**Description:**
Marriott's Autograph Collection features a select group of upscale and luxury independent partner hotels, each with its own distinct personality, experience, style and features\. Located in major cities and desirable destinations around the world, Autograph guests favor hotel stays that reflect their own unique and personal styles\. Be a part of our team and deliver an innovative guest experiences that resists predictability\.
**Qualifications**
**Job Summary**
Responsible for proactively soliciting and handling group/catering related opportunities for all participating properties\. Actively up\-sells each business opportunity and appropriately places business into the right Marriott brand/property to maximize revenue\. Achieves personal and team related revenue goals\. Ensures business is turned over properly and in a timely manner for proper service delivery and in accordance with brand standards\. Responsible for driving customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience\.
**Candidate Profile**
The experience, skills and knowledge and education/certification components of the Candidate Profile should be presented as preferences rather than requirements unless an individual would not be hired for the position without these\. Equivalent work experience may be substituted for years of experience\. Someone who has 1 or more years experience in Dubai in a Luxury Property\.
**Skills and Knowledge**
Leadership
+ Professional Demeanor \- Exhibiting behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; making a good first impression and representing Marriott in alignment with its values\.
+ Adaptability \- Maintaining performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace\.
Managing Execution
+ Driving for Results \- Setting high standards of performance for self and/or others; assuming responsibility for work objectives; initiating, focusing, and monitoring the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively taking action and going beyond what is required
+ Building and Contributing to Teams \- Leading and participating as a member of a team to move toward the completion of common goals while fostering cohesion and collaboration among team members\.
Building Relationships
+ Coworker Relationships \- Interacting with others in a way that builds openness, trust, and confidence in the pursuit of organizational goals and lasting relationships\.
+ Customer Relationships \- Developing and sustaining relationships based on an understanding of customer needs and actions consistent with Marriott's Spirit to Serve\.
Learning and Applying Personal Expertise
+ Technical Acumen \- Understanding and utilizing professional skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function\-specific work challenges
+ Sales Ability: Persuasiveness \- Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to gain acceptance of a product, service, or idea from prospects and clients\.
+ Sales Disposition \- Demonstrating the traits, inclinations, and outlooks that characterize successful salespersons; exhibiting behavior styles that facilitate adaptation to the demands of the sales role\.
+ Supporting Sales Implementations \- Supporting customers during the implementation of sales contracts; seeking and taking appropriate actions on customer feedback; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty\.
+ Basic Competencies \- Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities\.
+ Basic Computer Skills \- Using basic computer hardware and software \(e\.g\., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc\.\)\.
+ Mathematical Reasoning \- The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work\-related issues\.
+ Oral Comprehension \- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences\.
+ Reading Comprehension \- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents\.
+ Writing \- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience\.
Building Successful Relationships that Generate Sales Opportunities
+ Works collaboratively with off\-property sales channels \(e\.g\., Event Booking Center, Market Sales, Strategic Accounts\) to ensure sales efforts are coordinated, complementary and not duplicative\.
+ Builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings\. Activities include sales calls, entertainment, FAM trips, trade shows, etc\.
+ Develops relationships within community to strengthen and expand customer base for group/catering sales opportunities\.
+ Manages and develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders\.
+ Provides accurate, complete and effective turnover to Event Management\.
Conducting Daily Sales Activities that Achieve Department Goals
+ Responds to incoming group/catering opportunities for the property that are outside parameters of the Event Booking Center\.
+ Uses negotiating skills and creative selling abilities to close on business and negotiate contracts\.
+ Uses sales resources and administrative/support staff effectively\.
+ Executes and supports the operational aspects of business booked \(e\.g\., generating proposal, writing contract, customer correspondence\)\.
Using Knowledge of Market Trends and Target Customer Information to Maximize Revenue
+ Identifies new group/catering business to achieve personal and property revenue goals\.
+ Understands the overall market \- competitors strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc\. and knows how to sell against them\.
+ Closes the best opportunities for the property based on market conditions and property needs\.
+ Monitors same day selling procedures to maximize room revenue and control property occupancy\.
+ Gains understanding of the property s primary target customer and service expectations; serves the customer by understanding their business, business issues and concerns, to offer better business solution both prior to, and during the program/event\.
Providing Exceptional Customer Service to all Guests and Customers
+ Supports Marriott s Service and Relationship Strategy, driving customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience\.
+ Services our customers in order to grow share of the account\.
+ Executes and supports Marriott s Customer Service Standards and property s Brand Standards\.
+ Provides excellent customer service consistent with the daily service basics of the brand\.
+ Executes exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and ensuring their satisfaction before and during their program/event\.
+ Partners with Event Management and/or Operations in providing a customer experience that exceeds the customer s expectations\.
+ Sets a positive example for guest relations\.
+ Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels\.
+ Attends pre\- and post\-convention meetings to understand group needs, obtain feedback on quality of product \(e\.g\., rooms, meeting facilities and equipment, food and beverage\), service levels and overall satisfaction\.
+ Executes and supports Marriott s Customer Service Standards and property s Brand Standards\.
+ Executes exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and ensuring their satisfaction before and during their program/event\.
+ Serves the customer by understanding their needs and recommending the appropriate features and services that best meet their needs and exceed their expectations, while building a relationship and loyalty to Marriott\.
Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture\.
**Job:** _Sales & Marketing_
**Organization:** _Autograph_
**Location:** _ARE\-United Arab Emirates_
**Requisition ID:** _16001RM9_