Job description

Want access to your earned wages the next day!?
Do you want access to discounted hotel rooms across the world?
Do you want incentive bonuses?
Do you want to join a dynamic company that provides training and growth opportunities!?

The search is over! Apply to join our team today! We are hiring immediately, and you can have instant access to earned wages right away through our financial wellness platform. Enjoy discounted hotel stays worldwide!
We offer bonus potential for performance. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to gain experience and grow in hospitality.

With Midwest family values and a high-performance mindset, Hawkeye Hotels offers our employees an engaging and fulfilling workplace focused on excellence and growth. Our team comes from different backgrounds but are here for a common mission. If you share our passion for delivering exceptional experiences to our guests, and are eager to grow personally and professionally, apply to join our team!

Founded in 1982 with one roadside hotel in Mena, Arkansas, Hawkeye Hotels has become one of the fastest- growing family-owned hospitality companies in the U.S. We maintain lasting affiliations with leading brands, including Marriott, Hilton, and InterContinental. Because we move quickly and decisively, we maintain a consistent record of fast-paced development. This growth allows our associates to quickly gain valuable experience and develop as professionals. At every level of the business, our associates share a leadership mindset and embrace ownership over their unique responsibilities.

What can you add to this dynamic team? We hope to hear from you today.

Hawkeye Hotels is currently seeking qualified candidates for the Sales Manager position at our soon-to-be-open Cambria Hotel Minneapolis Downtown.

The main responsibilities of this position include: To promote the image and services of the company so that maximum growth occurs through gaining new clients and contracts.

Primary job duties include but are not limited to:

• Follow up leads by visiting prospective clients regularly, often enough to maintain their interest but not too often to alienate them.
• Solicit, negotiate, and book new and repeat business through various efforts (outside sales calls, mailings, referrals, networking, etc...) to achieve and exceed budgeted and year-over-year revenues.
• Analyze historical, current, and future hotel trends, and market trends.
• Create selling strategies to capture the maximum amount of revenue to meet/exceed sales goals.
• Establish marketing budget for each market segment.
• Submit timely and accurate sales reports to the company in terms of actual results of room bookings through cold calling, internet marketing, telephone solicitation, and actively involved within the community and its events.
• Identify prospective clients' exact needs, by questioning, observation, and the completion of a full sales survey.
• Identify and act upon opportunities to achieve maximum RevPar through yield management strategies and

to communicate with the Property General Managers and the Revenue Manager, when needed, of these opportunities.

• Entertain prospective clients, where possible combining this with visits to existing satisfied customers.
• Liaise closely with operational staff on all details for a prospective new contract and gain their agreement on all details.
• Maximize on marketing/informational tools available through the brand ensuring effective selling of rooms inventory through the effective use of the brands’ reservation system, Global Distribution Services, and the internet.
• Referring business to our Hawkeye Hotels sister properties of a sales contact who conducts business within our other geographical markets.
• Minimum of 25 outside sales contacts per week within the assigned market area is required.
• Perform all other duties assigned.

The right candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• Education and/or Experience
• Qualification in hotel sales or related hospitality industry desired.
• Management or senior supervisory experience in hotels or experience in the industry with transferable skills.
• Proven ability to sell

• Communication Skills
• Must be able to read, write and understand the English language, write concise reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar; speak with poise, voice control and confidence using correct English and pleasant voice tone.
• Must be able to conduct and manage meetings, as well as speak to large groups as needed.
• Ability to communicate with staff members who speak/write limited English.
• Must have an outgoing, sales minded personality with the ability to close.

• Accounting Skills
• Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Minneapolis, MN 55403: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• What are your salary expectations?

Experience:

• Sales: 1 year (Preferred)
• Hotel Sales: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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