Business Development Executive - Hospitality

VANRATH has partnered with a leading boutique hotel to hire a Business Development Executive, based in South Belfast.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic sales team and give your insight into sales strategy and business promotion.

Responsibilities:

• Drive business growth by shaping and delivering targeted sales strategies to meet revenue goals.
• Proactively uncover new opportunities through networking, lead generation, and prospecting.
• Research market trends and potential growth areas to stay ahead of competitors.
• Design and roll out sales campaigns promoting bedrooms, dining, meetings, and event spaces.
• Strengthen partnerships with corporate clients, travel agents, event planners, and local businesses.
• Take an active role in coordinating B2B outreach, site visits, trade fairs, and other sales-focused initiatives.
• Monitor campaign results, analyse key metrics, and produce regular reports to track performance.
• Work in tandem with the marketing executive and revenue manager to ensure promotional activity complements pricing and demand strategies.
• Manage relationships with external associations and affiliations, supporting wider business objectives.

The ideal candidate:

• Experienced in new business, ideally within hospitality.
• Marketing experience (not essential)
• CRM systems experience
• Well presented and ability to present well to the customer
• Familiar with local landscape (hospitality preferred)

This role comes with a highly competitive salary, hotel discounts, staff meals and amazing career development opportunities.

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