Your Challenge: Drive Growth and Lead a High-Performance Sales Engine!
Ready to be the architect of growth and a hospitality strategy expert? This is a high-impact leadership role where you will be fully responsible for spearheading our sales efforts and driving business growth. You will lead a talented sales team, building powerful client relationships and identifying untapped market opportunities. Your strategic mindset and ability to deliver results will be key to your success, demonstrating your ability to celebrate our value to "Play To Win."
Your Strategic & Leadership DutiesAs our Director of Sales, you are the essential link between market potential and realized revenue, responsible for setting the strategy and leading the charge.
Essential Tasks Include:
Strategy Development & Execution: Develop and implement innovative sales strategies to achieve revenue targets. Your vision is critical to our long-term business growth.
Team Leadership: Manage and lead the sales team to ensure they meet their targets and objectives. Your mentorship will foster a culture of high performance and accountability.
Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong, lasting relationships with key clients. Your negotiation skills will ensure customer satisfaction and high retention rates.
Market Intelligence: Analyze market trends and competitor activity to ensure our sales approach remains competitive. Use data-driven insights to pivot strategies as needed.
Growth Identification: Proactively identify new business opportunities and develop actionable plans to capitalize on them, expanding our footprint in the industry.
We seek visionary leaders who are ready to excel in a high-stakes, results-oriented environment.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in sales management within the Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation industry.
Proven track record of achieving aggressive sales targets and driving business growth.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
Experience in developing successful sales strategies specifically for the extended stay or hospitality market.
Experience in managing and leading a remote or multi-site sales team.
Deep network of existing contacts within the Hospitality and Tourism industry.
If you possess a blend of strategic brilliance, leadership excellence, and a "We Are All In" spirit, we want to hear from you!
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in sales management within the Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation industry
- Proven track record of achieving aggressive sales targets and driving business growth
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
- Experience in developing successful sales strategies specifically for the extended stay or hospitality market
- Experience in managing and leading a remote or multi-site sales team
- Deep network of existing contacts within the Hospitality and Tourism industry
What We Do
The “Spirit of Welcome!” is alive and well at Sandpiper. In fact, in many ways, it defines our attitude and behavior. By virtue of this spirit, we have the opportunity and responsibility to enrich the lives of so many people; to touch and influence so many essential people beginning with our associates, extending to our guests and our communities and finally, to our investors and partners. Sandpiper Hospitality was born out of an entrepreneurial spirit determined to find the optimal cross-section of genuine, welcoming hospitality and superior financial returns. That spirit is as bright as ever today as Sandpiper stands on the precipice of compelling growth due to our ability to exceed the expectations of our associates, guests and our investors. We believe that Team Sandpiper has perfectly mixed hospitality with financial acumen to create an organization that is reliable and yet evolutionary for our associates and guests while being accountable and lucrative to our investors and owners. And it all begins with a Sandpiper Welcome!
