Job Information
Hilton Senior Affiliate Event Sales Manager - Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
The iconic Hilton Chicago is looking for a Senior Affiliate Event Sales Manager to join their team to solicit and book all affiliate events for future citywide business and In-House groups.
Principle Responsibilities & Position Purpose
Responsible for the solicitation and booking of all affiliate events for future citywide business and In-House groups. Maximizes and drives incremental revenue for the hotel.
Sales & Solicitation:
- Identifies current definite in-house group business
- Communicates with applicable managers servicing the program, including Event Managers, to obtain client information
- Communicates with clients and confirms history and approval process based on contracted terms
- Utilizes multiple and creative sources of information to forecast and solicit new business
- Identifies and attends networking opportunities to determine upcoming (2 years or more) citywide business
- Conducts research of previous affiliate events in Hilton systems to identify and solicit rebooking of business
- Partners with the Sales team in assisting with or coordinating hotel site visits
Client & Internal Communication
- Communicates with clients and ensures proposals and contracts are created and approved on a timely manner
- Communicates with applicable departments and ensures payments, BEOs, sales agreements, logs, and contracts are implemented on a timely manner
Implementation of Service
- Negotiates pricing and terms & conditions not included in main agreement for those companies and organizations affiliated with groups
- Attends internal and external meetings
- Participates in the development and measurement of personal and team goals and action plans
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What benefits will I receive?
- Medical Insurance Coverage Options – for you and your family. Able to enroll after 90 days of employment
- Vision, dental, life and disability insurance
- Mental Health Resources
- Best-in-Class Paid Time Off (PTO) – you can accrue up to 25 days in your first year of employment.
- Go Hilton travel discount program: 100 nights of discounted travel per calendar year
- Participating in the 401(k) Plan and company match is the perfect way to save for the future. We match 100% of every dollar eligible TMs contribute up to 3% of pay, plus 50% of every dollar contributed on the next 2% of pay.
- Career growth and development
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Access to your pay when you need it through DailyPay
- Debt-free education: Access to a wide variety of educational credentials (ex. college degrees, high school completion, English-language learning, digital literacy, professional certificates and more)
- Inclusive family-building and fertility benefits
- Expanded bereavement leave.
- Adoption Assistance program
- Employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - purchase Hilton shares at 15% discount
Sales Incentive
Hilton offers a best-in market SIP (Short-Term Incentive Plan) to our Sales, Catering & Events teams to reward our employees for their contributions to our company’s financial success. The Plan includes a quarterly component worth 20% of bonus eligible earnings. The quarterly incentive may have multiple individually weighted objectives, meaning multiple opportunities to earn a payout
Job: Catering and Event Services
Title: Senior Affiliate Event Sales Manager - Hilton Chicago
Location: null
Requisition ID: HOT0APVG
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