Welcome to the Bright Side® at La Quinta Inns & Suites.

Who is La Quinta?
We help brighten the day of our busy, practical, hardworking travelers and help them take care of their business or leisure travel needs. We provide the best hotel rooms, warmest hotel atmosphere and most courteous service in our market segment at every hotel, every night.

• Fastest growing limited-service hotels in the North America
• Operate and provide franchise services with over 65,000 rooms in over 700 properties
• Locations in 46 states plus Canada and Mexico under the names La Quinta Inns and La Quinta Inns & Suites
• Based out of Dallas, Texas, over 9,000 employees nationwide work on the Bright Side

Our Goal, it's easy
We want for every guest to wake up on the bright side while staying at our hotel. We offer clean and comfortable guest rooms with a dose of advertising humor to help our guest feel optimistic and happy no matter what the day holds. A great portion of this comes directly from our employees attitudes. And as if that wasn't enough, we offer our guest free Bright Side™ breakfast, free hi-speed Internet while they stay with us and comfy beds. Many of our properties include pools and well equipped work-out facilities.

What sets us apart?
Every team member plays a vital role in the success of our family and growth. We are not a conglomerate of hotels brands that make decision on panel of "experts". We make an effort to know all our employees and help them grow through our training program. While we may be one of the largest owner-operators of hotels in North America, we are a family first.

Our Philosophy
At La Quinta, we have a culture by which we are never satisfied. It doesn't matter how well we have done something in the past or how well we may do it today, our goal is to continually improve. Our operating philosophy is very simple:

• Take care of our employees
• Take care of our guests
• Keep the hotels spotlessly clean and well maintained

Everything we do at La Quinta truly revolves around our people, our product and our service.

Benefits
We work just as hard to create a work environment that's equally inviting and with many benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
  
• Vision coverage
  
• Disability
  
• Paid vacation
  
• Discounted hotel stay at all of our locations
  
• Flex Spending account plans
  
• 401K
  

POSITION SUMMARY:

 

This position is responsible for the growth and development of the La Quinta brand through franchise sales. The overall duties include soliciting all hotel owners and developers in their respective sales territory to inform them of franchise opportunities with La Quinta and ultimately sell such hotel owners the La Quinta franchise for their respective market; and identifying markets for potential La Quinta franchise development through networking and nurturing relationships with hotel brokers, hotel consultants and land owners/land brokers.  The Director must also reside in either AR, LA, MS, AL , TN or GA

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

 
* Solicit hotel owners to identify potential La Quinta Franchisees and utilize closing techniques to sell the La Quinta franchise to developers and owners.
* Travel to target hotel markets to identify La Quinta franchise opportunities.

* Network with all industry specialists (hotel consultants, hotel brokers, general contractors, and competitive sales people) to generate sales leads.

 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

 

MINIMUM EDUCATION:
* Bachelor's Degree required.

 

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
* 2 - 3 years.

 

      MINIMUM SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
* Involves no responsibility or authority for the direction of others.

* Makes recommendations or decisions, which usually affect the assigned unit/division, but may at times affect operations, services, individuals, or activities of others outside of the assigned unit/division.
* Work is broad in scope covering one or more complicated areas.  Policy, procedure, and/or precedent are often created by this position.  A high degree of analytic ability and inductive thinking is required to devise new, non-standard approaches to highly intricate, technically complex problems.
* Makes highly complex decisions; supervision is present to review established departmental and/or divisional objectives.  Independent judgment is required to recommend departmental or divisional objectives, evaluate new approaches to problem solving, and assess changing facts or conditions.
* Responds to and handles unfamiliar situations with limited or no supervisory guidance.
* Has advanced professional skills at the level of a "seasoned" professional.  Requires extensive knowledge of their discipline and a working knowledge of related fields.  Understands information in several unrelated professional disciplines.
* Solves problems that are complex, varied and only mildly related to those seen before.  Simply determining what the problem is requires major individual effort and/or consultation with others within the department.  A high degree of analytical ability and inductive thinking may be required to solve highly intricate, technically complex problems.  Must be able to develop new and nonstandard approaches.
* Completes work that constantly requires the development/enhancement of innovative and complex methods, procedures, policies, products or systems.  Results generally affect the organization as a whole.  May impact the overall competitive position of La Quinta.
* Serves as a project team member working to achieve defined goals. Work is typical in nature with very few situations requiring new solutions.
* Requires regular contacts to carry out programs and to explain specialized matters, or occasional contacts with officials at higher levels on matters requiring cooperation, explanation and persuasion.
* Requires continuing external contacts involving difficult negotiations calling for well-developed sense of timing and strategy and detailed explanation and interpretation of policies, rules and regulations and/or the handling of very difficult personal relationships.

 

PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:

 
* Working conditions of the position are a normal office situation.
* May work alone or closely with others.
* Work is completed sitting at a desk or table with intermittently standing, bending, crouching and stooping.
* May be required to do moderate lifting or carrying.
* Capable of working in a fast paced environment and in stressful situations.
* Must respond to multiple task interruptions and still provide service to internal and external customers in a professional and courteous manner.
* Requires overnight travel 80% of the time.
* May be required to stand and/or sit for long periods of time.
* Requires good hearing.
* Requires good near or distant vision.

Zita Perez
Housekeeping Supervisor - Plano West
4 years & 11/mo on the job

"It's nice working for a company that you can feel proud about.  The hotels are nice and I enjoy working with the people."

Olga Harrison
Front Desk Service Representative - Plano West
6 years on the job

"I really enjoy my job - it's never boring at La Quinta."

Thalia Escalante
Front Desk Service Representative - Plano West
6 months on the job

"At La Quinta, management really cares about you - personally and professionally."
"La Quinta does a great job of training its employees. It's part of the reason I look forward to going to work."

Jaime Nicks
General Manager - Valdosta, VA
2 years & 8 mo w/ La Quinta

"La Quinta does an astounding job at bridging the gap between corporate executives and property level employees - other La Quinta team members are a simple call or email away when needed."