Business Development Manager (Sales)
Felix Floating Restaurant LLC Location: Dubai
Employment type: Permanent
Salary: AED 3,200–10,000/month
Published: 27 Oct
Application deadline: 10 Nov
Key Responsibilities
- Promote Felix Cruise Floating Restaurant and its available dining/cruise packages.
- Generate new business through direct sales, corporate clients, travel agencies, tour operators, hotels, and other potential partners.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective clients.
- Handle customer enquiries, provide quotations, explain packages, and follow up to convert enquiries into confirmed bookings.
- Identify new sales opportunities and actively develop new client accounts.
- Coordinate with the operations/reservations team to ensure smooth execution of confirmed bookings.
- Maintain regular communication with clients and business partners.
- Follow up on pending enquiries, quotations, payments, and confirmations.
- Promote special offers, group packages, corporate events, celebrations, and other promotional activities.
- Attend sales meetings, client visits, networking events, and business development activities when required.
- Maintain accurate records of clients, leads, enquiries, bookings, and sales activities.
- Achieve assigned monthly and quarterly sales targets.
- Monitor market trends and competitor activities and provide feedback to management.
- Ensure all customer information and company business information remains confidential.
- Handle customers professionally and ensure a high standard of customer service at all times.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- Previous experience in sales, tourism, hospitality, restaurants, cruises, events, or travel is preferred.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good negotiation and convincing skills.
- Ability to generate leads and independently develop business.
- Strong customer-service orientation.
- Good knowledge of the UAE tourism and hospitality market is an advantage.
- Ability to work with travel agencies, tour operators, hotels, and corporate clients.
Pay: AED3,200.00 - AED10,000.00 per month
Application Question(s):
- If Yes, then how many years of UAE experience? please specify.
- Do you have experience in Tourism, Hospitality, Restaurants, Cruises or Events specifically in SALES?
Apply if only YES
Work Location: In person
Customer follow-upsPromotional pitchingSales persuasionBusiness development managementInternal stakeholder coordination for service deliveryCustomer records maintenanceRecord keepingCustomer communicationConfidential information handlingCustomer relationship buildingInbound customer supportCustomer booking request managementClient coordinationOrder and booking processingCompetitor trackingInternal stakeholder communicationClear and respectful communicationClient detail updatesOperations coordinationOutbound customer outreachCompetitive analysisIn-person customer serviceClient file managementLead generationChannel developmentReservation confirmation proceduresInbound sales enquiry handlingSales activity loggingSales experience within the hospitality industryLead ConversionConfidential handling of client informationNegotiation with external counterpartiesProfessional communication with external stakeholdersSales quotingClient retentionHospitality industry experiencePartnership buildingIndustry trendsConfidential record keepingClient services