Sales Manager

The Midland Hotel; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Be Yourself – Be an Inspiration to Your Team – Be Leonardo

As a Sales Manager, you’ll be making all the difference to the business, so we want you to bring your dynamic personality to work with you every day. You’ll be negotiating contracts and closing agreements, and delivering excellence to all of our customers and clients as part of a vibrant team. To help you and your team succeed, you will complete and execute the sales plan, ensuring it is in line with the strategy and the hotel business needs.

You’ll be covering Sales at Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham, getting yourself out there in the cities to develop an in-depth understanding of the local hotel markets to increase revenue and maximise profit.

You will base yourself at Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham, and you will have the opportunity to work from home once a week.

Some of the perks you could enjoy include:

• Fixed bonus of up to 30% of your starting annual salary: based on our financial and your personal performances
• Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of!
• Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
• Meals on duty
• Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
• We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
• The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
• Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression

If you’re our ideal Sales Manager, you will:

• Be yourself!
• Build and maintain strong, lasting client relationships
• Support the conversion of key businesses such as Groups and M&E enquiries
• Manage a portfolio of not only local accounts but national ones too – we want to be the go-to brand in the market!
• Conduct market research campaigns – we’re always on the lookout for opportunities
• Use appropriate business tools and CRM system to better forecast annual budgets and track key account metrics
• Have previous hotel Sales experience and a genuine passion for the Hospitality industry

Why come join us?

We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you’re part of the team, you’re part of the Leonardo community. We have support on tap, so expect top-notch L&D programmes, practical training and clear progression within our vibrant and dynamic team.

Our Story

Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we operate over 270 hotels across the United Kingdom and Europe. We look after over 55 hotels across the UK & Ireland, and being one of the fastest growing hotel groups, we have plans for major expansion over the next few years; there’s never been a more exciting time to come join us!