Safety Harbor Resort & Spa Hiring for Resort National Sales Manager at Safety Harbor, FL Full Time

Safety Harbor Resort and Spa is looking for a seasoned sales manager who will drive the sales process in order to achieve revenue goals in his/her market. This individual must be a creative, high energy, hands on, take charge sales professional with proven sales skills. Additional characteristics include:

• Prospect for new group business and research business on-line
• Respond to inquiries and “requests for proposals”
• Solicit and book programs which maximize revenue for Rooms, Food and Beverage, meeting room rental, etc.
• Travel and make Sales Calls to promote facilities including appointments in your own location as well as occasional out of town trips to other locations for Trade Shows, Familiarization Events, Site Inspections, etc.
• Consistently meet measurable objectives for properties sales growth.
• Attend industry events
• Excellent oral, written, verbal communication, interpersonal and presentation skills required.
• Research client room night histories for previous meetings and manage the room block for the time of the meeting until the meeting begins
• Maintain in-depth account files in Delphi along with hard files
• Neat and professional appearance
• Understand sales strategies and tactics of competitor hotels
• Negotiate all rates for group accounts within the guidelines of our budgeted average rate

Requirements:

• Previous hotel sales experience REQUIRED.
• High School Diploma and/or Four year Business/Marketing College Degree or equivalent experience.
• Highly motivated individual with strong initiative and desire for achievement.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills required.
• Strong desire to achieve bottom-line results a must.
• Experience using SalesForce, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
• Must be willing to work weekends and holidays as needed