What are the responsibilities and job description for the Group Sales Manager position at Marriott?
Join our team at North Charleston Marriott!We're looking for a dedicated and experienced Group Sales Manager to join our vibrant and fast-paced hotel team. We offer competitive pay based on experience, plus great perks like health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, travel discounts, and more. We're seeking candidates with open availability, including weekends and holidays, who are ready to deliver outstanding guest experiences in a fast-paced, supportive environment. Apply today and grow your hospitality career with us!
Essential Job Functions
- Expectation to dedicate significant portion of time to direct telephone solicitation sales.
- New Business development for property, predominantly from Association Group Market.
- Meet or exceed assigned revenue goals: rooms, F&B, Meeting Room Rental, Incremental.
- Represent AURO Hotels professionally to our clients/guests and business partners.
- Assure that all transactions with guests are handled in a legal, ethical manner.
- Notifies various department heads of arrangements made to ensure high level of service and guest satisfaction. Manage time effectively, maximize sales time, focus on priorities, and complete assigned reports and projects in a timely manner.
- Possess strong working knowledge of business development and sales techniques, catering and banquet operations, yield management, service standards and techniques, guest relations and etiquette, food and beverage, service ware and equipment, menu development and general hotel knowledge and practical ability to apply business knowledge in a hotel setting.
- Responsible for maintaining lost business report files and tracking tentative and definite business by market segments.
- Responsible for the maintenance of mailing list to be used in soliciting future business.
- Meets assigned market segment's budgeted sales and profit margin by soliciting, selling, and confirming business as required.
- Achieves budgeted goals by executing sales activities within assigned market segment.
- Maintains proper flow of information within the hotel by reviewing sales work file of assigned accounts.
- Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties, work hours and/or responsibilities for this job at any time.
Experience/Education
College degree in Hotel Administration preferred; 2‐3 years hotel Sales Manager/Supervisor experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in hotel of similar size and nature. Must be able to speak, read, and understand English.
Auro Hotels is an Equal Employment Opportunity and E-Verify Employer. All applicants are subject to background and substance abuse screening prior to any offer of employment.