Sales Manager

• Monitors competitors activities and assists in marketing intelligence
• Refers sales leads to appropriate personnel within the InterContinental Hotels Group
• Sells to new, existing and prospective customers considering goals set forth in the sales strategy, negotiating optimum rate for the benefit of the business
• Interfaces with operations on a timely basis
• Initiates and prepares tenders for business
• In the absence of DOSM, conducts briefings to ensure hotel activities and operational requirements are in place
• Actively participate in staff activities
• Conduct client interviews
• Services existing business through management of account bases
• Sell all facets of the hotel
• Manage the corporate head office and the preferred hotel history for that company
• Develop and maintain a regular pattern of sales calls, meeting with principals of target market
• Provides direction on, and conducts market research and analysis
• Develops and maintains contact with business generators, meeting and convention planners, visitors/convention bureau, travel agents, tour operators, airlines, corporate accounts, Government Departments and other producers closely allied to Hotel business
• Plan and conduct familiarization tours and site inspections
• Travel when required to promote the hotel and develop potential business
• Maintain regular contact with the IHG hotels in your region and the regional reservation office
• Analyses sales mix and likely impact on hotel goals
• Implement direction from Director of Sales and Marketing and Regional Managers
• Liaison with advertising agency
• Stock control of collateral
• Collateral input
• Execute advertising/creative briefs in a timely manner
• Works with superior on manpower planning and management needs
• Monitors existing business and inputs into sales strategy meetings to maximize business

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