Imagine yourself at the luxurious JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa and find your future career with us! We are looking to add a seasoned Director of Sales to our dynamic and talented team of friendly, service-oriented Associates. Apply today for this outstanding employment opportunity, and prepare to excel, grow and have fun at work!
Role: Functions as the leader of the property’s small group and social sales team's sales efforts reporting to Vice President of Sales. Manages the property's reactive and proactive sales efforts. Shares responsibility for achieving revenue goals, guest and associate satisfaction. Implements the brand’s service strategy and applicable brand initiatives in all aspects of the sales process. Provides day-to-day leadership oversight to the on-property and remote sales associates with a focus on building long-term, luxury customer relationships that enable achievement of the property’s sales objectives. Maintains ultimate accountability for verifying that the team maximizes revenue opportunities by up-selling and accurately forecasting revenues (e.g., catering and group rooms) for all events. Adheres to all Company, safety and departmental policies and procedures. Fosters teamwork and provides excellent guest service. Anticipates guest needs to exceed guest expectations. Builds brand loyalty by living the JW Marriott Core Values.
Skills/Qualifications

• Demonstrated skills supervising a luxury hotel group sales team, preferably with a minimum of 5-7 years' experience
• Excellent selling skills and understanding of sales processes
• Strong customer and relationship management skills
• Knowledge and interpretation of Sales reports and forecasting revenues
• Possesses excellent telephone sales skills
• Knowledge of contractual agreements and legal implications
• Experience implementation of successful Sales strategies
• Effective decision-making skills
• Good negotiation skills
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of overall hotel operations as they affect departments
• Ability to use standard software applications and hotel systems including CI/TY

Required Certificate/License

• 2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 4 years' experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area required or
• 4-year bachelor's degree in business administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 2 years' experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area preferred.
• Valid Nevada Driver’s License

MAJOR JOB DUTIES: Duties include, but are not limited, to the following:
Managing Sales Activities

• Functions as the leader of the property’s small group (up to 99 on peak) and social sales teams' effort for property.
• Develops group and social business.
• Recommends booking goals for sales team members.
• Develops and manages sales revenue and operation budgets and provides forecasting reports.
• Works with management team to create and implement a group and social sales/marketing plan addressing revenue, customers and market.
• Assists with selling, implementation and follow-through of small group and social sales promotions.
• Executes and supports Marriott’s Customer Service Standards and hotel’s Brand Standards.
• Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked (e.g., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence).
• Participates in and practices daily service basics of the brand (e.g.,, Marriott Hotels and Resorts (MHR) Spirit to Serve Daily Basics, Renaissance Hotels and Resorts (RHR) Savvy Service Basics, Courtyard, SpringHill Suites, Fairfield Inn Basics of the Day, Residence Inn Daily Huddle, or TownePlace Suites Morning Meeting).
• Coordinates and deploys group sales resources on-property to monitor the pull-through and sustainment of sales strategies and selling solutions.
• Verifies that the property implements a seamless turnover from sales to operations and back to sales while consistently delivering high level of service.
• Manages the property's reactive and proactive group sales efforts.
• Monitors the effective resolution of guest issues that arise as a result of the sales process by creating mechanisms to channel issues to property leadership and/or other appropriate stakeholders.
• Maintains successful performance by increasing revenues, controlling expenses and providing a return on investment for the owner and Marriott International.
• Implements the brand’s service strategy and applicable brand initiatives in all aspects of the sales process.
• Maintains ultimate accountability for verifying that the team maximizes group revenue opportunities by up-selling and accurately forecasting revenues (e.g., catering and group rooms) for all events.
• Performs other duties, as assigned, to meet business needs.

Building Successful Relationships

• Works collaboratively with off-property sales channels (e.g., Group Sales with the Sales Office, Area Sales, Enterprise Sales Team (EST)) to verify the property needs are being achieved and the sales efforts are complementary, not duplicative.
• Interacts effectively with guests/clients, sales and kitchen, vendors, competitors, local community, catering associations and other hotel departments in order to ,maintain guest satisfaction.
• Executes exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and monitoring their satisfaction before and during their program/event.
• Serves the customer by understanding their needs and recommending the appropriate features and services that best meet their needs and exceed their expectations, while building a relationship and loyalty to Marriott.
• Gains understanding of the hotel’s primary target customer and service expectations; serves the customer by understanding their business, business issues and concerns, to offer better business solution both prior to, and during the program/event.
• Develops a close working relationship with operations to execute strategies at the hotel level.

Leadership

• Manages and directs the on-property group sales effort to achieve hotel revenue goals by proactively targeting current and new high value accounts in the market and implementing effective sales deployment strategies to grow market share.
• Works with the Vice President of Sales to establish understanding of sales strategy and effective implementation of this strategy for the hotel.
• Partners with Human Resources to attract, develop and retain the right people in order to support the strategic priorities of the market.
• Creates effective structures, processes, jobs and performance management systems are in place.
• Sets goals and expectations for direct reports using the Leadership Performance Process (LPP), align performance and rewards, addresses performance issues and holds staff accountable for successful results.
• Forecasts talent needs and manages talent acquisition strategy with Human Resources (HR) to minimize lost time due to turnover.
• Keeps an active list of the competition’s best sales people and executes a recruitment and acquisition plan with HR.
• Supports tools and training resources to educate sales associates on winning catering solutions.
• Champions leadership development and workforce planning priorities by assessing, selecting, retaining and developing diverse, high-caliber talent that can lead the organization today and strengthen the leadership bench for the future; continues to upgrade the sales & marketing talent; works with HR to anticipate future talent needs based on business growth plans.
• Identifies, trains and mentors group sales associates; utilizes all available on the job training tools for associates.
• Transfers functional knowledge and develops group sales skills of other discipline managers.
• Shares responsibility for achieving group revenue goals, guest and associate satisfaction.
• Provides day-to-day leadership oversight to the on-property group sales associates with a focus on building long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of the property’s sales objectives

Physical, Environmental & Other RequirementsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an Associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work is performed in an office environment and in other locations throughout the property, including outside. Must be tolerant to varying conditions of noise level, temperature, illumination and air quality. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. When on the casino floor, the noise level increases to loud. A casino environment typically allows smoking.

• Interacts with management, applicants, fellow Associates and/or guests.
• Ability to verbally communicate effectively with guests and coworkers
• Requires prolonged standing, walking and mobility.
• Requires bending and reaching.
• Requires transporting, pushing, pulling, and maneuvering items weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Requires lifting items weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Requires eye/hand coordination
• Ability to and comply with Policies and Procedures, Job Description, daily memorandums, chemical labels (SDS) and other instructions.
• Exposure to cleaning chemicals and always requires using personal protective equipment (PPE)

The JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa offers world-class luxury just 20 minutes northwest of the famous Las Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas resort is accessible to Las Vegas Speedway, TPC Las Vegas and a number of other golf courses. The JW Marriott features 548 well-appointed guest rooms and suites set amid 54 acres of lush gardens. Voted as one of the Top 5 Las Vegas Resorts by readers of Condé Nast Traveler, and recognized as a Top-Performing Business on TripAdvisor ranked in the top 10% worldwide for traveler feedback, the Las Vegas resort also includes a full-service spa, state-of-the-art fitness center, 33 meetings rooms with 100,000 square feet of flexible space, more than 9 restaurants and the on-site Rampart Casino.
Enjoy Exclusive Employee Perks

• Heath, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Free meals
• 401k Match
• Marriott brand worldwide travel discounts and benefits.