Group Sales Manager

About Us

Set in the heart of beautiful Orange County, Costa Mesa Marriott provides excellent service, upscale amenities and a Southern California location that allows guests to explore the area with ease.

As an associate at the Costa Mesa Marriott, you will enjoy many great perks! We hold town hall meetings monthly with incentives and team building activities, as well as holiday parties, treat carts, ice cream socials, and lunches with the General Manager.

Additionally, you will have access to free shift meals! What are you waiting for? Join us today at the Costa Mesa Marriott.

Don't meet every single requirement of this job? At HEI we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still send in your information.

You may be the perfect candidate for this or for other roles within our organization!

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Overview

Manage accounts to achieve guest satisfaction and to solicit past and new business to ensure all revenue goals are achieved or exceeded.

Responsible for soliciting new group sales accounts, entertaining, and maintaining relationships with existing accounts to meet and exceed revenue goals in rooms, food, beverage, and room rental.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities


* Solicit new and existing accounts to meet and exceed revenue goals through telephone prospecting, outside sales calls, site inspections and written communication.


* Advanced level of producing room, banquet, and room rental revenue through directly soliciting business via aggressive prospecting, making presentations, developing contracts, negotiating, and closing sales.


* Maximize revenue by selling all facets of the hotel, both orally and in written form to previous, current, and potential clients.


* Handle account details so that all pertinent aspects of solicitation and closing are complete and documented.

Coordinate various departments' participation in servicing accounts.


* Develop and conduct persuasive verbal sales presentations to prospective clients.


* Prepare information for, meet with, and entertain clients as deemed appropriate by potential business from that account.


* Communicate both verbally and in writing to provide clear direction to all departments in the hotel to ensure high quality of service to customers.


* Prepare correspondence to customers, internal booking reports and file maintenance.


* Participate in daily business review meeting, pre-convention meetings, training and other sales-related meetings as required.


* Attend trade shows, community events and industry meetings.


* Advanced knowledge of market trends, competition, and key customers of the hotel.


* Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.


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