Senior Sales Manager

Category:
Sales and Marketing
Position Type:
Full Time Position

Overview

As we prepare to unveil the transformation from Newport Beachside Hotel to the newly renovated Sunny Hotel, we are seeking an ambitious and results-driven Senior Sales Manager to lead our efforts in attracting corporate and transient business travelers. The Senior Sales Manager will play a pivotal role in promoting these changes, securing corporate accounts, and establishing partnerships to drive hotel revenue.

Located in the heart of Sunny Isles Beach, The Sunny is poised to redefine the lifestyle, beach getaway experience in Miami. The resort will feature 340 well-appointed guest rooms and suites, six dining outlets, curated art collection, a state-of-the-art fitness center and spa/salon, oceanfront pool with tiki bar and fire pits, beach club, 22,000 square feet of event space, including an oceanfront terrace.

Responsibilities

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Highlight the hotel's extensive renovations in sales efforts, emphasizing upgraded rooms, refreshed meeting spaces, and enhanced amenities to attract individual business travelers and local accounts.
  • Proactively seek out new business opportunities within the corporate and transient segments.
  • Build relationships with key decision-makers at local businesses, travel agencies, and corporate travel programs to generate new leads.
  • Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with existing accounts, while continuously identifying opportunities for upselling the newly enhanced offerings.
  • Represent The Sunny Hotel at industry events, local business functions, and travel industry conferences. Leverage the hotel's new design and services as key selling points during presentations and client meetings.
  • Negotiate contracts and rates for individual and corporate travelers, ensuring the hotel's profitability while meeting client needs.
  • Partner with the Revenue Management and Marketing teams to align sales strategies with room rates, occupancy goals, and marketing campaigns that showcase the hotel's renovations.
  • Provide regular updates on sales progress, market trends, and client feedback. Track performance against sales targets and adjust strategies as needed.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For:

  • At least five (5) years or more of progressive hotel sales experience, with a proven track record in securing business from corporate and transient markets.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and networking skills, with an ability to create long-lasting relationships and generate revenue.
  • Familiarity with the local market and key corporate accounts in the Sunny Isles Beach or Miami areas is preferred.
  • Experience promoting newly renovated or repositioned hotels is a plus.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, hospitality, or related field is preferred, but not required. Relevant experience may substitute for degree.

Benefits

Davidson Hospitality Group is an award-winning, full-service hospitality management company overseeing hotels, restaurants, dining and entertainment venues across the US.   A trusted partner and preferred operator for Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Marriott, and Margaritaville, Davidson offers a unique entrepreneurial management style and owners’ mentality that provides the individualized personal service of a small company, enhanced by the breadth and depth of skill and experience of a larger company. In keeping with the company’s heritage of delivering value, Davidson is comprised of four highly specialized operating verticals: Davidson Hotels, Pivot, Davidson Resorts and Davidson Restaurant Group.

In keeping with the company’s heritage of delivering value to its owners and team members, Davidson offers a rich benefit program with a variety of benefits designed to enrich the lives and well-being of our team members and their families.

  • Three Tiers of Medical Coverage
  • Dental & Vision Coverage
  • 24/7 Teledoc service
  • Free Maintenance Medications
  • Pet Insurance
  • Hotel Discounts
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid Time Off (vacation, sick, bereavement, and Holidays).
  • 401K Match

Working at Davidson is like nowhere else. It’s less of a job, more of a calling. It’s part career, part revolution. Because whatever you do here, you play a part in helping redefine the way quality hospitality is delivered to our guests, our clients, our partners, and each other.

EOE AA- Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

Davidson Hospitality is a drug free workplace.  Pre-employment drug test and background check required.  We participate in E-Verify.

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