Sales and Marketing Manager at a Highly Rated Ultra-Luxury Hotel - FlexEdge Limited

FlexEdge - Our client, a highly rated ultra-luxury hotel in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja is recruiting suitable, qualified and well experienced candidate to fill this position:

Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager

Location: Abuja
Reporting to: General Manager

Position Objective
The objective for the Executive Sales and Marketing Manager position is to:

• Develop, establish and maintain sales & marketing strategies to meet hotel objectives.
• Plan and carry out all sales activities on key accounts or areas.

Role / Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate all sales, marketing and promotional activities
• Conceiving and developing efficient and intuitive sales strategies
• Manage the productivity of the marketing plans and projects
• Carry out strategic marketing and sales at high-level through networking activities
• Drive major industry initiatives geared towards business stimulation and market expansion
• Initiate unique offering that meets customer requirements and stimulate their wants
• Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market
• Coordinate unit to seek out new sales leads and convert them to customers
• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with customers and understanding their needs
• Conducting market research and analysis to identify and evaluate customer needs, trends and sales possibilities
• Set and drive sales targets for sales and marketing team
• Monitor team's performance and motivate them to reach given target
• Develop and deliver appropriate presentations on hotel services and facilities, quotes and proposals
• Monitor, review and report on all marketing activity and results to include sales forecast, projections and financial data
• Create frequent reviews and reports with sales and
• Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections
• Conduct quality checks on service delivery
• Monitor competitors, market conditions and hotel service development

Qualities and Skills Required

• Sales and Target Driven
• Persuasive with strong negotiating skills and techniques
• Exceptional Leadership qualities
• Self-motivated with a results-driven approach
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Amiable personality
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Organization and Planning Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Exceptional presentation skills
• Smart, intelligent with eyes for details

Professional / Educational Requirements:

• Business or Marketing-related degree or equivalent professional qualification
• A minimum of 6 years working experience in the hospitality industry with 4 years Significant experience in a sales managerial position
• Experience in all aspects of developing and implementing sales & marketing strategies
• Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Power point and excel
• Proven experience in customer and market research

Application Closing Date
12th May 2017

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: careers@flexedge.com.ng with “SMM-HOSP-FCT” as subject of the mail.

Note

• Failure to use code as subject of the mail automatically disqualifies candidate
• Only qualified candidates will be contacted