Account Manager - London

Account Manager - Royal Garden Hotel, London

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic professional to join our Sales and Marketing team here at the Royal Garden Hotel as an Account Manager.

We are looking for a motivated individual with a confident and outgoing personality. The successful candidate will ideally have the ability to develop relationships, prioritise tasks, and be able to plan client requirements and managing needs.

The Account Manager role will be responsible for the hotels re-active group, leisure and corporate sales function. Whilst managing tasks of Sales Executives and implements agreed sales strategies. In this role we are looking for a candidate who has previous experience within a hotel environment or group sales environment and has the ability to manage people as well.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of this professional and well established independent five star 394 bedroom hotel in the heart of Kensington, London.

In the role you will:

• Manage a team of Sales Executives ensuring they excel in their duties
• Responsibility for converting group enquiries
• Manages corporate and leisure contracting
• Manages Group contracting
• Manages deposit and billing requirement for groups stays
• Identifying and pass on sales leads to the pro-active sales team from Groups, Reception, Reservations, Food and Beverage and Conference and Events
• Work alongside the Senior Conference and Events Sales Co-ordinator ensuring a joint Groups and Conference and Event sales strategy is followed
• Completes in full the Groups booking tasks by implementing and adhering to the company enquiry process with the aim of converting group enquiries, involving the pro-active sales team where required.
• Ensures all group enquiries are placed in Delphi on the same working day as proposing to the client