Regional Director, Commercial - Holiday Inn/Holiday Inn Express [Remote - Florida]

Provide hands-on sales, marketing, and channel strategy consultation to owners, management companies, hotel Director of Sales, and General Managers for all IHG brands in franchised hotels as the need is identified by Operations Analytics & Insight or other groups at IHG. Develop strategic action plans for hotels to drive measurable, incremental sales revenue. Work with individual hotel teams to identify skill development areas and properly deploy sales and marketing resources. Provide guidance on the appropriate segmentation mix to maximize revenue potential. Identify areas of opportunity in performance and recommend tools and sales training to optimize performance of sales team. Assist in identifying target account and potential for each hotel.

Travel – 50%

Location – Remote: **Candidate must reside in Florida near a major airport**

Your day to day

  • Collaborate with FPS to guarantee a unified and seamless process to hotels and clients. Partner with Franchise Revenue team on sales and revenue strategy.
  • Develop relationships with key counterparts in category 1 management companies.
  • Diagnose root cause of issues at hotel(s), prioritize information and create specific action plans based on data analyses to deliver incremental revenue and improve market share.
  • Analyze and interpret market research data, identify gaps in performance to determine hotel (s) strengths and weakness relative to its competitors.
  • Based on hotel assessment determine appropriate consultation with key stakeholders, management companies, and/or hotels (including GM and Director of Sales), either over the phone or through an in person visit.
  • Develop tactical and strategic sales and marketing plans with the hotel, owner, and/or management company designed to maximize hotel revenues from local, regional, and national markets, to drive hotel-level sales performance, and market share position.
  • Identify potential clients and assist the local sales team in developing account penetration plan.
  • Consult with the local sales team on best practices, IHG sales tools, and brand information to enhance the sales process and penetrate specific market segments and key accounts.
  • Assess current channel strategy and consult with hotels on necessary actions to drive revenue through channel optimization.
  • Advise on future channel strategy to maximize conversion (e.g., web content, photos, channel-based pricing packages)
  • Communicate with FPS and other key internal stakeholders regarding next steps for hotel, owner, and/or management company to execute action plan.

What we need from you

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Hotel Management, Business, or a relevant field of work is preferred. Alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience in hotel operations.
  • 8+ years progressive work-related experience, with at least 5 years in hotel operations management or relevant sales and marketing which includes the development of the development and execution of tactical sales programs (business plans) and regional or multi-hotel corporate experience a plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt consultation based on the complexity of the hotel, from limited service to full service and extended-stay products
  • Ability to quickly build trusted relationships with owners, hotels, and internal IHG stakeholders in a limited amount of time.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of marketing and sales principles, including channel strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret hotel performance data, and diagnose root causes of issues and develop action plans tailored to individual hotel/account needs that drive incremental revenue and market share.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand competition in a market and identify gaps in hotel’s performance to competitors and execute a strategy to drive performance.
  • Demonstrated understanding of hotel’s business mix and the ability to develop segmentation strategies and plans.
  • Demonstrated understanding of daily/weekly/monthly/seasonal demands, booking patterns and pricing. Ability to identify demand generators.
  • Demonstrated ability to advise and assist in development of business travel strategy and execution of the RFP process to improve revenue performance.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and ability to interpret data from resources and systems that provide insight on business travel accounts and travel agencies at top producing hotels in market.
  • Demonstrated experience in working with hotels individually to develop account plans to increase share of business.

Travel – 50%

Location – Remote: **Candidate must reside in Florida near a major airport**

The salary range for this role is $106,000.00 to $115,000.00. This role is also eligible for bonus pay (as applicable). We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, and other benefits to employees.

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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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Important information:

  • The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
  • No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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