What are the responsibilities and job description for the Membership Development Manager position at 55 Seventy?
Club Overview:
55 Seventy is a private membership club reinventing wine and culinary experiences. The club offers its members a unique and sophisticated environment to build professional relationships or entertain peers. Our members access luxury wine storage, elevated dining, and a premiere events calendar. As a destination for the discerning, we pride ourselves on providing an exquisite environment for leisure and business interactions.
We seek an organized, proactive, and detail-oriented individual to support our membership initiatives, such as event and community outreach, executive sales directives, and correspondence efforts. This individual will additionally collaborate with departments to support marketing, operations, culinary, wine, and event team initiatives to streamline our membership growth. This is a full-time position on-site in Dallas, TX.
We are seeking a Membership Development Manager to be an integral part of the team and elevate our Membership development process. This person will lead the communication, interaction, and outreach for prospective members.
The Membership Development Manager is responsible for all aspects of generating new membership leads, converting prospective members, managing a waitlist, coordinating visits, leading community outreach, organizing prospective membership events, and working closely with local businesses. Additionally, this position is responsible for handling member communications, addressing issues and questions, and ensuring a positive experience and flow of communication for the membership.
This position will require the candidate to work some nights and weekends.
Job duties & responsibilities:
- Develop and execute an outreach and marketing plan to generate new membership leads, including the management of a system to track all prospects.
- Coordinate and handle logistics for all prospective members from initial outreach through payment and registration.
- Develop working partnerships with local businesses, community hubs and other local partners.
- Engage with current members to build relationships and source referrals.
- Coordinate events with local businesses for prospective membership outreach
- Analyze and report monthly membership and prospect KPIs and statistics.
- Communicate with management and provide suggestions and feedback to ensure member satisfaction.
- Ensure all membership sales goals are being met and ideally exceeded on a monthly basis.
The ideal candidate will possess the following minimum qualifications:
- Strong passion for hospitality, events, and wine; more importantly, a passion for customer service and delivering an exceptional guest experience.
- Ten (10) years of experience in a related role requiring frequent guest interaction, ensuring guest satisfaction, coordination and guest outreach (verbal and written), strategic planning, and problem-solving.
- Five (5) years of leadership experience in hospitality management, a guest interaction position, membership sales, or related role.
- Exceptional communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, hospitality, travel industry management, or related field; but relevant experience can substitute for degree requirements.
Benefits and Comp Package:
- Base Salary
- Commission
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Travel/Vacation Stipend
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance