Sales Manager

At **Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi**, we take pride in our GPTW certification and the exceptional work environment we offer to our team members. Joining us as a **Sales Manager - Corporate** means becoming part of a dynamic and supportive team that values collaboration, growth, and recognition. We provide opportunities for professional development, competitive compensation, and a range of benefits and perks.

**A little taste of your day-to-day**:
**Every day is different, but you’ll mostly be**:

- Manage everyday activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
- Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance
- Train colleagues to make sure they deliver with compliance and to the standards we expect and have the tools they need to work efficiently
- Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
- Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive - connect departments to create sense of one team
- Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability
- Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability. Participate in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, the hotel marketing plan and business plan, and financial plans
- Help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans including the hotel marketing plan
- Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage and banquet sales
- Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan
- Help guests - you’ll be happy to help if someone needs assistance with a request or complaint
- Provide guests with information (example: loyalty programmes, area attractions, restaurants, facility information) to enhance guest experience
- Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and outside contacts in order to produce group and/or convention business, to include room sales, food & beverage sales, and catering/banquet services
- Schedule conventions and/or business group activities at the hotel and coordinate with other hotel-level departments to facilitate services agreed upon by the sales office and prospective clients
- Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally
- Identify improvements to marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with other departments
- Ad-hoc duties - unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

**What We need from you**:

- Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in marketing or related field
- Four or more years of experience in a hospitality or hotel sales and marketing setting with direct supervisory experience over a sales team
- Strong knowledge of local businesses and business trends required
- Must speak local language(s)
- Other languages preferred

**What you can expect from us**:
We give our people everything they need to succeed. From a competitive salary that rewards all your hard work to a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life - including impressive room discounts and some of the best training in the business.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

IHG gives every member of the team the room they need to belong, grow and make a difference in a collaborative environment. We know that to work well, we need to feel well - both inside and outside of work - and through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.

**_So, join us and you’ll become part of our ever-growing global family._**

Travel is a journey. We help make it a joy. Starting with a warm, inviting welcome for all guests, whether travelling on business or for fun, enjoying a one night stay, or relaxing for a week. At Holiday Inn®️ we thrive on making our guests stays brighter, helping them create memories that will last a lifetime. Irresistible smiles are our specialty. We should know, we’ve been on our journey since 1952.

So if you can help our guests enjoy the brighter side of travel, we’d love to give you a warm welcome to the Holiday Inn®️ family.

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