Sales Director

SkyBridge Luxury & Associates is currently seeking an experienced Area Director of Sales to join an Ultra-Luxury Resort in the Los Angeles area. If you have a proven track record in luxury hospitality sales and a passion for delivering unparalleled guest experiences, we want to hear from you!

What you’ll do

You’ll love what you do and take pride in delighting our guests:

• Our Area Director of Sales is responsible for developing the sales strategy to solicit and further develop existing accounts’ revenue goals. Working alongside the Sales Directors/Managers develop sales strategies to prospect and uncover new business in an assigned market territory. They monitor Hotelligence reports and other hospitality-related resources to gain market share from the competitive set.
• Assists the team to maintain an accurate and clean Nexus account database. They ensure all opportunities are inputted into Nexus on a timely basis. They may conduct tours of the hotel and coordinate on-site client entertainment to showcase all hotel services and amenities. Travel to attend trade shows/events and conduct sales calls may be required.
• Our Area Director of Sales keeps a pulse on the team culture and they facilitate conversations to provide support, recognition, and inspiration. They promote consensus and harmony within the team and between the two Los Angeles Hotels and they empower the sales team to deliver the ultimate guest experience including problem resolution.
• Create strategic roadmaps and action plans to support the efforts to reach individual and team goals and maintain a birds-eye view of the department and division to produce efficiencies.
• Spot and compile market trends and relevant business information for Sales Directors and lead all prospecting efforts.
• Our Directors also lead recruitment and create succession planning to promote internal growth within the team. This will include owning the performance development for the department, managing all time and attendance of the sales team and coaching/counseling in accordance with the pledge and People and Culture, funneling in information from the team to understand the big picture view of sales and being responsible for goal setting for sales leadership with the Area Director of Sales and Marketing and attending all daily/weekly sales daily business reviews, revenue/forecast meetings, GRC/pipeline reviews, and morning meetings. They do all this to ensure our guests receive nothing but the best experience.
• Assists the Area Director of Sales and Marketing with the development of the marketing plan and budget for each of the various markets/territories. They work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the hotel. The Area Director of Sales manages the Sales Directors/Managers as well as the sales administrative assistants and coordinators to ensure completion of daily tasks and assists with further development of their potential within the properties . Participates in all relevant meetings including, forecast, daily business revenue, and weekly revenue and sales meetings.

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