Groups & Events Sales Executive

Emsiar Turizm Yatırım Otelcilik Ltd.Şti

Marriott Hotels, Marriott International’s flagship brand with more than 10000 global locations, is advancing the art of hosting so that our guests can travel brilliantly. As a host with Marriott Hotels, you will help keep this promise by delivering premium choices, sophisticated style, and well-crafted details. With your skills and imagination, together we will innovate and reinvent the future of travel.

We are now recruiting for a dynamic and passionate Groups&Events Sales Executive to join our team.

As our new Groups&Events Sales Executive, you will be responsible for:

• Analysis local market trends and competitor activity to identify new business leads.
• Develop customer accounts and travel within the local area to drive business into the specific hotel/cluster and to increase market/customer share in all revenue streams.
• Prepare company contracts for the hotel in customer with current business and pricing conditions.
• Work within current business strategies and recognising potential opportunities.
• Corporate with other departments in the hotel to create an exceptional Guest experience and build strong, comprehensive sales programs.
• Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards; identify, recommend, develop, and implement new ways to increase organizational quality.
• Produce accurate and timely reports that meet the needs of the Director of Sales & Marketing and senior management.
• Grow existing accounts and generate new business to exceed budget and maximize revenue and profits.
• To ensure maximisation of sales and revenue for the hotel by being aware of all sales opportunities within all areas of the Hotel.
• Preparing the contract and following up pre-payments.
• Organizing sales call programs, visitings existing and potential clients in order to drive business, pruduce demand, collects inquiries.

Qualifications:

• University degree in Tourism and Hotel Management.
• 2+ years proven hotel sales executive experience.
• Knowledge of hospitality
• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken in English and Turkish.
• Able to develop and execute sales focused projects, Strategic thinking skills.
• Strong organization, planning and communication skills, excellent pronunciation.
• Ability in following up daily and long-term agenda.
• No restrictions to travel abroad, B type active driving license.
• Knowledge of local market.     
• Passion for sales and for achieving targets and objectives. 

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Marriott International does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.