Sales Manager - Leicester

As a Sales Manager with Premier Inn, we want you to grow and develop fast. After all, it's just as profitable for us as it is for you! We're great at recognising people's strengths and helping them build on them, with superb training. With unlimited career opportunites throughout Premier Inn and the Whitbread Group, there are few better places to develop a career in sales.

As Sales Manager for our site in Leicester, you’ll have the stimulating task of developing a range of site-based commercial and group leisure accounts and proactively sourcing and securing new business. You’ll work with our National Sales Team in order to maximise the strength of our overall sales strategy and inform customers abut any changes within our company.

The company:

These are exciting times to join us at Whitbread. As the UK’s leading hospitality company, we’re incredibly proud of our success, managing leading brands in hotels, restaurants and retail. If you’ve ever used a Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Beefeater or Costa, then you’ll know how good we really are. What’s more, as a FTSE 100 company and Times Top 20 Employer, we’re constantly at the forefront of UK leisure and hospitality growth, development and innovation.

Your main responsibilities as Sales Development Manager will involve:

• Developing new sales and growing the existing customer business
• Liaising with the national sales team to support specific sites and drive the overall sales strategy
• Communicating regularly with customers and keeping them informed of changes
• Building strategic relationships with groups, frequent bookers and booking agents to maximise revenue

Your skills and qualifications as a Sales Development Manager will ideally include:

• A will to win and a positive, can do attitude
• Experience in a customer facing role
• Previous business development or account development experience desirable

What we we’ll be looking for in you:

We’re looking for passionate and driven sales professonials to join our industry leading team. With an innate need to win and to constantly innovate and be the very best, you will share our vision of the future of hospitality and will be looking for a new and challenging future within a brand and a company you can really buy into.