Restaurant Sales Manager

$58000.00 per year - $75000.00 per year

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Ruth’s Chris defined The American Steak House in 1965 and continues to set the standard for premier dining and empowering workplace culture. Take this opportunity to join the best of the best and advance your hospitality career by joining a company committed to helping you grow along with us, and great benefits like :

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Management Incentive Performance Plan
• 401 (k) retirement plan with company match
• Generous paid time off
• Training and leadership development program
• Dining discounts

POSITION SUMMARY :

The primary duty of the Restaurant Sales Manager is to grow top line restaurant sales in all Revenue Centers (Bar, Dining Room, Private Dining, and Off-Premises) with a particular focus on growing Private Dining sales through proactive outreach to potential leads, continual prospecting, driving local marketing efforts and responding to inbound leads.

In responding to inbound leads, the Sales Manager is responsible for answering questions about private dining, understanding event objectives and tailoring a solution, upselling, generating Banquet Event Orders, and communicating all event details to the other members of the Restaurant Management Team.

While prospecting and conducting proactive outreach the Sales Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to identify social and business prospects, monitoring the effectiveness of those strategies, customarily and regularly engaging with Guests and prospects outside of the restaurant (e.g., meeting outside the restaurant), closing sales, generating Banquet Event Orders, nurturing past client relationships and supporting the execution of event in the restaurant by greeting the Guests and ensuring Total Guest Indulgence.

This includes actively managing the sales pipeline through prospecting, cold calls, referrals, and internal maximization of resources. Critical to success in this role is a thorough understanding of the market through conducting in-market research and on-going competitive analysis as well as developing strategic local relationships. This individual will work closely with the General Manager and Executive Chef in their restaurant to develop the sales strategy for the restaurant and achieve or exceed sales and margin targets. Individuals in this role can be expected to meet or exceed performance metrics including response times and sales objectives.

The secondary duty of the Sales Manager is to support restaurant operations as needed. In support of those operations, the individual in this role can be expected to occasionally work floor shifts as a Restaurant Manager, conduct facility walkthroughs and line checks, cover Restaurant Manager shifts while other managers are on vacation, and generally support the operations of the restaurant.

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