Protea Hotel Vacancies: Business Development Manager

Protea Hotel Kuramo Waters is a part of Africa’s largest and leading hotel group, it is a 60-bedroom hotel that caters for every travellers’ needs, whether for business or leisure. Protea Hotel is recruiting for Business Development Manager.

JOB TITLE: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Job Position Summary:
•    Generate business for Hotel
•    Revenue generation
•    Build strong strategic relationship with corporate clients
•    Identify, develops and maintain sales objectives, sales plans, and programs in accordance with the hotel’s mission statement.
•    Outside sales calls are a priority in this position.

Tasks and Competencies:
•    Maintain high visibility in the Corporate and hospitality communities as appropriate.
•    Maintain efficient sales office procedures and insures the maintenance of accurate and updated account files and follow-up procedures.
•    Make face-to- face sales calls.
•    Maintain all sales systems, such as sales records and reports, conference calendar, traces of history and potentials, logs of groups not previously accommodated and mailing lists.
•    Design new programs and sales campaigns, to develop additional sales from the various market niches.
•    Ensure the prompt and systematic servicing of all business accounts (i.e., tracing, booking, contracting, communicating with hotel departments, and following up with group for feedback and future bookings).
•    Follow the Sales and Marketing plans
•    Must be service oriented to potential guests

Skills:
•    Closing Skills
•    Motivation for Sales
•    Prospecting Skills
•    Sales Planning
•    Selling to Customer Needs
•    Territory Management
•    Market Knowledge
•    Presentation Skills
•    Energy Level
•    Meeting Sales Goals
•    Professionalism

Qualification:
Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Marketing, Business Administration, Economics or other relevant discipline.
Minimum of 5 years experience in a top-tier corporate organisation.
Proven track record in achieving set organizational targets

Job Remuneration:
Very attractive negotiable well-enhanced pay
Performance bonus
Official car

How to Apply:
Qualified Candidates should e-mail updated resumes to [email protected]

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.