About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, awarded Two Michelin Keys and recognized as a Forbes Five-Star resort for eight consecutive years, is an idyllic beachfront retreat on Vietnam's culturally rich central coast. Set across 35 hectares of lush tropical gardens with more than 4,500 coconut palms and a pristine one-kilometre stretch of Ha My Beach, the resort offers effortless access to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Hoi An Ancient Town, My Son Sanctuary, and the Imperial City of Hue. Conveniently located just 30 minutes from Da Nang International Airport and 15 minutes from Hoi An, the resort seamlessly blends cultural discovery, world-class luxury, and beachfront serenity.

JOB FUNCTIONS:

People Leadership Skills
1.    The ability to recruit, select and familiarize sales department personnel with the Resort and their functions.
2.    The ability to train and guide sales department personnel in the performance of their duties as to specific position responsibilities, performance techniques, reporting procedures, etc.
3.    The ability to conduct performance evaluations and follow up with sales department personnel.
4.    The ability to perform all supervisory functions to effectively and efficiently manage the personnel assigned.
a.    The ability to identify and control work relationships, areas of accountability and performance of the personnel assigned.
b.    The ability to determine, in conjunction with the Director of Marketing, the standards of performance as basis to review progress of personnel assigned.
c.    The ability to ensure proper training of assigned personnel
d.    The ability to foster a cooperative and harmonious working climate conductive to maximum employee morale and productivity.
e.    The ability to develop individuals for future advancement.
5.    The ability to assume responsibility for the Marketing Department in the absence of the Director of Marketing and Director of Sales.

Business Development
1.    Building solid relationships with clients, travel partners, vendors and distributors, as well as sales and marketing teams.
2.    Developing in-depth knowledge of Resort offerings to identify profitable business opportunities.
3.    Researching emerging trends, directing marketing efforts by presenting market research to Director of Marketing and Director of Sales and suggesting strategies to expand market research.
4.    Assessing marketing and sales as well as supplier and vendor operations and recommending improvements as needed.
5.    Preparing all documentation required for requests for proposals (RFPs).
6.     Developing and managing strategic partnerships to grow business.
7.    Presenting business or marketing opportunities to company executives and management.
8.    Understand the Marketing Plan and Budget for the resort as necessary. 
9.    Strong focus on new business development.    

Maximizes Hotel Revenue
1.    The ability to direct sales activities of the hotel to achieve budgeted goals.
2.    The ability to monitor and identify current and future business trends to insure profitable sales in periods of low and high demand.
3.    The ability to negotiate and achieve maximum revenue/profit potential while satisfying client's needs.
4.    The ability to assume the responsibility for leading and directing the hotel's group and individual room sales activity.
5.    The ability to be proactive and creative in developing sales and marketing solutions.

Marketing
1.    The ability to assist in the development of the annual marketing plan.
2.    The ability to ensure projects are executed for all market areas as stated in the hotel marketing plan with emphasis on increasing sales and profitability.
3.    The ability to review market analysis and determine client needs, occupancy potential, rates desired, etc.
4.    Understand Four Seasons Management Operating Standards (MOS) for Sales and Marketing.  Carry out responsibilities in line with these standards. 
5.    The ability to use and take advantage of company provided Marketing "Tools."
6.    The ability to analyze sales statistics against booked vs. consumed business.

Sales
1.    The ability to actively sell and manage his/her key accounts and territory as #1 priority.
2.    The ability to conduct story telling site inspections highlighting key resort USPs
3.    The ability to negotiate and confirm sales.
4.    The ability to achieve personal quota.
5.    The ability to lead by setting the example of utilizing approved methods of handling sales accounts.
6.    The ability to contact customers in-house to promote good will and foster additional business, repeat bookings or referrals to other Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.
7.    The ability to demonstrate leadership through drive and effort in the area of sales territory development.
8.    The ability to foster good communication and work productively with all Worldwide Sales Offices.
9.    The ability to develop a program resulting in the achievement of annual departmental goals for leads sent to other Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.
10.    The ability to insure that the sales staff sells all hotel products.
11.    The ability to enhance the hotel's community image and stay abreast of the competition, new developments and sales methods and techniques in the hotel industry to maximize sales and profitability.

Managing Sales Activities
1.    The ability to assist the Director of Marketing in establishing and directing the development of annual sales goals; ensures goals and incentive programs are fully understood and implemented in the hotel.
2.    The ability to direct the reporting and appraising of results against planned objectives; coordinates sales staff activities; takes appropriate action to maximize sales and affect need periods.
3.    The ability to control data, availability, and rate on guest rooms and function space.
4.    The ability to establish group room night and average rate goals based on marketing plan and overall objectives.
5.    The ability to manage transient and group room commitments to ensure proper market mix.
6.    The ability to manage function space allocation for group and catering bookings based on established guidelines and procedures.
7.    The ability to review sales and catering work files to ascertain a proper exchange of information between hotel and client.
8.    The ability to support Sales Managers by participating in solving problems of guest room and function space conflicts, salvaging of accounts which have threatened cancellation.
9.    The ability to ensure communication of Sales Managers between other Department Heads is maintained to maximize the guest experience and hotel profitability.

10.    The ability to coordinate special sales activities, promotions, sales trips, trade shows, etc.
11.    The ability to keep immediate supervisor promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance coming to his/her attention so prompt corrective action can be taken where appropriate.
12.    The ability to perform all responsibilities in a timely and efficient manner, following established policy and projecting a favorable image of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts to achieve objectives, public recognition and acceptance.
13.    The ability to coordinate and implement all sales department action plans.
14.    The ability to prepare reports as requested to develop a more informative data base for improved management decision making and critical evaluation of work activities.

Internal Communications
15.    The ability to oversee the coordination of various department's activities related to booked business to ensure customer satisfaction and hotel profitability.
16.    The ability to conduct and/or attend meetings to maintain favorable working relationships among employees and to promote maximum morale, productivity and efficiency.

Hotel Systems
1.    The ability to utilize computerized operational systems (Golden Sales & Catering, Sales Desk, Varicent, Meeting Broker, Cvent, Opera, PowerPoint, Excel, Word etc...)
2.    The ability to understand, utilize and supervise the installation of automated sales and reservations systems.
3.    The ability to set up and implement or follow existing systems to ensure that sales programs achieve projected results.

Business Involvement
4.    The ability to assist in the preparation of the budget and ensure the department operates within cost constraints, i.e. direct selling costs, etc.
5.    The ability to be continuously be aware of current and forecasted financial/business performance.
6.    The ability to coordinate sales activities with other business activities and other divisions.

"Generic Skills"
1.    The ability to actively contribute names of qualified Sales and Marketing candidates to the Job Bank.
2.    The ability to be a sound analyzer and problem solver
3.    The ability to be a "do-er", implementer, and action taker
4.    The ability to develop and use good business acumen and be a good "business operator."
5.    The ability to be vigilantly attentive to detail, monitor quality, and be obsessively service oriented.
6.    The ability to be versatile, flexible, show stress management, manage criticism, and manage conflict effectively.
7.    The ability to be a Team Player.
8.    The ability to have interpersonal sensitivity.
9.    The ability to be a Public Ambassador for Resort and Four Seasons Hotels.
10.    The ability to respond properly in any hotel emergency or safety situation.
11.    The ability to perform other tasks or projects as assigned by hotel management and staff.