Assistant Sales Manager

Exceed personal sales goals, monthly, quarterly, annually, through account development and maintenance, regular sales calls, entertainment and sales trips / tradeshows. Develop lead sources through prospecting, solicitation, referrals, trace files, and cold calls Conducts site inspections with prospective and existing clients Develops and implements new sales strategies, tactics, and action plans for account base Coordinate and financially manager sales trips, including reports, or activity pertaining to the specific market Assist other sales and catering managers and refer group and catering leads and other sources of business for hotel through active solicitation of account base Responsible to submit weekly sales report Maintain and update current account information Involvement in industry Functions and or trade shows, FAM visits and Industry events To handle and solicit all incoming leads from every source that want to book guest rooms Responsible for preparing contracts that will go directly to the client for signature Responsible for continually monitoring guestroom block in order to ensure a more accurate forecast Ensure that deposits or cancellation fees where applicable are forwarded to Accounting Responsible for dissemination of event information to the appropriate departments via memos, emails, banquet event orders, directives, resumes and rooming lists in a professional and timely manner Conduct pre-conference meetings to ensure key departments fully aware of relevant pertaining to group Post conference follow up to address strengths and weaknesses of the event whilst soliciting return business Establish good business and social relationships with the industry and participate in activities related to the public relations in order to further increase sales leads for department as well as Hotel Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports as required and assist with compilation of competitive intelligence information