Catering & Convention Sales Manager (Pre-Opening)
The St. Regis Zhuhai
Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, China
~Maximizing Revenue & Managing Profitability• Identifies, qualifies and solicits new catering business to achieve personal and hotel revenue goals.• Understands the overall market - competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them.• Gains understanding of the hotel’s primary target customer and service expectations.• Ensures successful performance by increasing revenues, controlling expenses and providing a return on investment for the owner and the business.~Managing Sales Activities• Manages the sales efforts for the hotel related to local social catering business.• Responds to incoming catering opportunities for the hotel.• Closes the best opportunities for the hotel based on market conditions and hotel needs.• Identifies and assists with selling, implementing and following-through on catering promotions.~Building Successful Relationships• Develops a close working relationship with operations to ensure execution of strategies at the hotel level.• Works with the management team to create and implement a catering sales plan addressing revenue, customers and market.• Works with the property’s Food and Beverage team to develop menus that drive sales.• Ensures that the property implements a seamless turnover from sales to operations and back to sales while consistently delivering high level of service.~Providing Exceptional Customer Service• Serves the customer by understanding their business, business issues and concerns, to offer better business solution both prior to, and during the program/event.• Executes exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and ensuring their satisfaction before and during their program/event.