VERSANTE HOTEL

Versante Hotel Minutes from Vancouver Airport but far from your typical airport hotel, Versante Hotel dazzles with vibrant colours, natural light and innovative design. At Richmond, BC’s only luxury boutique hotel, you’re free to be anyone, indulge your true identity, and revel in one of life’s greatest luxuries: play. Choose from 100 luxurious guestrooms and suites in five bold designs and a variety of sophisticated venues for dining, meeting and socializing, including Bruno restaurant which offers the best of BC, CASK Whisky Vault, and Alaia - 12th floor – Premium Lounge and Luxury Event Space.

Guests enjoy fitness amenities like Life Fitness, Peloton, and Mirror workout equipment, an outdoor heated salt water pool and jacuzzi, along with bikes available to explore at your leisure.

• Ranked among the TOP 12 luxury hotels in W. Canada by Conde Nast Traveler
• TripAdvisor awards- Top 10 luxury hotels in Canada and top 1% hotels across the world

http://www.versantehotel.com

ABOUT THE JOB

Versante Hotel is seeking a motivated and dynamic Senior Sales Manager with strong creativity and a “can do” attitude. This position is accountable for assigned market segments and managing client relationships as they relate to sales, revenue management and banquets. Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to:

YOUR EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS INCLUDE

• Hospitality sales experience preferred.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. * Must be results oriented with a go getter attitude.
• Effectively able to adopt to rapid changing market and sales environment
• Effectively able to make decisions and execute sales contracts * Computer literacy (Opera, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience with Opera an asset.
• Ability to understand and interpret financial data.
• Positive attitude and supportive, team-based approach towards the attainment of the hotel’s goals.
• Ability to travel and work flexible hours and days.
• Luxury Boutique hotel experience would be an asset.
• Richmond/Vancouver hotel sales experience would be prefered

• Achieving revenue results by soliciting and securing business through a proactive, consultative sales approach.
• Prepare and present quotes and proposals in a timely and professional manner to customers.
• Effectively collaborate with other departments especially banquets to capture and service events.
• Attend pre-conference planning meetings, and appropriate venue meetings as necessary to support the customer event experience.
• Thoroughly research and understand customer history and previous experiences, in order to create more personalized customer experiences.
• Maintain a healthy pipeline of leads at all times that ensures achievement of established revenue targets.
• Maintain knowledge of new product/service offerings and emerging technology supporting meetings and events.
• Invite clients to the hotel for entertainment, lunches, tours and site inspections