Company Description
A luxury hospitality brand for modern travellers, Anantara connects guests to genuine places, people and stories through personal experiences and providing heartfelt hospitality in the world’s most exciting destinations. From pristine islands and tropical beaches to cosmopolitan cities, tranquil deserts and lush jungles, Anantara welcomes guests for journeys rich in discovery.
Job Description
You will serve the needs of the business, our guests and our colleagues by leading all sales activities for the hotel, achieving revenue and profit targets, and growing and developing a loyal customer base on behalf of the hotel.
The scope of responsibility includes: approaching the overall sales leadership activities from a strategic perspective, ensuring the sales department fully understands the relative importance and priority of its current account base, and manages, segments and prioritises its efforts accordingly, ensuring that the department is focused on assertively establishing new client contacts and developing detailed information on the potential revenues from these accounts, managing the daily sales activities of the people in the team, set the financial and non-financial objectives for each member of the team and work with them to ensure these objectives are met, ensuring that all new team members are properly oriented in the strategy and positioning of the brand, and able to articulate this positioning in the marketplace, overseeing general department operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree equivalent degree in Marketing, Business or Commerce MBA
- International strategic sales and marketing experience
- Previous experience as Director of Sales & Marketing
- Background in a luxurious hotel brand with proven record of achievement
- Strong commercial/business acumen
- Ability to analyze, interpret and extract trends from data
- Effectively communicates with all levels
- A strong leader, who can articulate a vision and translate it to reality