We are a rapidly growing entrepreneurial hotel management company dedicated to creating value for our team members, our guests, our owners, and our communities.
   
If you are committed to delighting guests, playing well with others, and thriving under pressure, we offer exciting opportunities for you to perform a key role in our hotels' growth.
   
Why Portfolio?
   
Yes, Portfolio specializes in managing unique, boutique-style destination resorts and significant urban hotels in domestic and international markets.
   
Yes, Portfolio provides entrepreneurial, creative, and financially aware management for hotels that share a defined style and position in their respective marketplace.
   
Yet perhaps the best indication of how we work is our twelfth Compass Point standard by which we operate:
   
"We find ways to live, laugh, and learn as we do our best to provide stellar service to our guests. We realize we need to enjoy the time we spend together, because life is too short not to have a good time along the way."
   
Come join us!

You are

An extremely hard-working collaborative leader who brings a successful hotel sales management track record, strong organization skills, flexibility, and poise to your position as Director of Sales.   You thrive on dealing with ambiguity and crazy challenges.

We are

A gracious inn located in North Dayton with a vibrant future offering an exciting opportunity for you to play a key role in our hotel's and company's growth.

You can expect from us

* Independence to make things happen
* High visibility and access to corporate senior management
* Competent, hard working and responsive team members who will sweat the details
* A fast paced work environment

We need you

To develop and implement the hotel's total sales effort, including securing new accounts, penetrating existing accounts (this means you'll be selling), and executing sales and marketing strategies to maximize the profitability of the hotel.

To play major role in yield management to increase ADR, occupancy, and REVPAR

To develop and manage the departmental budget to ensure that actual sales meet or exceed established revenue plan

To accurately report and analyze variances/projections to determine appropriate strategies

To take the lead in building interdepartmental relations

To develop and maintain beneficial relationships with representatives of local community organizations and corporations

 

 

You’ll possess the following

Excellent communication skills with the ability to sell, negotiate, and influence prospects, existing clients, hotel guests, and colleagues

Advanced knowledge of sales and hospitality principles and practices

Results-oriented writing techniques and strategies for correspondence, i.e., memos, letters, reports, proposals, contracts

Appropriate and accurate grammar and punctuation in written communication

Ability to maximize impact, maintain interest, and establish a rapport with an audience when conveying information

Ability to proactively prioritize needs and effectively manage time and resources

At least five years' experience as a director of sales in successive positions of growth

Willingness to work comfortably and effectively in an environment of uncertainty and change

Background in using e-commerce to build appropriate business for your hotel

Capacity to show respect for and sensitivity to differences among people

Four-year degree or equivalent

English is a must; other languages are a plus

Basic math skills

Ability to write a dynamic cover letter that sells you...