Sales Manager - Amsterdam

Sales Manager

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for hospitality? At Clayton Hotel Amsterdam American part of the Dalata Hotel Group, we believe that great teamwork and leadership are at the heart of hospitality. We are currently looking for an experienced Sales Manager who is eager to take ownership, elevate their teams, and drive outstanding performance while continuing to grow professionally.

In this role, you will enjoy the unique opportunity to shape the culture and success of your team and contribute to the strategy of this hotel. If you are looking for the next opportunity or move in your career in a supportive environment that values innovation and excellence, we invite you to be part of our thriving community at Dalata Hotel Group.

As Sales Manager, you will report to the General Manager.  You will guide and manage hotel operations effectively, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, strategic growth, and high-performance standards while fostering a positive work environment and driving financial success.

Benefits

• 50% Off F&B in all properties
• € 60 employee rate on rooms for all Dalata hotels
• 30% off Friends & Family rate 
• Development Opportunities through our Dalata Academy to support your career journey
• Free employee meals on duty
• Inhouse Experience after probation period
• Extra AL day for every year worked (5 days to a maximum of 5 days)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff Appreciation Initiatives, fun team-building activities and regular charity events

Your Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Effective account management of key corporate accounts, ensuring the hotels capitalise on all opportunities from these existing accounts.
• Source and win new business from the local corporate markets.
• Identify new global RFP opportunities and submit strong business cases for your hotel.
• Represent the hotels at sales team meetings, internal & external customer led events as appropriate.
• Adoption of all available tools to support efficient ways of working including CRM, BI Tool, Market Intelligence Tools and Solver
• Collaborate with Account Management Team to nurture existing, and secure new opportunities following the Dalata sales process.
• Collaborate with the Revenue Manager & General Manager on rate strategy, forecasting for owned segments and identifying & analysing opportunities to ensure they fit with the hotels business strategy.
• Undertake monthly corporate tracking of corporate accounts in the hotels to monitor production and more importantly to identify any decreases and take necessary action to remedy.

These key duties & responsibilities reflects the position’s essential functions; it does not encompass all of the tasks that may be assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working within a similar position in hotels
• Effective communicator
• Be commercially aware with strong analytical skills, be able to understand key business indicators and competitive trends
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Ability to develop and build long lasting relationships through account management, and promote cross selling into Dalata hotel group
• Experience of working with global clients & agencies
• Sales focused and results driven
• Knowledge of the Amsterdam market is essential

About us

Dalata Hotel Group – We bring the heart of hospitality to every hotel we own and operate. We see our growth and expansion plans as a way of spreading our unique way of caring for our guests further around the world, bringing better experiences to more people. Currently, the Dalata difference can be felt at each of our hotels in Ireland, the UK, Germany & the Netherlands, and we’ll keep expanding this further, focusing on key UK cities, Dublin and Continental Europe.

Helping our people to grow and develop their careers is vitally important to us and is one of our highest priorities. We have many exciting and unique internal development programmes, each crafted to make sure our employees get the learning they need to be able to take the next step in their careers.

Dalata Hotel Group Plc is an Inclusive Employer. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply to be part of our team. However, we understand everyone's needs are different; therefore, if you require any accommodations with this application process, please highlight your needs when you are completing your application process.