Now Hiring - Professional Services Hotel Director of Sales and Marketing in Kansas City, KS

Candlewood Suites Kansas City Speedway is looking for a highly motivated individual to sell and market its full kitchenette suites. This extended-stay hotel is gone under full renovation right down to new beds. The ideal individual needs to be a people person and needs to have a can-do attitude.

What’s the job?

As Sales Director you’ll develop and set revenue sales and marketing strategies for the hotel to ensure plans are implemented, results are monitored, and sales goals are achieved. Regularly sell hotel rooms, meeting rooms, and food and beverage through direct client contacts.

Your day-to-day

People

· Manage everyday activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers

· Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognize good performance

· Train team members to make sure they deliver with compliance and to the standards we expect and have the tools they need to work efficiently

· Recommend or initiate any HR-related actions where needed

· Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create a sense of one team

Financial

· Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximize profitability

· Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals and maximize profitability. Participate in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, the hotel marketing plan and business plan, and financial plans

· Help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans including the hotel marketing plan

· Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage, and banquet sales

· Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyze current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share, and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan

Guest Experience

· Help guests - you’ll be happy to help if someone needs assistance with a request or complaint

· Provide guests with information (example: loyalty programs, area attractions, restaurants, and facility information) to enhance the guest experience

· Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and outside contacts in order to produce group and/or convention business, including room sales, food & beverage sales, and catering/banquet services

· Schedule conventions and/or business group activities at the hotel and coordinate with other hotel-level departments to facilitate services agreed upon by the sales office and prospective clients

Responsible Business

· Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally

· Identify improvements to marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with other departments

· Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Accountability

This is the top sales and marketing job in a limited-service hotel and may include meeting space and/or catering facilities. May manage the professional level and administrative sales team members.

How do I deliver this?

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all hotels.

Each hotel delivers True Hospitality in its own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

· True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests

· True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay

· True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs

· True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $49,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kansas City, KS 66109: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Experience:

• Hotel Sales: 1 year (Preferred)
• Sales: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person