Business Development Executive at Blu Atlantic Hotel

Blu Atlantic Hotel is a 44 rooms 4-star luxury hotel in Lekki phase 1, Lagos. It offers a unique luxury guest experience and fine dining.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Development Executive

Location: Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities

• Generate new business to drive sales and profitably to meet budgetary targets. Confidently and competently manage all steps of the Sales Funnel Process.
• Proactively seek and identify sales to ensure we maximise all opportunities for new business growth.
• Develop, in conjunction with the sales and marketing manager, a business growth strategy for the Hotel.
• Compile an activity plan to target potential new customers from identified prospects and create their own prospect database.
• Analyse and understand your local market and sector including competitor strengths and weaknesses, demographic trends and corporate activity. Tailor your sales plans to make the most of any opportunities.
• Carry out an agreed number of sales calls per calendar month split between relevant market segments including site visits, presentations and reviews.
• Work with Operations teams to seek and exploit opportunities to cross-sell and expand our services within existing contracts.
• Carry out client entertaining, events, activity to nurture and build on existing and future business relationships.
• Build and maintain relationships with key target customers and networks.
• Work with Hotel preferred channels to maximise sales and ensure all contracted rates or displayed through this channel.
• Represent the Company at appointments, presentations and trade shows both nationally and internationally.
• Deliver monthly revenue and activity reports.
• Update and maintain client and prospect database, conforming to company requirements.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications with at least 2 years relevant work experience.

Application Closing Date
30th October, 2021.