Events Sales Manager
IHG Hotels & Resorts
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Dammam
Contract type: Full time

Events Sales Manager - First Vignette Collection (Carliton Almoaibed Hotel)
We are seeking a talented and ambitious Events Sales Manager to join our team at the First Vignette Collection in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Carliton Almoaibed Hotel). This role requires someone with a passion for sales, excellent communication skills, and the ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
We’re always looking for new ways to raise the bar. So, we’re searching for an Events Sales Manager with a track record of driving sales and smashing targets to help us fill our rooms, meeting suites, and banquet halls.
Responsibilities:
We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you live your best work life. Our mission is to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome and valued. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We foster a culture of trust, support, and acceptance, encouraging colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting your health, lifestyle, and workplace well-being. Join us and become part of our ever-growing global family.
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.
We are seeking a talented and ambitious Events Sales Manager to join our team at the First Vignette Collection in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Carliton Almoaibed Hotel). This role requires someone with a passion for sales, excellent communication skills, and the ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
We’re always looking for new ways to raise the bar. So, we’re searching for an Events Sales Manager with a track record of driving sales and smashing targets to help us fill our rooms, meeting suites, and banquet halls.
Responsibilities:
- Selling hotel rooms and event spaces through direct client contact.
- Maintaining a high level of visibility for the hotel in major market areas through direct sales solicitation, telephone contacts, and written communication.
- Achieving personal and team sales goals.
- Implementing hotel-level tactical sales plans to achieve greater profitability by increasing average rates, increasing overall occupancy, increasing business volume during off-peak periods, and enhancing the image of the hotel in the local community.
- Developing and maintaining good relationships with officials and representatives of local community groups and companies, and attending out-of-town conventions and trade shows to promote new business and increase sales for the hotel.
- Producing monthly reports and sales forecasts for your assigned area of responsibility.
- Actively participating in forecasting and goal setting.
- Participating in the annual budget process and development of sales and marketing plans.
- Promoting teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments. Key departmental contacts include all hotel departments.
- Reviewing daily business levels, anticipating critical situations, and planning effective solutions in conjunction with department heads to best expedite these situations.
- Interacting with outside contacts:
- Guests – to ensure their total satisfaction.
- Airlines, wholesalers, corporate accounts, travel agencies, and ad agencies within local, domestic, and international markets – to ensure repeat business, follow up on events, and generate new business.
- Other contacts as needed (Professional organizations, community groups, local media)
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 4 years of total experience working with a variety of market segments, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a hospitality or hotel sales and marketing setting.
- Must speak fluent Arabic and English. Other languages are preferred.
- Frequently standing up or moving within and outside of the facility.
We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you live your best work life. Our mission is to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome and valued. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We foster a culture of trust, support, and acceptance, encouraging colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting your health, lifestyle, and workplace well-being. Join us and become part of our ever-growing global family.
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.
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