Graduate Hotels®, is seeking a Sales Managerto join Graduate Eugeneand its wonderful team of hospitality enthusiasts.
Graduate Hotels creates authentic, playful spaces that connect a community’s travelers, students, and locals. Through thoughtfully curated design, creative F&B and community-focused events, we create hotels worthy of their hometown.
We are a diverse team of experience makers and storytellers. As a Graduate Hotels team member, you are the local insider shaping guest experiences. Our goal is to make every guest feel like a local even if it's their first time in town. In order to help you deliver on that goal, we encourage our team members to embody the same mindset as our guests through Graduate experiences and encouraged community exploration.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Drive customer loyalty in order to grow share of the account by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience
Manage business travel accounts to maximize business potential
Negotiate group business, guest room rates, meeting room rental, and hotel services within assigned markets that meets or exceeds hotel revenue goals
Ensure all pertinent aspects of solicitation, closing, and customer communications are complete and documented maintain existing accounts with active trace/follow up system
Ensure accurate and complete use of the sales system per SOP including recording all bookings and lost business
Identifies and solicits new accounts from telemarketing, appointments, site tours, cold calls, and inquiries via email, phone, and in person interactions
Develops, maintains, and prospects a Target List of accounts and communicates updates to DOS
Details BEOs with client for groups with meeting space and distributes with appropriate staff.
Conduct pre- and post-conference meetings when it is agreeable with the client
Attends property specific receptions to generate leads and interact with customers
Organize and execute local area blitzes
Implement special promotions relating to sales segment
Establishes relationships with local businesses and organizations and is an active member in local industry associations
Builds relationships with competitors in like roles to keep apprised of trends in the market and industry, and supply changes
Consistently meet or exceed sales goals including predetermined revenue and sales activity
Other duties as assigned
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
High School Diploma/GED. Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Prior sales experience preferred
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Strong analytical skills relative to impact on hotel revenues
Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
Strong understanding of revenue management principles
Ability to use reservation and revenue management systems to develop pricing and sales recommendations
Experience with Delphi.fdc preferred
About Graduate Hotels®
Graduate Hotels is a hand-crafted collection of hotels that reside in dynamic university-anchored towns across the country. Each hotel pays homage to the heritage of its unique town through cultural nods to the local community. Launched in 2014, there are currently 28 hotels across the U.S. and an additional seven hotels set to open by the end of 2021. Graduate Hotels is owned by Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners, a vertically integrated real estate developer, owner and operator. For more information on Graduate Hotels, please visit www.graduatehotels.com.
*Graduate Hotels is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
269 Room Hotel
Our hotel rooms are ready for a night like you’ve never had before, where little moments of surprise and discovery will meet you down every corridor and around each corner, including Malin + Goetz amenities and complimentary wi-fi. Be prepared to be inspired.
Prominently located on 6th Avenue, Graduate Eugene is next door to the Hult Center and just a hop from the University of Oregon campus. Gather Ducks for a post-game bite or local brew at Poindexter Coffee, our lobby-level café.
Located in the heart of downtown and close to the UO campus, our hotel is the ideal venue for your next celebration. With 30,000 square feet of flexible event space, we offer a variety of distinct settings to host groups of up to 1,800 guests.
