Group Sales Director - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Switch Hospitality

Switch Hospitality

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you passionate about developing and inspiring your people to be the best they can be whilst also ensuring that you are a strategic, trailblazer for Sales and continually evolving?

This is something that the Sales Team at Switch Hospitality Management have in the bucketload.

It is their dedication to creating magic for our employees which keeps us at the top of our game and ensures we are the best place to work.

In fact, we were awarded 16th Best Place to work in Hospitality in 2021 (best in Birmingham) and this award means the most to us as it was voted for by our team.

Our wide range of employee benefits and personalised training and development plans ensure that our team
love where they work.

These include a full training and development platform, meals on duty, an enhanced pension plan, life insurance, private medical insurance and 20% bonus plus many more.

We now have an exciting opportunity for Group Sales Director to lead our Sales function. This role reports directly to the Managing Director and you will sit on the Switch Hospitality Senior Management Team.

As a Group Sales Director, you will be required to
master the art of versatility and
inject some energy whilst completing a variety of duties.

We are looking for someone who will take responsibility for the achievement of the revenue target achieving healthy profit margins.

The Sales Director will execute the full proactive sales journey including identifying, securing, and maintaining revenue generating business.

The Sales Director will lead all proactive sales dialogue with potential clients and will efficiently and strategically secure business in line with annual sales targets and commercial strategies.

The Sales Director will be responsible for sales activity relating to all hotel revenue streams including rooms division, food and beverage and MICE.

The ideal person will have previous experience in a similar role within hospitality.

You will have good knowledge of Hotel systems, excellent IT and communication skills and have experience of creating budgets and managing people.

Strong sales and commercial employment history representing MICE and corporate hotel offerings across multiple sites. Acute financial awareness, capability to contribute to the hotel's budgeting and strategy processes. Ability to multitask and juggle differing priorities including stakeholders and brands.

We are continually evolving, and our team do too, there is no red tape or corporate conflict with us

**We Evolve - You Evolve - We Grow Together