Director of Sales

Job description / Role

Summary

To provide leadership in all selling activities within the hotel, working closely with the rooms, food and beverage and other revenue-generating departments to maximise sales through the activities of the sales department and other employees.

Qualifications

Ideally with a university degree or diploma in marketing or hospitality/tourism management. Minimum 2 years work experience as director of marketing, or director of sales in larger operation. Good problem solving, administrative and interpersonal skills are a must.

About the Company

Hyatt was founded by Jay Pritzker in 1957 when he purchased the Hyatt House motel adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport. Over the following decade, Jay Pritzker and his brother, Donald Pritzker, working together with other Pritzker family business interests, grew the company into a North American management and hotel ownership company, which became a public company in 1962. In 1968, Hyatt International was formed and subsequently became a separate public company. Hyatt Corporation and Hyatt International Corporation were taken private by the Pritzker family business interests in 1979 and 1982, respectively. On December 31, 2004, substantially all of the hospitality assets owned by Pritzker family business interests, including Hyatt Corporation and Hyatt International Corporation, were consolidated under a single entity, now Hyatt Hotels Corporation.