About the Role
Drive group revenue by cultivating relationships within niche markets, proactively sourcing and securing group business, tailoring proposals to client needs, and coordinating with hotel teams to ensure successful events. This role reports to the Director of Sales.
Responsibilities
- Proactively prospecting for new business opportunities
- Managing and responding to incoming RFPs and inquiries
- Negotiating and executing group contracts
- Ensuring clear communication of client expectations with the hotel operations team
- Working closely with the Director of Sales to meet revenue goals and support the overall sales strategy
Requirements
- Proven success in hotel or hospitality sales, ideally with group sales experience
- Strong hunter mindset with track record of generating new business
- Confidence in outbound prospecting, including cold calling and outreach
- Strong consultative selling, negotiation, and closing skills
- Excellent organization, pipeline management, and forecasting abilities
- Clear, confident communication skill and a relationship-driven approach
- Self-motivated and the ability to perform in an independent, goal-driven environment
- Eligible to work in the United States
- Sufficient education and/or literacy needed to identify and read product labels and to communicate with guests about job-related needs
- The ability to see, hear, talk, sit, stand, handle objects, bend, kneel, stoop, and lift items as needed for the position with or without reasonable accommodations
- Ability to embrace HVMG’s Culture of Excellence by showing a warm smile, friendly personality, and positive attitude
Skills
- Group sales
- Outbound prospecting
- Cold calling
- Consultative selling
- Negotiation
- Closing skills
- Organization
- Pipeline management
- Forecasting
- Communication
- Relationship-driven approach
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Previous experience in a similar or related sales role
- Prior hotel experience strongly preferred
Education Level
- College degree
- Special certifications
Salary/Compensations
- $50-60K/yr
Benefits
- Quarterly Bonus potential
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Full Healthcare Benefits (including medical, dental, and vision coverage)
- 401k Retirement Plan with a guaranteed 4% match and no vesting
- Hotel and Food and Beverage Discounts and Perks
- Up to 40% earned wages paid BEFORE payday with PayActive
About the Company
- Our Be Excellent culture is more than just words on a website -- we live and breathe it.
- We believe that the hotel business is one of the few industries in which successful career paths can start anywhere on the org chart.
- You control your destiny, and, if our executives are any indication, today's dishwasher can be tomorrow's Senior Vice President.
Equal Opportunity
- We provide equal opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or disability.
- HVMG participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
