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Sales Co-ordinator, Kent

Employer
Alexander House Hotels & Utopia Spas
Location
Wilmington, DA2 7QH
Salary
Up to £20,000 + excellent incentive scheme £3k
Closing date
1 Jun 2019

Job Details

Sales Co-ordinator

The Place

Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa, part of Alexander Hotels a private group of quality hotels of distinction just outside London.

4 Star, Award winning Utopia Spa, 38 bedroom hotel together with the Clockhouse banqueting suite and Pavilion conference venue all within the grounds of 15 acres of beautiful gardens.

Events cover a range of styles from conferences, corporate events, weddings, private dining, celebration dinners and party nights for the festive period. They range from intimate dinners for 2 to corporate or wedding events up to 150 with evening functions with bar service for 200. Please see our guest website for further details of our facilities

The Role

Working in a small sales team you will be required to ensure the success in both the reactive and proactive selling of Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in all aspects of conference, day meetings, weddings and banqueting.

Reporting to the Snr Sales Executive, your role with have responsibility for ensuring success across the following areas;

  • To reactively and proactively sell Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in all aspects of conference and banqueting
  • To handle telephone, email and online enquiries for functions including weddings, conferences and private dining
  • To carry out showrounds and appointments at the hotel
  • Completing the necessary administration to ensure the event is successful from a customer service and financial point of view
  • To ensure the production of accurately and timely function information ensuring it is effectively communicated to the operational managers
  • Achievement of Mystery Guest standards and scores for all sales actions completed
  • Ensure the best financial use of all conference and banqueting space
  • To generate new leads and enquiries as well as maintaining existing/return business
  • Recommend ideas and initiatives to develop sales/revenue for meetings and events business

Requirements

  • Full time role, 40hrs per week including weekends as required
  • Previous sales experience
  • Smart appearance and friendly telephone manner
  • Strong organisation skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent attention to detail

The Benefits

Up to £20,000 dependant on experience  + uncapped incentive

Additional uncapped earnings available from financial incentives based on wedding sales and conference bedroom upgrades. Realistic additional earnings £3,000 per annum.

  • 4 weeks holiday
  • 8 Bank holidays
  • Free car parking
  • Employee uniform

In addition you will benefit from a range of company benefits including:

Discounted hotel accommodation for yourself and your family at all hotels
Discounted hair treatments at our two Utopia Spas
Discount off all food & beverage at all hotels
Discount of individual treatments booked in our two Utopia Spas
Discount on retail products in our two Utopia Spas
Refer a friend staff recruitment scheme In additional you will enjoy a range of other benefits when you celebrate your 1 yr, 3 yr and 5 yr anniversary including; your birthday off paid, complimentary overnight stays, complimentary lunch/afternoon tea and service related holiday

Company

Welcome to Alexander Hotels .A luxury collection of boutique, country house hotels and spa hotels near London. All surrounded by stunning countryside, these privately owned and stylish four and five star hotels comprise of Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa in Sussex, Barnett Hill Hotel in Surrey,  Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in Kent and Langshott Manor Hotel in Surrey.

At Alexander Hotels, our people take great pride in providing traditional hospitality which complements our stunning country hotels. We are always on the look out for outstanding people with the personality and confidence to shine.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01342 859752
Location
Turners Hill,
East Grinstead,
West Sussex
RH10 4QD
GB

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