Do you see yourself as a Sales Executive for Holiday Inn & Suites® Dubai Festival City?
Travel is a journey. At Holiday Inn & Suites®, we make guests smile.
Starting with a warm, inviting welcome for all guests, whether traveling on business or for fun, enjoying a quick night, or relaxing for the week. We thrive on making our guests stays brighter, helping them create memories that will last a lifetime. Irresistible smiles are our specialty. We should know, we’ve been on our journey since 1952. So if you can help us spread the joy of travel to all, we’d love to give you a warm welcome to the Holiday Inn & Suites® family.
The InterContinental Hotels Group® properties in Dubai Festival City consist of four hotel brands. These include the luxury brand InterContinental, the superior upscale Crowne Plaza, the lavish long-stay InterContinental Residence Suites and the vibrant mid-scale Holiday Inn & Suites. In addition to over 1000+ bedrooms, the four properties boast a selection of high quality restaurants and bars, an impressive 3,800 square meter Event Centre across two levels, the 5,000 square meters Festival Arena by InterContinental, the luxurious Spa InterContinental, state-of-the-art gymnasium and swimming pool facilities. We are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming and full of life to people to join over 900 colleagues who are always finding ways to make every guests experience an enjoyable one. We value the passion and enthusiasm of our colleagues, and encourage you to share your passion when you work with us.
A little taste of your day-to-day
- Drive Total Revenue (short- & long-term Room, and sell to new, existing, and prospective customers considering goals set forth in the sales strategy, negotiating optimum rate for the benefit of the business.
- Maintain and develop the relationship with the in-house guests, and track all extensions required.
- Make sure all long terms guests have contract in place as per the Internal policies of the Hotel.
- Follow-up on invoices, payment and overall billing process as per the internal policies of the Hotel.
- Keep track of Market pricing of hotel apartments and residential apartments
- To utilize IHG sales tools in an appropriate manner to ease work processes and make the same more efficient and transparent - IBP, Delphi, I-RFP, IHG Merlin, IHG Sales Source, SSP and IHG Business Club.
- Consistently communicate “within” to share market intelligence, provide feedback, and ensure customer awareness with the Hotels and to ensure planning and coordination of sales.
What we need from you
- Strong communication and administrative skills
- Organized and demonstrated good teamwork
- Fluency in the English language - extra language skills would be great, but not essential
- Computer literacy (Microsoft applications, Opera, Delphi)
- Proactive approach
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Minimum of 1 year experience in the service industry and Sales & Marketing environment
What you can expect from us
We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including a uniform, great room discount and superb training.
Join us and you’ll become part of the family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.
IHG is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans.
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