Task Force - Director of Sales
Opportunity: Director of Sales – Task Force
As a Task Force Director of Sales, you will step into various properties to lead sales teams and provide critical short-term and long-term coverage. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment, quickly adapting to the unique needs of full-service, luxury, select-service, and boutique properties within the HHM Hotels industry-leading branded and independent collections.
Your Focus
- Team Leadership: Interview, select, train, and coach associates to ensure they excel in brand standards while living HHM core values.
- Strategic Planning: Use internal and external data to develop comprehensive plans that capture all business segments.
- Business Intelligence: Understand sales processes to support corporate goals and enhance overall customer value.
- Revenue Growth: Identify customer requirements and craft compelling offers that increase the hotel's revenue share.
- Performance Monitoring: Track sales team objectives and implement corrective actions to stay aligned with the annual marketing plan.
- Goal Achievement: Drive the hotel toward annual revenue targets established in the budget.
- Account Management: Maintain and grow relationships with key accounts to boost customer satisfaction and loyalty.
- Expert Negotiation: Use professional sales techniques to secure the best possible terms for both the customer and the hotel.
- Sales Execution: Articulate the unique benefits of each property to successfully close sales opportunities.
- Marketing Maintenance: Manage a current marketing plan with specific, measurable initiatives for every business segment.
- Professional Mentorship: Model elite selling techniques and commit to the ongoing development of your team and yourself.
- Effective Communication: Develop oral and written presentations that clearly convey recommendations and conclusions.
- Market Presence: Travel locally during assignments to conduct outside calls, promote the property, and analyze the competition.
Your Background and Skills
- Education: Four-year college degree required; advanced coursework in business, marketing, or communications is a plus.
- Experience: Previous hotel sales experience is required; operations experience is preferred.
- Brand Expertise: Familiarity with Marriott and Hilton systems is a significant advantage.
- Marketing Savvy: Proven experience in public relations and community marketing.
- Technical Proficiency: Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Word, Delphi, and access database tools.
HHM Hotels Benefits and Perks
- Medical, Dental and Vision Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Company Match
- Free Basic Life Insurance
- 24/7 access to TELUS Health, a confidential work-life resource.
- Travel Discounts
- Commuter Transit and Commuter Parking Benefits
- Employee Assistance and Wellness Program
- Educational/Professional Development
- Technology Reimbursements
- Referral Bonus Program
Work Environment and Context
- Travel: Extensive travel to hotels throughout the United States is required.
- Schedule: Work schedules vary and will include some holidays and weekends based on project needs.
- Physical Requirements: Ability to sit for extended periods, lift up to 10 pounds, and operate a keyboard.
- Mobility: Moderate travel between hotel properties and client locations is expected.
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble – Own It
À propos de HHM Hotels
An Industry Leader in Hospitality
HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.
MANAGEMENT
For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.
INVESTMENT
HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.
BRAND POSITIONING
Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.
