Catering and Conference Services Executive

4 weeks ago


الرياض, Saudi Arabia Marriott International, Inc Full time

**Additional Information**
**Job Number**24218180
**Job Category**Sales & Marketing
**Location**The Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, AlHada Area, Mekkah Road, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, 11493
**Schedule**Full Time
**Located Remotely?**N
**Position Type** Management

**JOB SUMMARY**

Drives revenue to achieve Hotel’s topline goals for each of their represented hotels by proactively soliciting all business segments; to include new business from small business accounts, sourcing new accounts, identifying new targets, and re-soliciting past business leads. Focuses on properties BT Pricing strategy. Provides property support by coordinating and executing property internal mining efforts at assigned hotels. Partners with Leadership to ensure competitive sales strategies are in place for the hotel and stay competitive within the market by aligning on sales activities to generate business and communicate real-time competitor intel. Reports directly to Property Sales Leader (ASL or DOS/DOSM) and works closely with the hotel General Managers, focuses on sales driven tasks. May work with Local Sales and U.S. Account Sales/GSO teams to drive production from targeted high priority accounts including maximizing special corporate business within the represented market place.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience**

**Required**:

- 2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; no work experience required.

**Preferred**:

- 4-year college degree; previous experience in proactive lead generation in hospitality and sales discipline; knowledge of property-specific business segments (e.g. group, catering, transient); knowledge the hospitality industry.

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**

**Managing Sales Activities**
- Works with Property Sales Leader (ASL or DOS/DOSM) in identifying the top accounts of each stakeholder hotel, determine account deployment structure, identify key buyers within each account, and coordinate efforts to drive demand and pull-through business from the accounts for the stakeholder hotels.
- Assist Property Sales Leader in identifying share shift targets.
- Ensures effective and efficient funnel management through available systems and collaborating with Multi-Hotel Sales.
- Manages daily Status Change reports to help close on hotel business.
- May work with Local Sales, U.S. Account Sales/GSO teams to drive production from targeted high priority accounts including maximizing special corporate business within the represented market place.
- Provides property support by coordination and executing property internal mining efforts to assigned hotels
- Solicits new business from non-deployed small business accounts, reader boards, and leads sent through internal referral mechanisms.
- Solicits potential new accounts or business opportunities by leveraging business intelligence provided by Sales & Marketing Planning and Support or other third-party data sources to generate leads.
- Utilizes internal lead referral tools (e.g., eProspecting Portal) to solicit new business opportunities and contacts.
- Ensure Hotel has property lead generation program to identify new business.
- Re-solicits non-deployed realized opportunities, including turndowns, lost opportunities, and actualized business when appropriate.
- Drives customer satisfaction through daily interactions (e.g., solicitations, re-solicitations, account calls, site inspections, new business calls, face to face activities, etc.).
- Conducts customer facing sales activities on behalf of the hotels in partnership with Property Coordinator/Resource as appropriate. (e.g., lunch and learns, social hours, company of the month activities, local industry events, Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Activities, etc.).
- Conducts site inspections for customer accounts as appropriate.
- Maintains complete and up-to-date lead information on each account in CI/TY SFA Web and EMPOWER to verify accurate reporting and customer base information.
- Qualifies and maintains customer’s long-term business potential and refers customers to market, field, hotel or national sales office, as required.
- Verifies accurate and timely lead turnover to other Sales Channels and partners closely with the Multi-Hotel Sales to ensure qualified leads are entered into CI/TY SFAWeb.
- Leverages MI Leads for Out of Org, Non-Deployed Accounts.
- Presents stakeholder hotel benefits and features based on customer needs.
- Understands and utilizes all business processes written in support of the sales organization.
- Utilizes negotiation skills and creative selling abilities to uncover new business.
- Uses all information systems (e.g., CI/TY SFA Web, MRDW, MarRFP-SAPP, Hoteligence, Account Relationship Management (ARM) to research the deployment and value of the accounts deemed important for stakeholder hotels.
- Understands the overall market (e.g., competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trend



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