Job offer: Assistant Director of Sales & Marketing

Song Saa Private Island is Cambodia’s first private island resort, setting new benchmarks for luxury and sustainability. This award-winning five-star property has 24 luxurious villas built with sustainable materials and the most profound respect for the environment.

JOB BRIEF

Song Saa Private Island is seeking a skilled, motivated and multi-lingual Assistant Director of Sales & Marketing to join the Phnom Penh office.

Duties

• Proactively prospecting new accounts and partnerships for Song Saa, following the sales process through to conversion into ‘producing’ accounts.
• Coordinating the activities of the sales with Island team.
• Manage key accounts/key prospects to ensure maximum yield in line with budgetary objectives.
• Attend international trade fairs, ensuring the Song Saa brand is promoted and appropriate networking is initiated.
• To arrange and manage familiarization trips as and when necessary.
• Develop and design attractive offers and packages for guests and travel agents.
• Monitor and analyse sales results.
• Ensure accurate and effect communication with the reservation and marketing teams.
• Drive total hotel revenue and take ownership for the achievement of budgeted revenue streams.
• Understand the competitive luxury property landscape and feeder market dynamics and changing customer needs.
• Ensure sales related activities support customer satisfaction, retention and new business development goals.
• Developing and managing PR and digital marketing strategies for Song Saa.
• Design and implementation of the quarterly and annual sales plans.
• Lead the global contracting process with all travel partners.
• Develop departmental SOPs and conduct various sales related training with the team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Sales and 2 years in a similar role or as an Asst. Director of Sales & Marketing selling resorts in Asia Pacific.
• Deep knowledge of UK and European travel trade and the regional travel markets.
• Proven leadership and team working skills.
• Excellent grooming standards.
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to persuade and influence.
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills.
• Extensive knowledge of revenue management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
• Excellent working knowledge of Opera imperative.
• High degree of proficiency in written and spoken English.