Sales Executive Outdoor Catering Sales
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About the Role
Marriott International is seeking a Sales Executive for Outdoor Catering Sales at JW Marriott Marquis Dubai. The role involves leading proactive catering sales efforts, achieving revenue goals, and ensuring brand compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the properties outside catering sales strategy in alignment with overall business goals
- Drive proactive sales efforts to secure new business and grow existing accounts
- Collaborate with operations and culinary teams to ensure seamless execution of catered events
- Accurately forecast catering revenues and monitor performance against targets
- Identify market trends and customer needs to tailor offerings and enhance competitiveness
- Ensure compliance with brand standards and service excellence in all client interactions
- Maintain strong relationships with key clients, partners, and vendors to support long term business growth
- Represent the hotel at industry events, trade shows, and networking opportunities to promote outside catering services
- Respond to incoming group/catering opportunities
- Conduct site inspections and create contracts as required
Requirements
- Must have 1+ years of progressive sales experience
- Previous experience in the hospitality industry preferred
- Experience selling luxury brands and experiential services preferred
- Experience of selling in catering segment is essential
- Handling outside catering business is essential
- Fluent Arabic both oral and written is desirable but not essential
- 2 year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 4 years’ experience in sales and marketing or related professional area
- 4 year bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management
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POSITION SUMMARY
- The Sales Executive – Outside Catering Sales is responsible for leading the strategic and proactive catering sales efforts for JW Marriott Marquis Dubai.
- This role is pivotal in achieving catering revenue goals, enhancing guest and associate satisfaction, and implementing Marriott’s brand service strategy across all aspects of the outside catering sales process.
- The Sales Executive actively upsells each business opportunity to maximize revenue opportunity, accurate forecasting, and strategic decision making around the hotel’s outside catering initiatives.
- Ensure business is turned over properly and in timely fashion for proper service delivery in accordance with compliance policy of Marriott International / JW Marriott Operating Standards to maintain brand integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the properties outside catering sales strategy in alignment with overall business goals.
- Drive proactive sales efforts to secure new business and grow existing accounts.
- Collaborate with operations and culinary teams to ensure seamless execution of catered events.
- Accurately forecast catering revenues and monitor performance against targets.
- Identify market trends and customer needs to tailor offerings and enhance competitiveness.
- Ensure compliance with brand standards and service excellence in all client interactions.
- Maintain strong relationships with key clients, partners, and vendors to support long term business growth.
- Represent the hotel at industry events, trade shows, and networking opportunities to promote outside catering services.
Candidate Profile Experience
- Must have (1+) years of progressive sales experience
- Previous experience in the hospitality industry preferred; experience selling luxury brands and experiential services preferred
- Experience of selling in catering segment is essential.
- Marriott sales experience is desirable but not essential.
- Handling outside catering business is essential.
- Fluent Arabic both oral and written is desirable but not essential.
Skills and Knowledge
- Reading Comprehension Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Writing Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Oral Comprehension The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Basic Computer Skills Using basic computer hardware and software (e.g., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.).
- Number Facility The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Sales and Marketing Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
- Mathematics Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Customer and Personal Service Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
- Analytical/Critical Thinking The ability to gather and organize information using a logical and systematic process.
- Originality The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about products, services or situations.
- Create and Maintain Relationships with Clients Reach out to clients to help manage the business process.
- Exceeding Customer Expectations Providing services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
Education or Certification
- 2 year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 4 years’ experience in the sales and marketing or related professional area.
- 4 year bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hotel and Restaurant Management
Core Work Activities
- Works collaboratively with off property sales channels (e.g., Event BookingCenter, Market Sales, Strategic Accounts) to ensure sales efforts are coordinated, complementary and not duplicative.
- Targets group/catering accounts, markets, or segments with heavy emphasis on proactive solicitation and account saturation.
- Partners with group/catering counterpart to effectively manage the business opportunity.
- Responds to incoming group/catering opportunities for the hotels that are outside parameters of the Event Booking Center.
- Handles all opportunities if hotels does not participate in an EBC.
- Identifies, qualifies and solicits new group/catering business to achieve personal and each hotel’s revenue goals.
- Focuses efforts on group/catering accounts with significant potential sales revenue.
- Handles complex business with significant revenue potential as well as significant customer expectations.
- Develops effective group/catering sales plans and actions.
- Designs, develops and sells creative catered events.
- Maximize revenue by up selling packages and creative food and beverage.
- Understands the overall market competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them.
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