place and aligning the hotel’s sales activity to them in sync when it needs to be.
Ensuring robust sales planning at the hotel for key periods throughout the year will be vital, including agreeing suitable listings, regular internal sales activities and outreach actions.
You will use knowledge of the market and competitors to identify sales messages for the hotel’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.
You’ll oversee and manage the hotel’s social media accounts, using appropriate messaging to create awareness of the hotel and what it can offer.
There will be key sales KPI’s (delivered by your manager), to help drive profitability.
Ideal Candidate
Have a strong background in hospitality sales.
Be a naturally sales‑focused individual, who is confident communicating to all types of people.
Have outstanding persuasion, presentation, and negotiation skills.
Have great industry contacts (quality and volume) and utilise their networks exceptionally well to achieve an overall goal of increasing sales (knowledge of the region and its tourism industry is a plus).
Think through sales commercially, making sure planned activity drives profit as well as sales.
Be happy to work with the wider group marketing and revenue team to coordinate activity to get the best results.
Be able to travel regularly for the role, including overnight stays where needed.
Be good with IT, being able to produce and analyse sales reports and data regularly.
Perks
Competitive pay – we are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
Hotel Management Bonus Scheme.
Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels, plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
We sustain you physically too – meals when you are on duty are free.
To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to
be curious . Everyone can learn and develop – our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us – our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.
About Our Family of Hotels We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.
Each of our hotels is unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.
We have very unique hotels in very special locations – from the award‑winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900‑year‑old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th‑century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk.
Get in Touch If you're the type of person that likes to learn and
share the wisdom , get in touch.
Send us a WhatsApp message with
FAMILYFIRST
to
+44 7782 822774
to find out more, chat to us, and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you).
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Languages
- English
Notice for Users
This job was posted by one of our partners. You can view the original job source here.