Company Description
Exciting opportunity to join a progressive team.
Portfolio of six hotels, The Harlow Hotel by Accor and Five Mercure hotels, located in Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, Bedford, and Telford, underwent an extensive refurbishment in 2019.
Collectively the portfolio of 864 bedrooms and 54 meeting rooms, are all positioned with good transport and motorway links, onsite car coach parking facilities, restaurant & bars offering locally inspired home cooked cuisine. Birmingham West, Telford Centre and Nottingham Sherwood all have full Leisure Clubs with Swimming pools. All hotels carry the #ALLSAFE & planet21 accreditations.
Each hotel incorporates locally inspired artwork and design within its décor and even textures encompassing elements of its area’s culture and historic past.
Job Description
The Conference and Events Sales Executive is responsible for proactively driving MICE sales across 6 PROARK hotels. To maintain and increase the quantity of sales, maintain and develop relationships with clients (new & existing).
This will be achieved through the provision of a well organized and responsive booking service, the delivery of the product offer, the development of customer relationships and offering a personalized and tailored event management service.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 year in similar role
- Innovator
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- High Energy, dynamic personality.
- Results-driven.
- Verbal, non verbal numerical and analytical abilities.
- Excellent negotiations and influencing skills.
- Able to drive actions that will add value to incremental spend.
- Team player – to be part of a developing commercial team
Additional Information
Reporting into the Group Director of Sales & Revenue, the Cluster M&E Sales Executive forms part of a new department, responsible for the sales and management of all MICE bookings and enquiries across the 6 PROARK UK Hotels. Working in conjunction with the hotel’s General Managers, Multi-Property Revenue Managers, to exceed annual budgeted revenues. All duties that are carried out should be in accordance with Accor Hotels Standards and legal requirements.
