Durban North: Meeting & Events Sales Manager (Destination Hotel) – Durban North posted by HotelJobs

About the Role

Destination Hotel, located in Durban North, is seeking a highly skilled Meeting & Events Sales Manager to join their team. As the dedicated sales manager for conferences, meetings, events, and weddings, you will proactively drive profitable growth across these segments, while acting as the single point of contact for clients and wedding couples from first enquiry through to final handover to operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive profitable growth across meetings, conferences, events, and weddings
• Act as the single point of contact for clients and wedding couples
• Proactively source and convert meetings, conferences, events, and wedding enquiries
• Manage direct wedding enquiries, working closely with couples from initial enquiry to confirmation
• Build relationships with corporates, NGOs, government departments, facilitators, planners, and wedding service providers
• Conduct site inspections and represent the properties professionally
• Manage all enquiries and RFPs end-to-end
• Act as the single point of contact for corporate clients and wedding couples
• Own all pre-event and pre-wedding planning and coordination, including function and wedding sheets, schedules and timelines, guest room allocations, catering and beverage requirements, AV decor and special requests
• Ensure all events and weddings are fully scoped, costed, and confirmed in advance
• Deliver a clear, documented handover to the operations team so execution is seamless
• Maintain a forward-looking sales pipeline across all segments
• Achieve agreed revenue, room-night, and profitability targets
• Track enquiry-to-conversion ratios and repeat business

Requirements

• Grade 12
• Formal hospitality qualification or experience in sales, conferencing, events, or wedding sales
• Experience dealing directly with wedding couples is a strong advantage
• An existing professional network within the corporate, events, or wedding industry would be advantageous
• Calm, confident, and emotionally intelligent
• Highly organised and detail-oriented
• Commercially astute with a clear understanding of yield and margin
• Able to manage multiple events and weddings simultaneously
• Self-driven and comfortable working independently

Qualifications

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