***The location for this position is virtual/remote***

Part of the Americas Hilton Worldwide Sales Luxury Team with a specialty in luxury sales that ensures Hilton Luxury Brand owners and operators receive the combined benefits of Luxury expertise, access, competence, and experience. As the Sales Director, Luxury Business Development, you will oversee the overall strategy to develop new accounts and business opportunities for our growing portfolio of Hilton Luxury Brand properties. You will leverage your luxury sales expertise to identify and analyze unmanaged accounts for luxury revenue potential, solicit and convert new business opportunities in collaboration with our Hilton Luxury Brand properties. On the Luxury Hilton Worldwide Sales team reporting to the Managing Director of Luxury Sales - Americas, you will focus on driving revenue and maximizing sales performance to support the growth of our Hilton Luxury Brand properties.

 HOW WE WILL SUPPORT YOU

Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:

• Go Hilton travel program: 110 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
• Hilton Shares: Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
• Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
• Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Learn more about the rest of our benefits

At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities and programs through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate. 

**Available benefits may vary depending upon terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of the plans.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.

What your day-to-day will be like:

• Identify new luxury group customers and generate business opportunities from un-managed Hilton accounts including all market segments, end-users and potential third-party partners.
• Qualify potential customers through 3rd party resources, solicitation efforts, social media, industry events and email.
• Manage leads through the sales pipeline from unmanaged accounts in collaboration with luxury property sales teams to maximize conversion.
• Develop and implement business development strategies to achieve growth and organizational goals.
• Develop new hotel customer engagement events targeting un-managed accounts with qualified luxury group revenue opportunity.
• Attend new networking events and trade shows to build relationships and generate leads from unmanaged accounts.
• Lead our Hilton Luxury Brand Education series targeting new customers.
• Organize high touch personalized FAM trips focused on new business acco