Now Hiring - Manager of Transient Sales in Fort Worth, TX

OUR COMPANY
Auberge Resorts Collection is a portfolio of extraordinary hotels, resorts, residences, and private clubs. While each property is unique, all share a crafted approach to luxury and bring the soul of the locale to life through captivating design, exceptional cuisine and spas, and gracious yet unobtrusive service. With hotels and resorts across three continents, Auberge invites guests to create unforgettable stories in some of the world’s most desirable destinations. Please visit aubergeresorts.com to learn more about our Collection. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Linkedin, Facebook and Pinterest: @AubergeResorts and #AlwaysAuberge.

Our mission is to be the best-loved manager of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences. Auberge is a family of intimate, one-of-kind hotels and resorts that define an approachable style of luxury in both product and service that resonates with the curious modern traveler. Passionately local, experience-led, romantic, and stylish, these hotels hum with a vibrancy that is both refined and relevant.

OUR PROPERTY
Bowie House, Auberge Resorts is an imaginative and bold new urban retreat that draws visitors to a place whose history is built on tales of frontier valor and adventure. An exciting gathering space for locals and visitors alike, the four-story, 106-room boutique hotel will feature 88 rooms and 18 suites, including a 2,250 square foot signature suite. Luxurious spaces weave together details from Western culture and style like boot jacks and hat racks with contemporary furnishings, lighting and artwork creating feelings of welcome and warmth.

A social hub for locals and visitors, Bowie House offers numerous spaces for visitors to enjoy the conviviality and camaraderie that have distinguished the location for so many years. Visitors can sip cocktails in the library lounge, visit the signature restaurant with views of the enchanting outdoor terraces or relax in cabanas on the second story outdoor infinity pool overlooking a peaceful garden oasis.

ROLE SUMMARY
Join our team as Transient Sales Manager and become one of the authors of our story. As part of the Auberge family, you will be responsible for identifying and sourcing leisure and business travel business in accordance with the Collection’s strategic plan to maximize room revenue during peak and nonpeak periods. This role reports directly to the Director of Sales and works closely with the Hotels teams to ensure that the leisure and business travel sales strategy is in line with properties business needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee account and production goal in the assigned region.
• Support Bowie House revenue goals by generating Leisure and Corporate Negotiated business
• Organize and schedule direct sales efforts via google meet, telephone, email and in person
• Evaluate and initiate opportunities for developing new sources of business.
• Plan and execute a 12-month strategic business plan.
• Play a key role in the development of the hotels leisure Trade marketing plan
• - Build effective relationships with consortia accounts - AMEX FHR, Virtuoso, Signature, etc.
• Build effective relationships with luxury travel agents in assigned territory.
• Support the hotel's wholesale account strategy.
• Accurately maintain and build a Salesforce database of clients. Responsible for overall accuracy of the Hotel’s database.
• Maintain ethical and professional standards of sales service.
• Maintain professional appearance and demeanor and to conduct personal behavior in a mature and professional business manner while representing the company.
• Travel and work flexible days and hours.
• Keep department heads informed of challenges so as to ensure prompt correction and ensure guest satisfaction.
• Provide feedback and goals and objectives in preparation of annual sales plans and budgets.
• Establish initiatives and execute direct sales objectives to promote Bowie House
• Evaluates promotional events, trade shows, community and industry events to make sure attendance produces the proper return on investment.
• Maintain customer, trade, industry and staff relations.
• Target key accounts to host familiarization trips to increase ROI.
• Work with tourism organization to maximize regional opportunities and buying power.
• Perform other duties as directed, developed or assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Four-year college degree or equivalent education/experience
• Minimum 5 years sales experience in a related position in luxury hotel sales environment
• Demonstrated record of driving sales revenues in hotel environment
• Travel requirements: ability to travel internationally to promote Bowie House to travel agents, at tradeshows, site visits, internal sales & marketing meetings, client meetings, and travel professional related FAMs.
• Ability to negotiate, convince, sell and influence transient decision makers and influencers.
• Ability to research and identify top prospects for growth of an existing account and develop new accounts.
• Excellent written & Communication skills
• Strong computer skills (Google Suite, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Social Media).
• Ability to present clear, concise and meaningful information to owners, guests, executives, managers and employees.
• Live and demonstrate our ENRICH values, internally and with clients.
• Ability to plan and execute sales trips on budget and in compliance with corporate travel policy.
• Full written and verbal fluency in English.
• Ability to perform job functions with attention to detail, speed and accuracy, prioritize, and organize.
• Ability to work cohesively with coworkers

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience selling luxury hotels
• Existing connections to TCU, SMU and DFW Society Families as well as business leaders
• Prior experience working with professional organizations that support leisure business
• Knowledge of GDS, [please apply online] AMEX FHR Portal
• Experience navigating RFPs and getting to the decision maker to earn the business
• Knowledge of the different industries that book Luxury hotels and how to get into their travel programs

OUR STORY
At Auberge, we are passionate about our mission to be the best-loved operator of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences. We are storytellers and story-makers, delivering simple pleasures and creating unforgettable memories. Born in Napa and inspired by the most relaxing places in the world, we prize simplicity, comfort, and beauty. Whatever role we play in Auberge, and wherever we work, we all live by the view that our core purpose is to enrich people’s lives. If you feel that our approach is aligned with your own passions and beliefs, then please share with us why you want to become part of our collection.

Auberge Resorts LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. Auberge Resorts LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Auberge Resorts LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.