Meeting & Events Sales Executive - NLW - Sales & Marketing

Salary - CompetitiveHoliday - 28 days holiday, enhanced after 5 years of service. But there's more... Free meals on duty. Uniform offered and dry cleaned. Discounted employee friends & family rates at Arora Hotels. Food and beverage discounts. Christmas gifts and employee parties. Introduce a friend scheme. Cycle 2 work scheme. UK attraction discounts @ Merlin Entertainments. Taste card. Life assurance scheme. Wage stream. Employee assistance programme. Arora star employee recognition. Long service recognition award. About us... Novotel London West is the perfect base for Business and leisure. With 630 spacious ensuite rooms plus a selection of restaurants and bars showcasing fresh international flavours. Our hotel has state of the art gym facilities and 40 flexible conference and meeting rooms. A bit about what you will do... M&E Sales Executives successfully sell our meeting and event spaces while managing client relationships to ensure exceptional, unique and memorable experiences are created.

• Respond to and actively convert incoming group, meetings and event enquiries into confirmed bookings to achieve targets and maximise revenue.
• Fully explore the sales potential of all new and existing clients.
• Chase provisional bookings to ensure best possible opportunity for conversion.
• Conduct site visits for prospect bookings and be involved in fam trips and internal events.
• Build strong relationships with key clients and agents to fully understand their needs, maintaining pro-active contact with them.
• Actively up-sell each business opportunity, selling all function space to its maximum capacity and to the right target market.
• Develop a knowledge of competitor properties and enquiry sales processes.
  
  Excellent presentation, negotiation and selling skills.
• Very strong communication skills and a high standard of written and spoken English.
• Strong attention to detail. A smart and professional appearance.
• Most of all, you have an approachable, positive, and proactive manner.
• Experience in a similar role within a 4-star hotel is a significant advantage.
• Knowledge of Delphi/Salesforce systems is preferred.