Sales Executive, Meetings, Incentives and Events, Job in Kenya

Sales Executive - Meetings,
Incentives and Events

As a Sales Executive in the MICE segment, you
analyze local market trends and competitor activity to generate new future
business for the hotel.

What’s
in it for you:

• Employee benefit card offering
  discounted rates in Accor worldwide


• Learning programs through our
  Academies


• Opportunity to develop your
  talent and grow within your property and across the world!


• Ability to make a difference
  through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, like Planet 21

What you will be doing:

• Analysis local market trends and
  competitor activity to identify new business leads


• Develop customer accounts and
  travel within the local area to drive business into the specific
  hotel/cluster and to increase market/customer share in all revenue streams


• Negotiate room rates/packages
  with corporate clients


• Develop and implement creative
  local marketing channels, including social media channels


• Prepare company contracts for the
  hotel in accordance with current business and pricing conditions


• Work within current business
  strategies and recognize potential opportunities


• Cooperate with other departments
  in the hotel to create an exceptional Guest experience and build strong,
  comprehensive sales programs


• Attend Sales events, as required


• Produce accurate and timely
  reports that meet the needs of the Sales Director and senior management
  including the reporting of appointments, calls made, and business leads


• Answer customer queries in a
  prompt and professional manner

Your experience and
skills include:

• Bachelors degree and/or Hotel
  Management degree preferred


• Minimum of 3 years experience in
  3 star hotel sales. Additional experience in the hospitality industry an
  asset.


• Good understanding of luxury
  market


• Possess or attain affiliation
  with leading industry Association within three years of hire/taking
  position


• Ability to travel on regular
  basis and work flexible hours and days.


• Knowledge of Opera, Microsoft
  Word, Microsoft Outlook.

Your team and working environment:

Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel has played a
leading role in Kenya’s colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi’s finest
and best-known luxury hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew
up around Fairmont The Norfolk hotel, which boasts 170 guest rooms and suites,
and still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the
traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern
Nairobi’s most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served
continuously from morning until midnight.

Why work for Accor?

We are far more than a worldwide leader. We welcome you as you are and you can
find a job and brand that matches your personality. We support you to grow and
learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life, so that
during your journey with us, you can continue to explore Accor’s limitless
possibilities.

By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we
can imagine tomorrow’s hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor,
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