Hilton - Washington, DC

posted 7 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Washington, DC
251-500 employees
Accommodation

About the position

A Complex Director of Sales with Embassy Suites downtown Convention Center and Hilton Capitol Hill is responsible for maximizing the value of the asset by driving above-market topline revenues and creating a world-class culture, to attract and retain the very best talent, across specific commercial functions. Hilton is seeking strategic leaders who understand how to bring people, process and performance together, to create a winning formula. Hilton's Commercial Services organization is comprised of team members driving our sales, revenue, marketing, catering and events management, call centers, and analytics functions. These functions are the core of Hilton's commercial engine and are essential to Hilton's ability to drive profitable growth. The primary responsibilities of this position are to lead the group, transient, and catering (where applicable) sales team at your hotel/complex and deploy business strategies that are creative, dynamic and impactful towards achieving your hotel's annual budget and crossover targets. As the Complex Director of Sales, you will be responsible for overseeing commercial strategies for your sales team for 2 properties, Hilton WDC Capitol Hill and Embassy Suites Convention Center. Your goal is to improve the performance of the sales team by connecting strategy and business processes. Business processes should be designed to impact revenue streams, including Rooms, Catering and Events. Key deliverables for this role are to set deployment, team composition, and provide a cadence of activities that are a "predictive and prescriptive" approach to drive performance. In this role, you should possess strong leadership, communication, and networking skills. You will facilitate the delivery of the Americas Commercial Operating Model pertaining to rooms (and banquets) sales. You will contribute to the hotel's Annual Multi-Year Strategic Intentions and Commercial Strategy, in partnership with the hotel commercial leadership team and regional sales, revenue and marketing support. You will be directly accountable for setting the strategy and delivery of hotel's sales targets including Direct Selling Revenue Streams including group rooms, banquets, catering, business transient and leisure transient. You will work with Hotel's Commercial Leadership to ensure that Business Review Guidelines (current to 5 years) and Group Pricing & Rate Quotation Strategies are in place in order to maximize all pricing components of sales and catering opportunities and achieve positive group market share.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the group, transient, and catering sales team at the hotel/complex.
  • Deploy business strategies that are creative, dynamic, and impactful towards achieving the hotel's annual budget and crossover targets.
  • Oversee commercial strategies for the sales team for Hilton WDC Capitol Hill and Embassy Suites Convention Center.
  • Connect strategy and business processes to improve the performance of the sales team.
  • Set deployment, team composition, and provide a cadence of activities to drive performance.
  • Contribute to the hotel's Annual Multi-Year Strategic Intentions and Commercial Strategy.
  • Directly accountable for setting the strategy and delivery of hotel's sales targets.
  • Work with Hotel's Commercial Leadership to ensure Business Review Guidelines and Group Pricing & Rate Quotation Strategies are in place.
  • Strategically align sales activities and outcomes with established optimal mix and contribute to the accuracy of revenue forecasts.
  • Understand and contribute to the maximization of profits in line with GOP and EBITDA targets.
  • Operate within departmental expense budget and forecasts.
  • Contribute to the development of knowledge of all competitor and market activity.
  • Lead daily and weekly business review and sales strategy meetings.
  • Manage and execute monthly, quarterly, and annual APEX performance process with eligible sales team members.
  • Contribute to the commercial strategy plan pertaining to sales and socialize and amend plan on a consistent basis.
  • Develop and oversee hotel's sales site visit strategies and approach.
  • Responsible for recruiting and retention of all sales roles.
  • Lead, engage, and develop sales team members, including ongoing performance development and Career Development Plans.
  • Conduct performance reviews for all direct reports and provide feedback for dotted line reports.
  • Facilitate and lead in a culture that is aligned with Hilton's DEI and ESG enterprise goals.
  • Contribute to performance and commercial activity reporting for hotels.
  • Liaise with Hilton Worldwide Sales towards demand and conversion generation.
  • Build strong relationships with CVB and 3rd party travel partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree preferred.
  • Three (3) or more years in hospitality sales & marketing leadership preferred.
  • Three (3) years cross-functional experience in hotel management, or related industry experience preferred.
  • Additional/advanced degree coursework in business administration, marketing and communications is helpful.
  • Adaptable experience with business strategy, business planning, and business plan development.
  • Ability to speak multiple languages is a plus.
  • Multiple Brand experience is preferred.
  • Proficiency in Delphi FDC preferred.

Nice-to-haves

  • Additional/advanced degree coursework in business administration, marketing and communications.
  • Ability to speak multiple languages.
  • Multiple Brand experience.
  • Proficiency in Delphi FDC.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Dental insurance coverage
  • 401k benefit for retirement savings plan
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee discount programs
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