Head Sales and Marketing

Job Description

Title: Head Sales and Marketing

Company Name: FARS Hotel Resorts

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ 4-year degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or MBA.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 5 to 8 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Maintain and promote a team work environment with effective and clear communication amongst co-workers.
∎ Ensure best client service is being made available through communication amongst the team, cross training within the department and appropriate office coverage.
∎ Works with sales managers to ensure understanding of sales strategy and effective implementation of this strategy for the segment.
∎ Works with management team to create and implement a sales plan addressing revenue, customers and the market.
∎ Set an example through professional, friendly attitude towards clients and co-workers, timely response to clients and co-workers needs and observance of sales office standard.
∎ Ensure the hotel meets or exceeds budgeted goals.
∎ Follow and track company cross-sell procedures.
∎ Organize travel agent month and travel agent appreciation rates for slow months.
∎ Assists with the development and implementation of promotions, both internal and external.
∎ Creating a focus on attracting new business.
∎ Attending and contributing to the monthly sales strategy meeting
∎ Updating and owning the sales strategy & sales plan with the General Manager.
∎ Review and approves any special corporate negotiated rates by signing the contract.
∎ Provides positive and aggressive leadership to ensure maximum revenue potential (e.g., sets example with personal booking goals).
∎ Leads on-property sales functions to build long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of hotel sales objectives.
∎ Recommends monthly room nights target goals for sales team members.
∎ Participates in sales calls with members of sales team to acquire new business and/or close on business.
∎ Develop and send informative press releases to targeted lists highlighting all activities and promotions.
∎ Maintain and expand corporate incentive program via direct mail, personal visits etc.
∎ Oversee and ensure the updating of rates, promotions on hotel website, OTA's (Online travel agents), etc. without any rate parity.
∎ Responsible for the training of sales managers and staff.
∎ Follow and promote hotel standards with guests, co-workers.
∎ Evaluates and drives the hotel's participation in the various sales channels, Market Sales, Event Booking Centers, electronic lead channels, etc.
∎ Monitors all day to day activities of direct reports.
∎ Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence).

Additional Requirements:
∎ 5 to 8 years experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area. And min three years experience in a senior sales role.
∎ High degree of commercial awareness and be able to understand links between sales and profit with excellent sales and negotiation skills.
∎ Good business sense and the ability to motivate and lead a team.

Salary:
∎ As per company policy

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per company policy

Application Deadline: February 25, 2020

Company Information:
∎ FARS Hotel & Resorts
∎ Address : 212, Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam Sarani, Purana Paltan (Bijoy Nagar), Dhaka-1000.
∎ Business : 4 Star Hotel having 114 Rooms situated at Purana Paltan.

Category: Marketing/Sales

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