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Why Join Apex Hotels ?
You will receive a warm welcome into the Apex family on joining us as a Group Corporate Sales Manager. We genuinely care about our guests and each other and we show this through our family values of Trust, Passion, Friendliness and Teamwork. It is these values that support you to be yourself here at Apex Hotels. By bringing your own personality, passion, and ideas to the role, you will add a new dynamic to our innovative and supportive Sales Team. We believe it is our personality, style and friendliness that makes Apex Hotels.
Role Overview:
An exciting opportunity has been created to join our dynamic and driven Sales Division, in the role of Group Corporate Sales Manager.
The role involves; driving total account management and 360 sales from key group corporate clients, associations, and agents with predominantly group corporate focus; including local Universities, Sporting Club and agents, Member organisation, whilst developing bonds with key local partners and stake holders.
This is a proactive role with your time being appropriately split in managing the existing client base, whilst seeking out new clients and cultivating new business opportunities, for your specific region whilst also seeking the opportunity to cross sell all Apex venues.
Main Responsibilities:
Total account management of key group corporate clients and partners, seeking out new business opportunities for the wider Apex portfolio of hotels to maximise profit
Maintain an excellent knowledge of all accounts, build relationships with key customers and drive and maximise additional opportunities within those accounts to increase market share and maximise profit across all ancillary revenue streams and opportunities within food and beverage and meetings and events
Generate revenue growth using a consultative selling approach to maintain and expand relationships with the large national and multi-regional accounts, driving negotiation on value vs. price
Possess and continually develop a full understanding of the local corporate marketplace/key drivers, local contacts, analyse and report on market information
Work with the Corporate Sales Director to identify new markets opportunities for Apex and develop bespoked offerings for current and potential clients.
To research, identify and establish new business sales contacts, develop relationships and distribution opportunities
Sales lead generation, research and conversion for all market segments together with competitor intelligence reporting
Creates and delivers strong customer presentations to demonstrate the Apex value proposition and benefits it provides to our corporate customers
Development of strong relationship with Group Corporate Travel Managers / Procurement teams
Creation and fulfilment of Account Development plans for key accounts
Plan and execute sales activity including research, telesales, site/hotel show rounds, entertaining and client road shows
Maintaining up-to-date activity reports advising of new business and ongoing pipeline enquiries
Analyse the group corporate and M&E, pick up & pace on a monthly basis, ensuring action is taken where necessary ensuring action is taken where necessary
Contribution to monthly and annual business review reports, as requested by Corporate Sales Director
Ownership of assigned Corporate Sales Budget and fulfilment of respective sales activity plan
Attend relevant and appropriate networking events and ensure follow up is done post event
Efficient use of property management system or other systems and tools, to manage accounts and activities
Assist and support with ad hoc projects as required by the Corporate Sales Director
About you:
We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have:
Be a constant and curious learner and demonstrate consideration for the needs of others alongside the needs of the business;
Be an effective communicator who influences through a range of media: face-to-face, e-mail, virtual, phone and social media platforms
Act with integrity and demonstrate organisational values in the way you interact with others
Have personal resilience to manage competing priorities and take a flexible approach towards your role
Be confident in delivering and facilitating engaging learning activities;
Have a collaborative and win-win approach
Regular regional travel across all geographical areas of the portfolio will be required
A competent user of full Microsoft Office applications including Excel, word and database management
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Cluster or multi property Sales Management experience
You will work with great people, enjoy your time at work, develop new friendships, networks, and skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:
30 days holiday
Training and development from day one
Employee events and celebrations
Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools
Healthy meals to enjoy while you’re working.
Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
£200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……
Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform “Treat Yourself Here”, unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes
Long service recognition
Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
50% discount in our restaurants
Cycle to Work Scheme
Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
Spa treatments and product discounts
Critical Illness & Life Assurance cover
We encourage you to bring your true self to work. We’ll provide great training and development opportunities, allowing you to flourish in a fulfilling career, reaching your dreams and aspirations. Our family can never be too big, there’s a place here for you. We have one ask – that you bring your personality, ideas, and spark.
If you are interested please click and Apply.We look forward to hearing from you.
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Apex Hotels
Our vision of welcoming the culture vultures and wanderlusts of the world began in 1996 when we opened our first hotel in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket. Now, over two decades later, we’ve got eight city centre hotels across the UK, two rural properties in Scotland, and one in England. We like to think of our hotels a bit like you, our guests, members of the family each with their own personality, style, and character.