Gerente de Ventas - MICE (Base en Bangkok) - Holiday Inn Pattaya

A little taste of your day-to-day:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities – (Key Activities of the role)

• Monitors competitors activities and assists in marketing intelligence 
• Refers sales leads to appropriate personnel within the InterContinental Hotels Group
• Sells to new, existing and prospective customers considering goals set forth in the sales strategy, negotiating optimum rate for the benefit of the business
• Services existing business through management of account bases
• Sell all facets of the hotel
• Manage the corporate head office and the preferred hotel history for that company
• Develop and maintain a regular pattern of sales calls, meeting with principals of target market 
• Provides direction on, and conducts market research and analysis
• Develops and maintains contact with business generators, meeting and convention planners, visitors/convention bureau, travel agents, tour operators, airlines, corporate accounts, Government Departments and other producers closely allied to Hotel business
• Builds profile within local market place through attendance at various events and local market place
• Conduct client interviews
• Entertain clients
• Plan and conduct familiarization tours and site inspections
• Travel when required to promote the hotel and develop potential business
• Maintain regular contact with the IHG hotels in your region and the regional reservation office
• Monitors existing business and inputs into sales strategy meetings to maximize business 
• Grows existing business and establishes and pursues leads which will develop business
• Interfaces with operations on a timely basis
• Initiates and prepares tenders for business 
• Assesses sales and marketing data
• Assists with the preparation of new products and services
• Assists in the evaluation of sales and marketing activities
• Analyses sales mix and likely impact on hotel goals

What We need from you:

Required Skills –

• Demonstrated ability to interact with customers, employees and third parties that reflects highly on the hotel, the brand and the Company.
• Problem solving, reasoning, motivating, organizational and training abilities.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
• Good writing skills

Qualifications –

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Sales & Marketing, Hotel Management, Business Administration, or related field preferred. 

Experience –

• 3 years related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience