What are the responsibilities and job description for the Citywide Catering Sales Manager (Corporate) position at Caesars Entertainment?
Job Summary:
The Citywide Catering Sales Manager will have overall responsibility for building and managing Caesars Entertainment Property sales efforts to achieve the company’s financial goals. This will include the oversight and coordination of your specific assigned market, as well as supporting the other Citywide Catering Sales Managers.
Key Job Functions:
- Solicit and book programs which maximize revenue for food and beverage, meeting room rental, and rooms when necessary etc.
- Create custom proposals, draft, finalize and negotiate contracts with clients
- Based on market; make sales calls to promote facilities including appointments as well as local events, tradeshows, familiarization events, site inspections, etc.
- Conduct and arrange site inspections to meeting planners and other prospective clients.
- Meet individual and team booking goals.
- Complete prospecting calls
- If a purchase card is provided to you make sure they are completed and submitted on time.
- Consistently complete reports to include, weekly, comp, lead, hero and cultivating reports
- Consistently meet measurable objectives for properties sales growth.
- Create demand for Caesars properties and increase sales revenue by driving the Caesars brand.
- Personally lead and close large and small account sales opportunities with the intent to gain market share.
- Persistently work toward unquestionable customer retention and satisfaction that will result in customers being enthusiastic references, thus increase brand awareness.
- Create strong collaborative partnerships with property operations that work to accomplish their goals while continuing to build brand identity and delivery in day to day operations.
- Consistently communicate with team and drive superior performance.
- Communicate effectively with other regions, Property and In-Market, Meeting operators and customers
- BA/BS degree preferred, but not required.
- 2 years of prior Hotel Meeting Sales Experience preferred
- Proven experience selling hospitality to a diverse set of customers.