Sales & Marketing Manager at JohnWood Hotel by Bolton

JohnWood Hotel (by Bolton) is a new five-star luxury hotel situated in the heart of Abuja, Nigeria. At JohnWood, we are on a mission to create remarkable experiences for our guests by offering first-class hospitality services blended with elegance.

We strive to offer the highest standard of service and provide our staff with an engaging environment that inspires creativity and freedom to deliver services beyond the expectations of our guests and at the same attain job satisfaction.

We seek extraordinary team players and staffers who are hungry to build exceptional careers in the hospitality industry to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales & Marketing Manager

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The role of the Sales & Marketing Manager is to drive the hotel revenue by effectively managing the sales process, marketing and selling the hotel within the local and national marketplace.
• The Sales Manager is responsible for increasing the profitability of the existing accounts, secure new business and work across all market segments to ensure all activities undertaken to increase the hotel profit are in line with the business plan.

Major Responsibilities

• To oversee the entire sales department and its operations
• To respond pro-actively towards the hotel business requirements
• To research new sales leads and contacts
• To actively update the team on competition performance
• To analyse and act on relevant information provided by internal and external sources that may have a direct impact on the revenue goals.
• To ensure effective and professional communication between Sales department and Operational departments according to our standards.
• To ensure the Sales plan activities calendar is followed and update Management on results
• To be responsible for the preparation of statistical performance and forecast on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis and to assist in the preparation for the Sales & Marketing department
• To conduct any other reasonable duty as directed by the management.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in a related discipline.
• Minimum Experience: 5 years in a similar role in the hospitality industry

Job Specification:

• Integrity and Loyalty
• Oral and written communication
• Customer service orientation
• Sales abilities
• Planning and organising skills
• Excellence driven and Result-oriented
• Individual leadership
• Analytical skills
• Development of subordinates
• To be able to take initiative and make decisions
• Computer literate
• Display positive energy and enthusiasm.

Application Closing Date
28th August, 2021.