Meeting & Events Sales Executive
Arora Group
Date: 10 hours ago
City: Egham, England
Contract type: Full time
Salary – Competitive
Holiday – 28 days holiday, enhanced after 5 years of service.
But there’s more...
Fairmont Windsor Park is a beautiful, heartfelt retreat surrounded by 40 acres of English countryside that blends iconic heritage with modern elegance. Our five-star hotel includes 251 luxurious bedrooms and suites accompanied by 7 restaurants and bars offering an unrivalled dining experience. The spa and wellness facilities are inspired by nature and the hotel has state of the art conference facilities.
A Bit About What You Will Do...
M&E Sales Executives successfully sell our meeting and event spaces while managing client relationships to ensure exceptional, unique and memorable experiences are created.
We are growing rapidly and with growth comes advancement opportunities. Being part of the Arora group there are exciting opportunities for career progression and development across our properties and brands.
Skills
Fluent in English
Holiday – 28 days holiday, enhanced after 5 years of service.
But there’s more...
- Free meals on duty.
- Uniform offered and dry cleaned.
- Complimentary on-site parking is available whilst on duty.
- Free limited shuttle service between the hotel and Heathrow Terminal 5 and Egham Station.
- Discounted employee friends & family rates at Arora Hotels.
- Food and beverage discounts.
- Christmas gifts and employee parties
- Introduce a friend scheme
- Cycle 2 work scheme.
- UK attraction discounts @ Merlin Entertainments.
- Taste card.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Wage stream.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Arora star employee recognition.
- Long service recognition award.
Fairmont Windsor Park is a beautiful, heartfelt retreat surrounded by 40 acres of English countryside that blends iconic heritage with modern elegance. Our five-star hotel includes 251 luxurious bedrooms and suites accompanied by 7 restaurants and bars offering an unrivalled dining experience. The spa and wellness facilities are inspired by nature and the hotel has state of the art conference facilities.
A Bit About What You Will Do...
M&E Sales Executives successfully sell our meeting and event spaces while managing client relationships to ensure exceptional, unique and memorable experiences are created.
- Respond to and actively convert incoming group, meetings and event enquiries into confirmed bookings to achieve targets and maximise revenue.
- Fully explore the sales potential of all new and existing clients.
- Chase provisional bookings to ensure best possible opportunity for conversion.
- Conduct site visits for prospect bookings and be involved in fam trips and internal events.
- Build strong relationships with key clients and agents to fully understand their needs, maintaining pro-active contact with them.
- Actively up-sell each business opportunity, selling all function space to its maximum capacity and to the right target market.
- Develop a knowledge of competitor properties and enquiry sales processes.
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and selling skills.
- Very strong communication skills and a high standard of written and spoken English.
- Strong attention to detail. A smart and professional appearance.
- Most of all, you will have an approachable, positive, and proactive manner.
- Experience in a similar role within a 5-star hotel is a significant advantage.
- Knowledge of Delphi/Salesforce systems is preferred.
We are growing rapidly and with growth comes advancement opportunities. Being part of the Arora group there are exciting opportunities for career progression and development across our properties and brands.
Skills
Fluent in English
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