Cluster Sales Manager

Hand Picked Hotels

Location:

Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, GL54 2HS

Salary:
Competitive base salary plus service charge of(approx. 3.5-4K per year) + excellent colleague benefits
Job Type: Full-time | Permanent | 5 days out of 7

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.

• 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…