Sales & Event Manager

The Indigo Road Hospitality Group • Bentonville, AR

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About The Position

The Sales & Event Manager will apply their operations experience and team leadership skills to ensure that each IRHG hotel is providing a great experience for team members and guests and maximizing all hotel profit opportunities.

The Sales & Event Manager has dual reporting responsibility to the hotel’s general manager and to the home office director of events, catering, and rooms sales.

Requirements

• 2 years of hotel sales experience preferred.
• College Degree or equivalent industry experience
• SMERF experience preferred
• Proven leadership skills
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Strong supervisory and personnel management experience
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong ability to sell ideas
• Ability to handle multiple ongoing projects in a fast-paced team environment
• Ability to work independently on projects and collaborate as a strong team member
• Excellent attention to detail, flexible and adaptable to change
• Ability to operate under pressure and meet or exceed deadlines
• Excellent organizational, time-management and analytical skills
• Positive, outgoing, and self-motivating individual with pleasant personality and strong leadership skills
• Ability to maintain a professional manner and appearance in all situations

Responsibilities

• Work with the Indigo Road Hospitality Group Home Office Leadership team and, in particular, with the senior operations leaders and the Revenue Management Team and Indigo Road marketing partners on developing sales growth strategies for driving total top line revenue generation for each business unit.
• Oversee and support the property-based sales teams.
• Insure effective selling processes are in place.
• Be a task force manager at the unit level from time to time as needed.
• Work with sales teams to support major and critical developing client accounts
• Inspire the Sales team to work collaboratively toward a shared vision, while providing ongoing mentoring, coaching, and development opportunities
• Build high performing, cohesive, customer focused solutions sales teams.
• Identify, develop, and retain high performing sales professionals
• Demonstrate a high level of integrity, take ownership of personal and team actions, communicate effectively, promote collaboration, nurture a positive, professional work environment, and ensure development of a successful sales strategy.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: Competitive base pay, performance-based bonuses (paid quarterly), and PTO benefits after 90 days.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health insurance coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and more.
• Financial Planning: Access to a 401K plan with a 50% match on your first 6% investment, along with Roth options.
• Home Loan Program: We offer a zero-interest housing loan program to help you achieve your dream of home ownership.
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy discounts at our 15 restaurant concepts and growing boutique hotels division.
• Family Time: Benefit from 4 weeks of PTO for maternity/paternity leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager