Sales Executive (Corporate and Government) at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts

What’s in it for you:

• Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide
• Learning programs through our Academies
• Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world!
• Ability to make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, like Planet 21

What you will be doing:

• Identify prospects for sales deals within targeted markets of the assigned area /segment and also prepare and conduct sales presentations in co ordination with the Sales Manager.
• Professionally conduct routine telemarketing activities to identify new accounts
• Submit monthly and weekly sales plan and market analysis (monthly) as well as daily sales/activity reports.
• Conduct regular Market Surveys and Competitor Research and contribute to increase the business volume.
• Contact Executives of organization to explain services and facilities offered by hotel and to solicit business.
• Establish an efficient Trade File to ensure that all business booked is properly tracked
• Prepare annual sales goals, develop working plans to carry out goals, compare actual achievements against goal,  periodically take necessary corrective action

Your experience and skills include:

• Bachelors degree and/or Hotel Management degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years experience in 5 star hotel sales. Additional experience in the hospitality industry an asset. 
• Good understanding of luxury market
• Possess or attain affiliation with leading industry Association within three years of hire/taking position
• Ability to travel on regular basis and work flexible hours and days.
• Knowledge of Opera, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook.

Your team and working environment:

Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya’s colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi’s finest and best-known luxury hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around Fairmont The Norfolk hotel, which boasts 170 guest rooms and suites, and still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi’s most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served continuously from morning until midnight.

Why work for Accor?
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By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow’s hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor