Are you a visionary sales leader with a passion for driving revenue and crafting unforgettable brand experiences? Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi is looking for a dynamic Director of Sales & Marketing to steer our commercial success in Egypt’s thriving hospitality market!
If you thrive on strategic growth, innovative marketing, and building high-performing teams, this is your chance to shine at one of the most trusted names in hospitality.
A little taste of your day-to-day:
Every day is different, but you’ll mostly be:
- Managing daily sales activities and coaching your team to deliver to their full potential.
- Hitting all personal and team sales goals to help us maximise profitability.
- Creating and implementing sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage and banquet sales.
- Producing and reviewing monthly reports to monitor performance.
- Leading marketing efforts to up-sell guests on hotel services, offerings, and amenities.
- Achieve budgeted revenues and personal/team sales goals and maximize profitability.
- Participate in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, the hotel marketing plan and business plan, and financial plans.
- Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage and banquet sales.
- Review monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyze current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan.
- Create and develop special events and sales blitzes to showcase the hotel to potential clients.
- Attend trade shows and major market events locally and nationally to promote new business and increase sales and marketing opportunities for the hotel.
- Identify operational problems that reduce the effectiveness of marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with appropriate department on solutions.
- Develop awareness and reputation of the hotel and the brand in the local community; may serve as the hotel representative for media-related inquiries.
- Work closely with key business leaders, officials, and representatives of local community groups within the city to ensure constant high-profile exposure for the hotel.
- Effectively communicate and market aspects of the hotel that are sustainable or “green” and use information to gain new business opportunities.
- Work with advertising agencies, consulting firms, and vendors to maximize advertising investments and ensure ads represent brand identity.