Business Development & Sales Manager Hotel

We are looking for an energetic, outgoing, and results-driven Business Development & Sales Manager to help grow our hotel by generating new business and developing strong relationships within the local market.

This is a hands-on sales and business development position focused on bringing new clients, new accounts, and new revenue to the hotel. The successful candidate will actively prospect for new business, make cold calls, schedule client meetings, develop corporate and group accounts, attend networking events, and identify opportunities across all areas of hotel revenue.

The role also includes a strong marketing component, including social media management, content creation, promotions, and digital outreach to increase the hotel's visibility and generate new leads.

The ideal candidate is confident, creative, persistent, highly motivated, and comfortable taking the initiative to find new business and turn prospects into long-term clients.

Primary Goal

Generate new clients, new accounts, bookings, and revenue for the hotel through proactive sales, business development, networking, prospecting, and marketing.

Key Responsibilities & Qualifications:

• Generate new hotel business and revenue by proactively pursuing opportunities for guest rooms, corporate accounts, group bookings, meetings, conferences, weddings, social events, extended stays, travel/tourism, and other hotel services.
• Conduct consistent outbound sales activity, including cold calls, prospecting calls, emails, follow-ups, and direct outreach to potential clients and businesses.
• Identify and develop new accounts by researching the local market, targeting businesses and organizations, and creating strategies to turn prospects into paying clients.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships with corporations, local businesses, event planners, organizations, travel professionals, community groups, and other potential sources of business.
• Schedule and conduct sales meetings, presentations, client visits, and hotel tours to showcase the property and convert prospects into new business.
• Maintain an active sales pipeline and consistently follow up with leads, prospects, and existing accounts to maximize opportunities and increase conversions.
• Develop new corporate, group, event, and community partnerships that create ongoing sources of room nights, bookings, meetings, events, and other hotel revenue.
• Represent the hotel in the local community by attending networking events, trade shows, business functions, community activities, and other events that generate relationships and new leads.
• Develop and execute marketing strategies and promotions designed to increase hotel visibility, generate leads, attract new customers, and support sales and revenue goals.
• Manage and grow the hotel's social media presence by creating engaging photos, videos, reels, stories, promotional content, and campaigns showcasing the hotel's rooms, amenities, events, services, and guest experience.
• Track and take ownership of sales performance, including prospecting activity, calls, meetings, new accounts, room nights, group and event business, lead conversion, marketing-generated leads, and revenue generated.
• Work closely with hotel management and operations to ensure client expectations are met while maintaining a professional brand image and delivering exceptional service.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity for a motivated sales professional to play a direct role in the growth and success of the hotel.

You will have the opportunity to build your own network, develop new business relationships, create marketing initiatives, represent the hotel in the community, and see the direct results of your sales efforts.

If you are driven, outgoing, creative, persistent, and passionate about sales and hospitality, we would love to hear from you.

Pay: $35,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Salary : $35,000 - $75,000