- Establish client base of individuals, organizations, associations, social, and/or corporate businesses through direct outside and inside selling to secure business for the company to ensure that events sales and revenue goals are met or exceeded.
- Actively prospect and qualify new business.
- Validate the potential of assigned accounts and create account plans
- Grow assigned accounts so to meet fixed goals and maximise profitability
- Gather information on current and prospective clients / contacts to generate incremental business.
- Monitors competitor's activities and assists in marketing intelligence.
- Sells to new, existing and prospective customers considering goals set forth in the sales strategy, negotiating optimum rate for the benefit of the business.
- Provide feedback to management on changing market conditions, including competition and market trends.
- Involve the management where appropriate on sales calls and sales meetings
- Handle and manage clients queries or issues.
- Be proactive and responsible for the follow up of new sales leads to enhance guest experience.
- Develop and maintain contact with business
- Coordinate all logistical aspects of internal events, including venue selection, catering, audiovisual (AV) setup, and stakeholder communications.
- Efficiently manages pre-event preparations, event days, and post-event wrap-ups.
- Efficiently manages pre-event preparations, event days, and post-event wrap-ups.
- Administration tasks such as:
Attendance Monitoring
emergency leave and annual leave
Employees evaluation and appraisal
Skills
- Bachelor Degree
- Solid computer skills, proficiency in the use of office software products (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
- Excellent ability to effectively communicate in a clear and concise manner in Arabic. Bilingual is an advantage.
- Minimum 3-5-year experience in a similar position preferably in a luxury lifestyle hospitality
- Experience in chocolate retailing and sales