District Sales Manager

Do you love meeting people, taking on new challenges, and seeing your hard work pay off? We’re in search of a driven, motivating sales manager to help our team achieve our sales goals. You’ll be responsible for setting our sales strategy and targets, cultivating our sales staff, evaluating their progress, and ensuring we hit our sales goals. Job seekers should be leaders, innovators, hard workers, and team players.Compensation:

$43,517

Responsibilities:

• Counsel your sales team members, evaluate their performance, and offer suggestions for improvement
• Ensure our sales staff achieves their goals by making sales plans for each sales representative, setting individual sales targets, assigning territories, and managing their ongoing training programs
• Create sales reports and present to the team that outline sales efforts including progress and sales volume to better determine future goals
• Set our sales strategies and sales objectives to achieve our sales goals
• Keep the company growing by identifying new sales opportunities, emerging markets, and lead generation programs

• Provide the highest levels of customer service to internal partners and external clients at all times.
• Deliver a successful experience for the planner and attendees to garner both repeat and referral business. 
• Respond in a quick, timely, and professional manner to all internal partners and external customers, and deliver clear and concise communiqués.
• Effectively and efficiently monitor and manage all aspects of the pre-event, event, and post-event details.
• Track, detail, and communicate the particulars of each assigned event and group -- including but not limited to -- room blocks, meeting space, special concessions, group history and other reports, cut-off and other key dates, contract clauses, group resumes, event orders and BEO’s, billing details, and other integral aspects of groups and events.
• Gain knowledge of the hotel’s food and beverage products, pricing, and presentation, and learn about the hotel’s function space, audiovisual, and any other details related to event success.
• Demonstrate excellent time management, self-motivation, and organizational savvy with a keen focus on details.

In addition:

• Foster Business with proactive and reactive sales efforts.
• Provide excellent customer service to clients with speed and efficiency in returning calls and bookings.
• Exude proactive planning, organizational skills, and a keen sense of pricing for the overall efficiency of the department.
• Provide excellent follow-through on details to account and to hotel departments.
• Be the face of the hotel at all industry events with property representation of professionalism and character.
• Meet and exceed all monthly revenue and sales call goals.
• Documentation of all sales activities in Delphi or similar sales system for tracking and history.
• Be a team player at all times to assist as needed in the operation of a successful hotel.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree in business or a similar field
• Strong analytical skills, communication skills, and leadership skills
• Demonstrates a proven track record of success in sales
• 3 years of experience in sales management or in a leadership role in the sales department

About Company

Located in the trendy Strip District neighborhood, our Homewood Suites Pittsburgh Downtown Hilton™ hotel is convenient for all major businesses and corporations. A variety of dining and entertainment options are easily accessible from our hotel, and Historic Strip District, which offers local flavors and crafts. The hotel is only two blocks from Senator John Heinz History Museum, three blocks from David L. Lawrence Convention Center, and close to PPG Paints Arena, Heinz Field, PNC Park, and Duquesne University.