Catering Sales Manager - Embassy Suites by Hilton South Bend at Notre Dame

Excited to announce an amazing opportunity for a Catering Sales Manager to join the Embassy Suites by Hilton South Bend at Notre Dame team! This role involves selling social groups/events with attendees ranging from 20-250 on peak. The best part? You'll be working for a Hilton Corporate Managed Hotel and an amazing leader! Don't miss out on this chance to take your career to the next level.

What will I be doing?

As a Catering Sales Manager, you would be responsible for representing the hotel's services and facilities to prospective clients and customers in the hotel's continuing effort to deliver outstanding guest service and financial profitability. Specifically, you would be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

• Target and solicit new catering business through lead generation, face-to-face prospecting, and relationship referrals
• Design, develop, and sell creative catered events
• Develop existing business to uncover additional revenue opportunities
• Maximize revenue by upselling packages and creative food & beverage
• Respond to incoming catering opportunities
• Perform site visits, both scheduled and on-demand
• Work closely with banquet management to ensure all event details are communicated
• Negotiate and close contracts

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The Benefits

We support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to innovative programs and benefits.

• 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 144 hours of PTO 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
• Complimentary parking

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