MICE Sales Manager
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MICE Sales Manager

About the job

As Sales Manager you are responsible for optimizing sales of the hotel according to the Standards of Operating. You realize this by pro-actively connecting with potential customers and relationship management of existing accounts.

Your day-to-day

Financial returns

• Collection of data about possible target groups in the region, by consulting regional/local news media, company registers etc., by setting up presentation stands at fairs and company contact days.
• Compose tenders, confirm agreed arrangements.
• Continue to actively orient on sales opportunities of the hotel in the region.
• Inform actively about what is hot and happening in the market.
• Collect and keep up with the information of services/ facilities- and goods suppliers in the region aimed at compiling lasting attractive packages.
• Stay up to date about the competing hotels.
• Plan visits with existing/ potential clients on a regular basis, to build trust and win a good productivity.
• Be up to date about all marketing programs
• Educating and informing contacts about facilities, amenities, features, prices, and rates based on the presentation folder and price information.
• Identification of needs and considerations of contacts and translate them into a suitable offer.

People

• Informing executive departments about appointments and details
• Solving problems and dealing with complaints in collaboration with executive departments and initially on / after completion
• Maintain close collaboration with the Director of Sales & Marketing and the F & B Manager to exchange information and thus to classify Sales activities.
• Attend Sales meetings
• Keep up track with the client database and, together with the account and in consultation with the Director of Sales & Marketing, periodically evaluate contracts.

Guest experience

• Detect potential clients; get in touch, and focusing on scheduling an appointment.
• Informing and educating contacts about facilities, amenities, possibilities and prices, based on presentation folder and price information.
• Arranging a guided visit in the hotel, guide contacts.
• Identify wishes and considerations of contacts for the purpose of a tender.
• Capturing contacts, visits and visit results.
• Keep track of the relationship-file and possibly revise contracts.
• Renew contracts periodically and in response to identified messages.
• Be up-to-date about the follow-up of tenders.
• Deal with exploratory applications in collaboration with Crowne Meeting Director.
• Identification of needs, make suggestions and give ideas about the composition, within the sphere of application purpose and budgetary possibilities.
• Make appointments and negotiate with companies.

Responsible business

• Be up to date and comply the fire-life safety procedures and standards of your department
• Work according to the green engage standards.
  • We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training. Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve.
  • Department: Sales Sales & Marketing

About you

• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Hotel Management/Business Administration.
• Preferably minimum 2 year experience within a Sales Department or experience with Sales activities
• Must speak fluent English and either Dutch or French. Other languages are an asset!
• Great communication skills
• Well-groomed appearance
• Result oriented and driven
  • Languages required: English and Dutch.

The company

The contemporary Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport is located a stone’s throw away from Belgium National Airport and next to the Brussels Ring, which connects to all major capitals in the Benelux.

The hotel is part of “The Corporate Village” which consists of 76,000 m2 office space and is home to many national and international companies.
All 315 guest rooms, including a range of suites and a Club Floor, are designed using the latest trends and are the perfect haven of peace.

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MICE Sales Manager

Brussels, Belgium

Full-time, Indefinite

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