SALARY: COMPETITIVE, BASED ON EXPERIENCEJOB TYPE: PERMANENTHOURS: FULL-TIMETOWN: LONDON

Right on the waterfront and next to the Excel exhibition center, the hotel is only a 12 minute tube ride from Central London.
We are seeking an experienced and driven Director of Sales to lead the sales efforts for our Double Tree by Hilton Excel.
The focus is on acquiring and cultivating business from initially from the ExCel Exhibition Centre and other partners. Then through other sales streams. This role involves close collaboration not only with departments like revenue management, analytics, and reservations but also with key hotel functions, including operations, guest services, groups and events. The Director of Sales ensures that agreed sales strategies are seamlessly integrated into the overall hotel operations, enhancing both revenue and guest satisfaction. The ideal candidate combines technical expertise with a warm, approachable demeanour, working cohesively with the broader company sales team and brand partners.

• Develop and execute sales strategies tailored to the hotel market, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Liaise closely with the revenue management, analytics, and reservations departments to ensure efficient knowledge of systems such as Opera, and Delphi.
• Work with revenue management to use benchmarking tools such as STR, and other analytics tools. Hoteligence and agency 360 to understand market trends and competitor positioning, u adapting sales strategies to optimize revenue and market share.
• Lead proactive and reactive sales efforts across all sales channels, business travel, events, and reservations, utilising CRM system (Monday.com) and Delphi to manage and track business development.
• Collaborate with the marketing and regional/brand teams to implement marketing campaigns.
• Manage budgets and create specific promotions and campaigns in collaboration with departments using revenue tools for financial planning and forecasting.
• Build strong partnerships with Group Agents, TMCs, Consortia to increase property visibility and attract affluent clients.