We currently have an exciting opportunity for a driven and professional individual to join our accomplished team at Oaks Perth Hotel as the Conference Sales and Events Manager. 

In this newly created position, you will play a key role in coordinating the operations of conferences, events, weddings and social functions. You will be responsible for managing the entire sales process, from planning and coordination to execution, ensuring effective communication both internally and externally. 

While this role will primarily centre around managing conferences and events at Oaks Perth Hotel initially, it presents the exciting prospect of expanding to offer support to Minor Hotels other properties across WA in future, offering extensive opportunities for career advancement. 

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Strengthen engagement with existing MICE partners for Oaks Perth Hotel
• Actively seek out new business opportunities that will contribute to increased account production for MICE at Oaks Perth Hotel
• Implementing strategies to drive occupancy and maximise revenue, ensuring maximum revenue in accordance with the conference marketing and strategy plan
• Maintain awareness of market rates for events and conference packages, ensuring the packages are competitive
• Organise and coordinate weddings, events, conferences, functions and groups, providing exceptional customer service at all times 
• Coordinate with Food and Beverage operations, ensuring a seamless level of service for all events 
• Liaise with vendors on event related matters, acting as the primary point of contact 
• Work closely with wider sales team to maximise opportunities, ensuring the appropriate Account Manager is including in correspondence and updated throughout the quoting process
• Attend local trade events to increase brand awareness of Minor Hotels

The Regional Sales Manager (RSM), APJ is a pivotal member of our field sales operations within the Cognizant Workday Practice.  You will drive our growth by focusing on generating new revenue and developing strategic plans to identify, prioritise and close key opportunities within the Australian market, with a particular emphasis on Mid-Enterprise Clients.

Working alongside a talented team of professionals, you will play a crucial role in guiding Australian businesses through their journey towards HCM and Financial transformation.  The RSM will build strong partnerships with our clients, lead our understanding of their objectives and co-ordinate our positioning of proposed consulting and delivery services. 

The RSM will lead the negotiation of contracts and effectively collaborate with internal teams to drive revenue growth and ensure client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage deal cycles across all clients.

• Actively update pipeline to ensure management is aware of deal flow.

• Maintain a 3X pipeline of deals to quota.

• Work with company counterparts to source and execute deals.

• Engage with clients and prospects to provide services.

Duties and Tasks

• Develop and plan a sales strategy, effectively positioning the Company’s services.

• Cultivate relationships with Workday personnel and develop in-person relationships with all in-region field offices.

• Develop and maintain relationships with Workday Account Executives and Business Development Managers.

• Run complex sales cycles managing prospects and internal team members.

• Organise and drive responses to RFPs and RFIs.

• Set strategy for deal success.

• Manage multiple, concurrent deal cycles maintaining accurate and timely client, pipeline, and forecast data.

• Manage a quarterly sales quota and maintain a 3X pipeline of quota.

• Provide support for marketing activities and events.

• Work with the internal Delivery team to develop estimates for work and position us ahead of Cognizant competitors.

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.

About Us

G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.

Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.

With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.

Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.

If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.

About the Role

The Customer Service & Sales Manager (Known internally as Inside Sales Manager, Australia)  will concentrate on the sales success of the Inside Sales Team. Your focus will be to motivate and develop the regional hybrid team ensuring sales targets are exceeded on a monthly basis.  The successful candidate must also maintain a fun, culturally rich environment where people are happy to work.

What you'll be doing

People:

• Ongoing people development

• Team performance management and reporting

• Provide direction to regional management team

• Conduct Team meetings 

• Drive Company culture and values 

• Maintain an engaged and motivated sales team

• Recruitment - Review Application Assessments and Recommendations

• Performance Management of under - performing staff as required.  

• Team coaching, support, annual performance reviews

Sales Leadership 

• Ensure monthly sales targets are achieved.

• Ensure team and individual KPI’s are consistently met. 

• Management of team incentive program

• Management of Rewards Program

• Training Recommendations and Updates 

Operations    

• Workday Management

• Scheduling 

• Team Incentives Management 

• Team Engagement 

• Future planning

What do we offer you?

• Competitive salary commensurate with the role

• Competitive benefits package 

• Birthday day off

• Vacation time for you to recharge

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• Learning and growth opportunities

• Employee Resource Groups

*Applicable based on location*

G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.