Hyatt is a hospitality company that believes in making people feel at home. They are seeking a Group Sales Manager to join their Sales team, responsible for selling guest rooms and meeting spaces, managing accounts, and achieving revenue goals primarily in the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets.
Responsibilities:
- Sell guest rooms, meeting space, and related hotel services to assigned group market segments
- Manage an assigned account base, including existing customers, special accounts, and target prospects
- Solicit and generate new business through proactive outreach, direct sales calls, prospecting, networking, and relationship building
- Focus primarily on pharmaceutical and healthcare group business, while also developing opportunities within finance, insurance, and other corporate markets
- Prepare and present effective proposals, contracts, and business recommendations that align with client needs and hotel revenue goals
- Respond promptly and professionally to leads, RFPs, phone inquiries, emails, and client requests
- Conduct site inspections, property tours, pre-planning visits, and client entertainment as appropriate
- Negotiate business terms to maximize hotel profitability while satisfying customer needs
- Maintain accurate, well-organized documentation, account files, sales activities, production records, reports, and follow-up plans
- Partner with Revenue Management, Events, Operations, and hotel leadership to qualify business and ensure smooth turnover of definite groups
- Coordinate customer service requirements with internal hotel departments to support successful program execution
- Participate in and, when appropriate, lead sales calls, sales blitzes, client meetings, and market outreach
- Travel for business development, tradeshows, customer appointments, and industry events
- Meet or exceed assigned sales goals, revenue targets, activity expectations, and account production objectives
- Represent Grand Hyatt DFW and Hyatt professionally in all customer, colleague, and industry interactions
- Demonstrate Hyatt’s purpose of care through service, empathy, integrity, inclusion, respect, and a strong commitment to client satisfaction
Requirements:
- Minimum of two years of hotel sales experience requires
- Strong understanding of the group sales process, account management, prospecting, and customer relationship management
- Proven ability to solicit, qualify, negotiate, and close group business
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation, proposal-writing, and negotiation skills
- Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, target-driven environment
- Comfortable working with sales systems, lead platforms, RFP tools, reporting tools, and Microsoft Office
- Ability to travel for client appointments, business development, and tradeshows
- Self-motivated, competitive, professional, and goal-oriented
- Remote-based candidates must be located in Northeast U.S. states, as required
- Pharmaceutical and/or healthcare group sales experience preferred
- Experience selling corporate group business, especially within finance and insurance sectors, preferred