Cluster Sales Manager
Key Skills for This Role
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Sales and account management
- Develop and execute cluster sales strategies to achieve revenue targets across corporate, government, leisure, MICE, wholesale, and other segments.
- Drive room nights, ADR, occupancy, and revenue; promote assigned hotels and allocate business based on availability, rates, and market demand.
- Monitor market trends, competitors, and customer needs; conduct sales calls, client visits, site inspections, presentations, and networking.
- Maintain relationships with corporate accounts, travel agencies, government accounts, and strategic partners; grow existing account production.
- Conduct account reviews, maintain account records, negotiate contracts and rates within commercial guidelines, and deliver account commitments.
Business development and cluster coordination
- Prospect for accounts, develop a business pipeline, identify market segments, and participate in sales blitzes, trade shows, exhibitions, roadshows, and networking events.
- Develop local and regional partnerships and maintain knowledge of the local market, industries, companies, projects, and business developments.
- Coordinate with Sales, Revenue, Reservations, Marketing, and Operations across properties; share leads and support joint sales initiatives.
- Work with Revenue Management on demand, segmentation, pricing, and business mix; monitor room nights, ADR, revenue, and commercial KPIs.
- Prepare forecasts, business plans, and regular reports; identify performance gaps and implement corrective sales actions.
- Maintain customer engagement, coordinate resolution of concerns, gather client feedback, and identify ways to improve satisfaction and retention.
- Maintain approved CRM and sales-system records, account databases, pipelines, call plans, and action plans; comply with company policies and brand standards.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management, Business Administration, Sales & Marketing, or a related field.
- Minimum 3–5 years of relevant hotel sales experience.
- Supervisory or managerial experience is preferred.
- Previous experience handling corporate accounts and key accounts.
Performance measures
Measures include cluster room revenue, corporate and key-account production, room nights, ADR, new-account acquisition, and account retention and growth.
Other measures include sales calls and client visits, MICE and group conversion, pipeline value and conversion, market share or RGI, customer satisfaction, and monthly and annual sales targets.
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