Working with us provides great benefits, including:
* Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform Wagestream, a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
* Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
* 50% off Food & Beverage at all our Hotels & F&B Venues
* Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
* Retail, Cinema & Leisure Discounts
* Development Opportunities via our Grow with us initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
* Monthly Star of the Month Awards
* Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
* Recommend a Friend Incentive Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
* Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) available 24/7, 365 days per year.
* Pension Scheme
* Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year
About the role:
Are you a tenacious, driven and experienced sales executive looking for your next step in your career into a Business Development Manager role or to develop your skills within two branded properties?
If your answer is yes, then this is the role for you!
You'll be an integral part of the proactive team, reporting into the Director of Sales and Marketing working alongside the Commercial Team, Cluster Revenue Manager and the Central Sales and Marketing Support teams.
Your efforts will be focused to drive and retain business growth opportunities. Primarily obtaining new clients and fostering new business relationships to increase total hotel sales revenue. Local and national corporate knowledge alongside relationship building is key along with a desire to have strong commercial acumen and to represent the DoubleTree by Hiton Harrogate Majestic Hotel & Spa and Elmbank York, Tapestry Collection by Hilton!
About you
* Confident with excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable with travelling and attending a variety of events such as fam trips, networking events and appointments
* Possess excellent communication skills. You'll need to be a good co-operator with a professional, warm, trusting and friendly approach, reacting to change in a positive way
* Comfortable working towards KPI and targets
* Proven sales and marketing track record
* Well informed about the corporate and MICE market and industry
* Ability to build and maintain long lasting relationships with existing and new clients
* Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to stay calm under pressure, adapting your approach to complete routine and non-routine tasks
* High attention to detail and accuracy great at managing one's own time
* Have a creative and innovative approach with the ability to react to various commercial verticals in quick pace
* Great team working skills across hotels, teams, central support and the brand all whilst being comfortable to work alone
* Self-motivating and resilient
* Capable of using multiple avenues and maintaining focus on researching projects
* Experience within the Hospitality sector
* Knowledge of Delphi and Salesforce desirable
Possess a full and valid UK drivers licence
About us
At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.
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This is a very exciting time to join us following a recent multi-million pound refurbishment restoring the hotel back to its former glory! A palatial and stately Victorian property, DoubleTree by Hilton Harrogate Majestic is a Harrogate landmark, set in 8 acres of private gardens in the heart of this elegant spa town. Built at the height of Harrogates prosperity in the 19th Century, DoubleTree by Hilton Harrogate Majestic is a grand, opulent base from which to discover the towns many fine buildings, excellent shops and beautiful parks and gardens, or head out into the magnificent Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Benefits
Hilton Honors Team Member Scheme / Staff Rate
Cairn Group Staff Discount Scheme
Retail and travel discounts
Recruit a friend Scheme
Induction and training programme
Star of the Month & Golden Ticket Award
Pension scheme
Meals on Duty
Uniform
Cycle 2 work scheme*
Free use of Gym
* apply to positions above minimum wage
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