Hotel Business Development Officers at Apata & Ascott Limited

Apata & Ascott Limited, is currently seeking to employ smart and suitably qualified candidate with adequate knowledge of trends and business acumen in Nigeria's hospitality sector, to fill the position below:

Job Title: Hotel Business Development Officer

Location: Lagos

Duties and Responsibilities

• Servicing and managing existing customers.
• Follow up sales leads and prospects.
• To drive and generate new accounts and establish new customer base
• Ensure total coverage of all assigned customer base to maximize all opportunities on a scheduled basis.
• Conduct occasional market review to ascertain the level of demand for the hotel’s products and services
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date sales data and follow up on outstanding premiums and renewals
• Maintain and develop good relationship with customers through personal contact and monitor feedback
• Assist with other relevant duties as may be assigned towards achieving set sales objectives
• Continually drive existing and identify new markets for the hotel.
• Support with office administrative and marketing functions within the hotel/
• Serve as the bridge/intermediary between the hotel and its current market and potential markets.
• Monitor competitors' activities and products towards improving the organization's market share.
• Identity opportunities for improvement in the volume of sales and market share
• Continually improve marketing skills, knowledge and ability
• Identify opportunities for product development and process improvement
• Update regularly knowledge of Larex Hotels International. business, products and services

Competence Requirements
Core Skills:

• Business intelligence
• Marketing skills
• Collaboration
• Communication & Inter personal

Skills:

• Research & Strategy
• Negotiation & Persuasion
• A deep understanding of marketing principles
• FPC/personal productivity tools - Words for windows, Excel, and PowerPoint ,Mailing Social media marketing/Google
• SEOs

Generic Skills:

• Critical and analytical reasoning
• Creativity/Innovation
• Resilience Tenacity and Integrity
• Initiative and pro active
• Goal oriented
• Positive attitude and energetic
• Ability to work under pressure
• Specification/Qualification
• Qualification:
• A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration or any related field from a reputable institution
• Minimum Experience
• Two (2) years experience as a corporate marketer with good knowledge of hospitality industry trends.
• Professional Membership
• Membership of relevant professional association is advantageous

Application Closing Date
16th June, 2016.

Interview and Assessment Date
6th June, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: bukola@apataandascott.com