Business Development Manager - Area Sales Team Mexico
**This role is based in Mexico City, MX**
This is your chance to be part of a General Sales Team that ensures Hilton owners and operators receive the combined benefits of scale, access, competence, and experience.
As a Business Development Manager - Area Sales Team Mexico you will support the team responsible for providing a differentiated selling platform for Hilton's diverse portfolio of brands by being relentlessly motivated to grow market share.
On the Area Sales Team Mexico team reporting to Director - ASOs Caribbean & Latin America you will focus on the development of Group and Business Travel Sales.
If you are looking for a position that provides responsibility for developing new accounts and solicitation of new customer relationship, while maintaining and growing existing relationship with current accounts, then this role is for you.
You will be responsible for identifying and qualifying accounts (BTS & Group) and for the strategy and execution required to identify, research, solicit, and secure new accounts through meaningful customer connections for Hilton Worldwide Sales and our hotels in Mexico.
**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 USD/night
- Saving Funds Plan with company match up to 6 percent
- Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
- Mental health resources including a direct line with psychological support (through medical policy)
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
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.
**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**:
- Directly responsible for soliciting, qualifying, and generating and converting new business for our Mexico hotels.
- Identify and research unmanaged and prospect accounts to spot the potential for growth, estimate the size of the opportunity and growth potential, and help guide personalized conversations with prospective clients - for both group and transient business.
- Responsible for complete qualification of each account to determine at a minimum (number of events, total revenue potential, booking patterns and history, decision-making factors, event, business, and personal needs, resources, and competition).
- Manage overall account planning strategy to facilitate growth.
- Demonstrate an understanding of negotiating business travel sales contracts with corporate accounts, an understanding of the RFP Process, with business travel sales terminology, and business travel sales reporting.
- Demonstrate knowledge of group business, sourcing tools, and group business terminology.
**How you will collaborate with others**:




- Make introductions to clients during sales calls, tradeshows, conventions, and local events.
- Assist hotels with conflict resolution, contract negotiation, support of hotels' business/revenue needs, and closing sales.
- Represent Mexico Area Sales Team and with leadership in familiarization (FAM) trips, travel and domestic tradeshows and industry events to meet with unmanaged accounts and generate new business opportunities.
**What deliverables you will take ownership of**:
- Identify priorities of hotels and maintain strong relationships with them.
- Produce a yearly pre-determined revenue in room, meetings, and food & beverage to the corporation.
- Achieve booked domestic revenue quotas.
Set and achieve sales competencies as discussed between you and your manager.
- Maintain Salesforce/MicroStrategy reports, including call reports, meeting profiles, history, and traces.
- Submit monthly reports, ad hoc reports, and complete projects and deliverables by due dates.
**WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT**
The success in this role will demonstrate itself through the following attributes and skills:
**To fulfill this role successfully, you should demonstrate the following minimum qualifications**:
- Five (5) years of professional experience
- Three (3) years of direct sales experience in travel industry
- Experience with prospecting and account development
- Strong negotiation and sales skills
- Spanish and English fluency (oral and written)
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Web-Ex, MS Teams and Zoom
- Travel up to 25%
**It would be useful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions**:
- BA/BS bachelor's degree
- Experience in Delphi or similar property sale

📌 Business Development Manager - Area Sales Team Mexico (Xico)
🏢 Hilton
📍 Xico