Opportunity: Area Sales Manager
HHM Hotels is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Area Sales Manager. This pivotal role
is responsible for maximizing revenue and market share for sales segments across a
group of hotels through new business acquisition and saturation of current account
relationships.
Experience: Minimum of [1 -3] years of experience in hotel sales, with lifestyle or
boutique hotel experience preferred.
Essential Job Functions
Oversee a cluster of hotels and maximize revenue by selling all facets of the properties to
previous, current, and potential clients.
Strategic Sales & Revenue Growth
Target Acquisition: Proactively identify, qualify, and solicit new group and corporate
accounts that align with our portfolio’s brand identity.
Strategy Implementation: Execute tailored sales strategies to hit monthly, quarterly, and
annual revenue targets.
Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of NYC travel patterns, neighborhood trends, and
competitor shifts to position our hotels as the premier choice. Utilize business
intelligence tools to proactively identify opportunities and trends.
Negotiation: Expertly navigate contract negotiations to ensure maximum profitability
while securing long-term partnerships.
Create strategic sales action plans that will address the direct needs of the segments
and the hotel.
Relationship & Account Management
Client Connection: Build and nurture "gold-standard" relationships with travel managers,
event planners, brand key account managers, travel agents, TMCs, and industry
partners.
Engagement: Routinely complete sales engagement activities with new and existing
clients, including site tours, client appointments, sales blitzes, and new business
prospecting calls.
Retention: Conduct regular account reviews and seek consistent feedback to ensure we
are not just meeting, but exceeding, client expectations.
Networking: Act as an ambassador at industry events, trade shows, and local NYC
networking functions.
Team Collaboration
Culture: Contribute to a high-performance, supportive environment where
collaboration is the default setting.
Reporting: Maintain accurate CRM data and provide transparent updates on sales
performance, challenges, and wins during weekly team huddles.
Perform other duties as requested by management
HHM Hotels Benefits and Perks
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble - Own It
HHM, also known as Hersha Hospitality Management, is an industry-leading hotel management, investment and development firm. HHM provides turn-key management, asset management or receivership solutions for 106 hotels in 19 states, including more than 20 full service hotels and 24 independents.
It is no coincidence that Hersha means “happy” in ancient Sanskrit. HHM’s rapid growth, focus on associate development and its commitment to serve guests, our associates and the local communities we work in, can make any hospitality career seeker happy.
The legacy of happiness symbolizes how HHM was built, namely on a strong foundation of core values: honesty, communication, community, personal growth and achievement. These values combined with a passion to serve others and a respect for every associate’s unique and valuable contributions is what makes us so successful. If you share our values and passion, HHM may be the place for you.
As HHM continues to stretch its properties across the country, we know our success is achieved through the collective and individual contributions of all associates. They are the heart and soul of our business and our ultimate goal is to maintain a culture of happiness in which our values are embedded and career development is encouraged.
HALF OF THE GENERAL MANAGERS AT OUR
TOP 20 HOTELS HAVE BEEN PROMOTED
FROM WITHIN HHM.
Personal success is individually defined by each associate. HHM supports an individual’s desire to stretch professionally. We provide opportunities across various hotel brands, locations and job functions. As we grow, you grow.
At HHM, we are proud to employ some of the best in the industry.
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.
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.
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.
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.