Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants · 1 day ago
Assistant Director Sales and Marketing
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveKimpton Hotels & Restaurants is seeking an Assistant Sales & Marketing Director to develop and implement strategies for achieving revenue and room night sales goals. The role involves managing sales activities, developing team performance, and creating marketing plans to enhance the hotel's visibility and profitability.
HospitalityRestaurants
Responsibilities
Manage daily sales activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance
Train colleagues to make sure they hit hotel revenue goals to the standards we expect and have the tools they need to work effectively
Recommend or initiate any HR related actions where needed
Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive - connect departments to create sense of one team
Interact with outside contacts: guests, vendors, and other contacts as needed
Develop and maintain great working relationships with key clients and outside contacts to increase revenue
Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability
Help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans including the hotel marketing plan
Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage and banquet sales
Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan
Review monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends, coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share and monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan
Create and develop special events and sales blitzes to showcase the hotel to potential clients. Attend trade shows and major market events locally and nationally to promote new business and increase sales and marketing opportunities for the hotel
Work closely with key business leaders, officials, and representatives of local community groups within the city to ensure constant high profile exposure for the hotel
Effectively communicate and market aspects of the hotel that are sustainable or “green” and use information to gain new business opportunities
Work with advertising agencies, consulting firms, and vendors to maximise advertising investments and ensure ads represent brand identity
Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally - occasionally acting as hotel representative for media related enquiree
Identify improvements to marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance and work with other departments
Ad-hoc duties - unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done
Qualification
Required
Develop and implement strategies to ensure revenue and room night sales goals are achieved
Manage daily sales activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback
Create performance and development goals for colleagues
Train colleagues to ensure they hit hotel revenue goals to the standards expected
Recommend or initiate any HR related actions where needed
Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive
Interact with outside contacts: guests, vendors, and other contacts as needed
Develop and maintain great working relationships with key clients and outside contacts to increase revenue
Hit all personal/team sales goals and maximise profitability
Help prepare the departmental budget and financial plans including the hotel marketing plan
Create and implement sales plans that drive measurable incremental occupancy, increase average rates, increase volume, food and beverage and banquet sales
Produce monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends
Coordinate activities to increase revenue and market share
Monitor performance to ensure actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan
Review monthly reports and sales forecasts to analyse current/potential market and sales trends
Create and develop special events and sales blitzes to showcase the hotel to potential clients
Attend trade shows and major market events locally and nationally to promote new business
Work closely with key business leaders, officials, and representatives of local community groups
Effectively communicate and market aspects of the hotel that are sustainable or 'green'
Work with advertising agencies, consulting firms, and vendors to maximise advertising investments
Ensure ads represent brand identity
Raise the awareness and reputation of your hotel and the brand locally
Occasionally act as hotel representative for media related inquiries
Identify improvements to marketing activities and overall hotel sales performance
Work with other departments
Ad-hoc duties - unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done
Company
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
At Kimpton, it’s always personal. We focus on what it means to be human and an individual. You’ll quickly learn Kimpton’s not just a hospitality job.
Founded in 1981
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2014-12-15Acquired
Leadership Team
Roger Doyle
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-11-20
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