**About us** About Us**
IHG Hotels & Resorts is one of the world's leading hotel companies with around 350,000 colleagues working across more than 100 countries. As part of the IHG team, our people help our guests create amazing memories and deliver our purpose of providing True Hospitality for Good.
The award-winning, luxury InterContinental Sydney Double Bay is looking for a passionate Business Development Executive to join our drives Sales team.
**Your day to day**
As Business Development Executive you will support the Sales, Marketing & Revenue team to achieve the hotel's commercial priorities. We are looking for someone with a passion to grow their career with this first step into Sales & Marketing.
Your day to day activities will include but not be limited to;
- Proactively searching for new business or up-selling opportunities in every customer you encounter
- Identifying trends in movement of market mix, pricing, and competition to target prospects and the right business mix, and develop mitigation plans
- Creation of proposals
- Creating an ongoing pipeline and successfully shift business from the competition through active engagement with clients
- Managing an account base to exceed targets with the implementation of effective sales plans and activities
**What we need from you**
- The ability to develop and maintain contact with key decision makers, key influencers, meeting planners, professional conference, event organisers, and other producers closely aligned to the hotel.
- Great written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of sales principles and techniques, good presentation, strong influencer and persuader and flexible work approach
- Ability to develop sales plans, establish goals and objectives, set performance targets and deliver projects on tim
- Proactive approach to developing and maintaining strong relations with clients and stakeholders including customers' senior management
- Proactive approach with strong drive for results and a track record of achievement
**What we offer**:
You'll be rewarded for your hard work with a suite of benefits that supports you and your family's wellbeing, including:
- Paid birthday leave, enhanced parental leave
- Free gym membership, and dry cleaning
- Flexible work options - talk to us about what works for you
- Opportunity for unlimited incentives
- Training and Development
- Proactive health days
- IHG support through lifelong development program
- Popular hotel perks and discounts in retail platform
Job Reference: EMEAA32315