Director of Sales & Marketing (New York)

Job Description
The Director of Sales & Marketing serves as The Peninsula New York’s’ representative responsible for rooms and banquet sales, revenue management, brand marketing, communications and digital marketing strategies, activities, and budgets, including, but not limited to developing and implementing revenue driven and brand increasing sales and marketing promotions.
Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for developing and implementing room and banquets revenue management strategy and activities, including, but not limited to directing room sales/reservations team, compiling statistical and competitive research analysis, forecasting room revenue, inventory control, optimizing online travel agent (OTA) sites and more.
• Annual Brand Marketing & Communications strategies and activities, including but not limited to public relations and social media strategies and activities with a mandate to gain maximum brand exposure to achieve the annual hotel revenue budgets.
• Well-versed in the hotel’s profitability points and use them to evaluate business from domestic and international business to provide input for future rate setting and negotiations.
• Monitor competitive pricing for all revenue streams and recommend appropriate actions in relation to the hotel’s pricing and market mix strategy to achieve budget.
• Responsible for serving as The Peninsula Hotels’ spokesperson in NYC and is responsible for acting as an advisor to the group and hotel’s senior management under all circumstances with regards to NYC public relations and brand communications activities.
• Accountable for the performance of Sales/Marketing/Revenue team members ensuring that their productivity aligns with budget expectations and overall maximizing revenue growth in all areas.
• Serves as the Brand Guardian and ensures that all hotel promotions and brand marketing assets (i.e., photography, video, collateral materials, advertisements, copywriting, etc.…) are in keeping with The Peninsula Hotels brand standards and reflect the highest level of professionalism in content and presentation.
  

General Requirements

• University degree or higher in relevant field.
• Previous experience (eight years or more) in sales, brand marketing, communications, public relations, digital marketing, or revenue management.
• Strong sales and marketing expertise. Financial and consumer marketing acumen.
• Ability to communicate well with all levels of management and staff. Self-starter; creative; independent, but team oriented.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills; analytical; socially adept; detailed-oriented and organized; goals and results-oriented; articulate.
  

We are delighted to receive your resume for further consideration. To be considered for the position, you must have work authorization in the United States. The salary range for this position is $230,000 - $250,000 annually.