Sales Manager

Do you enjoy building strong relationships, commercial results, and a powerful brand?

Are you a commercial driver with vision, courage, and a hospitality heart? Do you get energy from securing new business, expanding relationships, and devising clever commercial opportunities? As a Sales Manager with us, you will get all the space to truly make an impact on our growth, visibility, and results.

As Sales Manager, you are responsible for the commercial growth of our hotel. You develop and realize sales and marketing plans, build strong customer relationships, and know how to capitalize on new business opportunities. You follow market developments closely, are visible in the region, and represent our hotel at professional relationships and national and international networking meetings and events.

With 157 rooms, 5 restaurants, and 16 conference rooms, we have a versatile product at our disposal. From multi-day congresses to business meetings and hotel stays: you know how to position our possibilities optimally in the market commercially.

• Developing and executing commercial sales and marketing plans;

• Drafting account plans and realizing turnover and margin objectives;

• Managing and expanding key accounts and strategic relationships;

• Identifying market developments and commercial opportunities;

• Managing the Marketing & Social Media department;

• Representing the hotel during networking meetings, trade fairs, and events;

• Managing, coaching, and developing the commercial team;

• Monitoring KPIs, budgets, and commercial results;

• Advising the management based on management reports and market insights.

• A key role within the MT with direct influence on commercial results;

• Plenty of room for your own initiative, entrepreneurship, and new ideas;

• Working in a large and dynamic Van der Valk hotel with a strong family feeling;

• Building sustainable relationships and visible growth within a versatile hospitality environment.

• A key role within the MT of our dynamic family hotel;

• A salary classified in job group 9 according to the Horeca CAO salary scale - matching your knowledge, experience, and responsibilities;

• Attention to your personal development through training, education, and growth opportunities;

• Travel allowance of € 0.20 per kilometer (from 10 km);

• Company laptop and phone;

• Regular staff parties or team outings that you won't want to miss;

• Attractive staff discount at all Van der Valk Hotels (stays from €69,- including breakfast);

Functie-eisen

• An experienced commercial professional with HBO or WO working and thinking level;

• Strong in relationship management and networking;

• Enterprising, result-oriented, and commercially minded;

• An inspiring leader who knows how to motivate people;

• Analytically strong and accustomed to managing based on figures;

• Preferably experienced within hospitality, catering, events, or hotel management.

Ready to further shape the commercial growth of Van der Valk Hotel Sassenheim-Leiden?
We are curious about your vision and your story. Send your CV and motivation addressed to Esmée Loef and who knows, we might drink a cup of coffee together soon in our Cherry Lounge!