Director of Sales

Negotiable
Experience
Unlimited
Job Type
Full Time
Location
Kuwait, Kuwait City
Job Description

style="font-size: 12pt;">People 

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plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
 
style="font-family: Arial;"> style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Arial;">Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching
and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues -
recognize 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
 
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Financial 

style="font-size: 12pt;">Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximize
profitability  
style="font-size: 12pt;">Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals
and maximize profitability. Participate in the preparation of the annual
departmental operating budget, the hotel marketing plan and business plan,
and financial plans 
style="font-size: 12pt;">Help prepare the departmental budget and financial
plans including the hotel marketing plan  
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that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase
volume, food and beverage and banquet sales  
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forecasts to analyze 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
 

 

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Experience 
 

Help guests - you’ll be happy to help if
someone needs assistance with a request or complaint
 
style="font-family: Arial;"> style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Arial;">Provide guests with information (example: loyalty programmed, area
attractions, restaurants, facility information) to enhance guest experience
 
style="font-family: Arial;"> style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Arial;">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
 
style="font-family: Arial;"> style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Arial;">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  
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of your hotel and the brand locally  
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activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with other departments
 
style="font-family: Arial;"> style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Ad-hoc
duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get
a task done  

 

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normal;">Accountability  

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normal;">This is the top sales and marketing job in a full or limited
service hotel and may include meeting space and/or catering facilities.
May manage professional level and administrative sales team
members.   

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