Director of Sales

Posted 19 Days Ago
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Riyadh, SAU
In-Office
Entry level
Events • Food • Travel • Hospitality • Hotels & Resorts
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The Role
Leads hotel sales strategy across group, business transient, leisure, and catering segments. Drives revenue and profitability through pricing, business-mix optimization, forecasting, market analysis, and commercial planning. Partners with revenue, marketing, travel organizations, and key clients to increase demand and conversion. Recruits, develops, and manages a high-performing sales team while building stakeholder relationships and supporting major site visits and conventions.
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Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our Hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a Sales Director, you’re not just driving revenue growth across all hotel segments – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.

Responsibilities

Here's what you'll do during a typical day:

  • Shape and execute sales strategy: Develop and implement revenue-driving sales strategies across group, business transient, leisure transient, and catering segments, aligned with the hotel’s commercial goals and strategic plan
  • Drive revenue performance and profitability: Contribute to achieving revenue targets and profitability goals by optimizing pricing, improving business mix, and guiding forecasting accuracy
  • Lead business reviews and planning: Facilitate regular strategy and performance meetings while contributing to long-range commercial planning through analysis of performance trends, market shifts, and revenue opportunities
  • Ensure commercial alignment: Collaborate with revenue and marketing leaders to align sales tactics with pricing, distribution, and promotional strategies, and to support forecasting and rate strategies
  • Foster stakeholder relationships: Engage with Hilton Worldwide Sales, Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs), third-party travel partners, and key clients to drive demand, improve conversion, and support high-impact site visits and pre-convention meetings
  • Develop data-informed strategies: Track market and competitor activity to inform strategy and help maintain competitive positioning in group and transient segments
  • Cultivate a high-performing team: Recruit new talent while driving team growth and engagement through performance management, professional development, and recognition programs
Qualifications

What It Takes to Make the Stay

At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:

A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.

    About Us
    Join an Award-Winning Workplace Culture
    At Hilton, we don’t just deliver exceptional experiences for our guests—we build an exceptional workplace for the Team Members who make it all possible. As a global leader in hospitality, we’ve welcomed more than 3 billion guests worldwide, all while staying true to our founding vision: to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.
    Our award-winning culture has earned us repeated recognition on the World’s Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune. With our suite of world-class brands, and a company-wide commitment to providing the best stay for every guest, we’re setting new standards for the future of travel.
    Whether you’re starting your career or exploring something new, Hilton supports your journey every step of the way. Come for the job, stay for the career—and help us make every stay a little more magical.
    Curious about life at Hilton? Explore our Careers Blog to see why we’re more than a great place to stay—we’re a great place to work. 

    Hilton Compensation & Benefits Highlights

    • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — The Go Hilton travel program offers up to 110 discounted nights per year, with employee room rates as low as $40 and additional friends-and-family and on‑property dining discounts. Select programs like Thrive Sabbatical and Thrive Reset provide paid time off with stipends for personal goals or recharge.
    • Retirement Support — The U.S. 401(k) match is 100% on the first 3% of pay plus 50% on the next 2%, enabling up to a 4% employer match when contributing 5%. This delivers a clear, formula-based boost to long‑term savings.
    • Parental & Family Support — New parents receive four weeks of fully paid parental leave, with birthing parents receiving an additional eight weeks for a total of 12 weeks. Adoption assistance and caregiving support resources are also available.

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    The Company
    HQ: McLean, VA
    500,000 Employees
    Year Founded: 1919

    What We Do

    Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 28 world-class brands comprising more than 9,400 properties and nearly 1.4 million rooms, in 144 countries and territories. Dedicated to fulfilling its founding vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, Hilton has welcomed over 4 billion guests in its more than 100-year history. Named as the No. 1 World’s Best Workplace by Great Place to Work and Fortune, Hilton aims to create the best culture for its 500,000 team members around the world. Hilton has introduced industry-leading technology enhancements to improve the guest experience, including Digital Key Share, automated complimentary room upgrades and the ability to book confirmed connecting rooms. Through the award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors, the more than 260 million Hilton Honors members who book directly with Hilton can earn Points for hotel stays and experiences money can't buy. With the free Hilton Honors app, guests can book their stay, select their room, check in, unlock their door with a Digital Key and check out, all from their smartphone.

    Why Work With Us

    Hilton is proud to be recognized as the World’s Best Workplace by Great Place to Work and Fortune. At Hilton, every job makes the stay. Team Members can make an impact, be themselves, build new skills, grow their careers, explore opportunities around the world, and enjoy people-first benefits like Go Hilton travel discounts.

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