Purpose of Role

As a Sales Manager- Travel Trade, you’ll be responsible for exploring and developing business opportunities with travel trade accounts to achieve the Hotel’s business goals.

What you'll get?

At Swire Hotels, we ask a lot of our team members, which is why we give so much in return. In addition to your competitive salary, medical/dental and leave entitlement, we’ll shower you with perks, including:

• Fun: Meet with hoteliers who bring playfulness at work each day!
• Location: Access to three Metro lines nearby, get here quickly thanks to our highly accessible location
• Fun:  Meet with hoteliers who bring playfulness at work each day!
• Development: Trainings to enhance your skills to upgrade yourself & equip you for challenges ahead in the evolving environment!
• Authenticity: You got accessories, hair dyes or tattoos? No worries, we accept the stylish you!

What you'll need?

• Experience: 3 to 5 years’ relevant sales or business development experience. Hotel experience, Front Office or Guest Relationship experience is a plus.

• Education: University or diploma holder in any discipline.

• Skills: Strong business sense with development and distribution, with knowledge of travel market a plus. Strong negotiation and selling skills. Computer literate. Excellent command of both written and spoken English and Chinese.

• Personality: Great team player, but also able to work independently. Enjoy working in a fun, dynamic and creative environment.

What you'll do?

• Assist DOS in achieving monthly and year-end budget of travel trade segments.

• Work with Revenue, Reservation as well as Guest Experience team to general all the travel/leisure business.

• Lead site inspections and entertaining travel trade account decision makers and booking handlers,

• Be responsible for regular partnership develop & maintenance with travel agents, overseas partners.

• Explore business opportunity via travel trade partners through courtesy calls.

• Attend tradeshows/ sales trips both locally and overseas.

• Assistant DOS to work with central support office and overseas partners of Swire Hotels to promote the property regular travel business.

• Take up special assignments, work with property operation team for VIP/HH/High Profile Client business instructed by DOS.

• Maintain effective communication with Hoteliers in order to obtain market intelligence.

Swire Hotels make sure that every job applicant and employee has equal employment opportunities. You will not be disadvantaged because of your sex, pregnancy, disability, race, marital status, family status, age or sexual orientation during your employment or when applying for a job with us. What matters to us is that you are the best person for the job and that you do a good job. All Information collected will be used for employment purpose only. Applicants who do not hear from us within six weeks of application should consider their applications unsuccessful. Unsuccessful applications will be destroyed after an appropriate time.

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