Area Leisure Sales Manager

Role Summary:

Join our team as the Area Leisure Sales Manager for Hotel Jerome (Aspen, CO) and The Madeline (Telluride, CO), and become one of the authors of our story. As part of the Auberge family, you will be responsible for identifying and sourcing leisure / transient business in accordance with the collection’s strategic plan to maximize room revenue during peak and nonpeak periods. 

Key Responsibilities:

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of everything that needs to be done!  Within the Auberge family, our people always find new ways to look after the business, their guests, and their teammates.   Within this, the key responsibilities for this position are:

• Responds to sales inquiries
• Initiates new sales
• Prospects and qualifies
• Leads and solicits potential clients
• Entertain clients
• Conducts site visits, answers questions, determines rates, prepares proposals, and negotiates contracts, services accounts for the hotel/s.
• Develops sales plans and strategies to meet or exceed established revenue goals.
• Works with various departments to ensure requested services are provided to customers.
• Build effective relationships with consortia accounts – AMEX FHR, Virtuoso, Signature, etc.
• Solicit, negotiate, and service appropriate FIT accounts as it relates to agent training, marketing, reservations, etc.
• Accurately maintain and build Salesforce database of clients. 
• Conduct ongoing internal training with hotel reservations, front office, and F&B as needed to ensure resort performance with consortia programs and expected service levels.
• Perform other duties as directed, developed, or assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Four-year college degree, preferably in Hospitality, Marketing, Business or a related field) or equivalent education/experience
• Minimum 4 years sales leadership experience in a leisure position in a luxury hotel/destination sales environment.
• Demonstrated record of driving sales revenues in luxury hotel/destination environment