Cluster Sales Manager

We're looking for a commercially driven and relationship-focused Cluster Sales Manager to join Hand Picked Hotels, supporting our 3 new hotels in the Cotswold's, Slaughters Country Inn, Slaughters Manor House and Buckland Manor, these 3 distinctive luxury hotels are renowned for offering a warm and authentic Cotswold's experience, combining welcoming hospitality, generous food, and a stunning countryside setting. Working here means becoming part of a friendly and dedicated team, helping to create memorable stays, family getaways, special celebrations, and dining experiences for guests from across the UK and beyond.

This is a proactive outward-facing sales role for someone who loves building relationships, uncovering new opportunities, turning local connections into long-term commercial partnerships and helping to grow revenue across the local market, alongside the day to day management of the Meetings and Events Sales Team. What will the role involve? Working closely with our Director of Sales, General Managers, hotel Sales & Events teams and Revenue colleagues, you'll take ownership of local sales activity across your cluster, with a focus on corporate and group rooms, meetings and conferences, private dining, food & beverage and hotel experiences.

• Developing and managing strong local relationships and key hotel accounts to drive revenue across all segments including luxury leisure.
• Hunting for new business opportunities and building a healthy pipeline of corporate, conference and group business.
• Proactively researching and approaching new contacts using local market insight, Opera, Tableau and platforms such as Linked In.
• Driving awareness and sales of hotel events, dining, leisure experiences and other local opportunities through B2B and B2C relationships.
• Building partnerships with agencies, professional networks, local attractions, destination organisations and brand partners.
• Supporting property Sales & Marketing Plans and activating seasonal sales initiatives within the local market.
• Working with hotels sales and events coordinators and the Central Conference Desk to convert enquiries and maximise opportunities across the wider Hand Picked Hotels collection.
• Monitoring competitor activity and market trends, sharing insight that helps our hotels stay commercially competitive.
• Maintaining accurate sales activity and opportunities within Opera Sales & Catering and delivering agreed KPIs and reporting.
• You'll be visible in the market, regularly meeting clients and representing Hand Picked Hotels as a confident brand ambassador, while also working closely with hotel teams to build a strong sales culture on property including show rounds for weddings and events.
• You will have a proven proactive sales experience, within hotel and meetings & events and luxury leisure, this role may suit a business development manager or sales executive looking for their next career move.
• You will be a natural relationship builder, confident networking with corporate clients, agencies, local and leisure partners and professional networks.
• Be able to demonstrate a strong commercial mindset with the drive to identify, develop and convert new business opportunities.
• It is essential you are highly organised and self-motivated, comfortable balancing multiple hotels, priorities and demanding timescales.
• You'll be confident working collaboratively with General Managers, operational teams, Sales & Events and Revenue colleagues.
• Competent with using CRM and sales systems to manage accounts, opportunities and activity; experience of Opera Sales & Catering and Tableau would be advantageous.
• You'll be curious about your local market and competitors and enjoy using insight to find new ways to grow revenue.
• Be a positive and professional ambassador for Hand Picked Hotels, with the flexibility to travel regularly within your cluster and local market., If you're a proactive sales professional who loves building relationships, finding new business and turning local opportunities into revenue, we'd love to hear from you.
• Hand Picked Hotels is an Equal Opportunities employer. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Hand Picked Hotels was founded in 2001 by owner and Chairman, Julia Hands MBE, and today still remains a family-owned group which has 24 unique luxury country houses and coastal retreats, each hand picked for their individuality. Architecturally distinctive and quintessentially British, every hotel boasts an extraordinary location from Scotland…