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Senior Catering Sales Manager - Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile

Hilton

Chicago, ILFull-time$70–72K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$70–72K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Catering Sales Manager represents the hotel to prospective group clients and manages sales from initial inquiry through account fulfillment. The role develops strategies to meet revenue and room-night goals, analyzes sales performance, coordinates service delivery across departments, and supervises and coaches team members. Hilton describes its hospitality-focused culture and values, including integrity, leadership, teamwork, ownership, and urgency.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Group SalesLead QualificationSales NegotiationStrategic Sales PlanningSales Performance AnalysisTeam SupervisionCoaching

Full job description

Job Identification: 229126

Job Category: Sales and Marketing

Job Schedule: Full time

Salary 70,000-72,000

Equal Opportunity Employer EOE, including disability/vets

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our Hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a Senior Catering Sales Manager , you’re not just generating and managing group sales – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.

Here's what you'll do during a typical day:

  • Represent the hotel to prospective clients: Serve as the primary point of contact for customers seeking group rooms, meeting space, and food and beverage services

  • Drive new business opportunities: Respond to inquiries, initiate outreach, qualify leads, and solicit potential clients through proactive sales efforts

  • Manage the full sales cycle: Conduct site visits, entertain clients, prepare proposals, determine rates, negotiate contracts, and service accounts through fulfillment

  • Develop strategic sales plans: Create and execute strategies to achieve or exceed revenue and room night goals, adjusting based on performance and market conditions

  • Analyze sales performance: Evaluate lost business reports and identify opportunities to strengthen conversion and competitiveness

  • Support exceptional service delivery: Collaborate across departments to coordinate the fulfillment of contracted services and uphold the highest standards of client satisfaction

  • Inspire and develop the team: Supervise and support team members, monitor performance, provide coaching, and foster a positive and productive work environment

What It Takes to Make the Stay

At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:

A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality . Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership . A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now , bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.

Join an Award-Winning Workplace Culture

At Hilton, we don’t just deliver exceptional experiences for our guests—we build an exceptional workplace for the Team Members who make it all possible. As a global leader in hospitality, we’ve welcomed more than 3 billion guests worldwide, all while staying true to our founding vision: to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.

Our award-winning culture has earned us repeated recognition on the World’s Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune. With our suite of world-class brands (https://www.hilton.com/en/brands/) , and a company-wide commitment to providing the best stay for every guest, we’re setting new standards for the future of travel.

Whether you’re starting your career or exploring something new, Hilton supports your journey every step of the way. Come for the job, stay for the career—and help us make every stay a little more magical.

Curious about life at Hilton? Explore our Careers Blog (https://jobs.hilton.com/blogs) to see why we’re more than a great place to stay—we’re a great place to work.

How this job compares

Set against the 6,347 open Sales Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$70–72K/yr
  • Illinois median$88–129K/yr151 salary ranges
  • US median$95–140K/yr3,235 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $71K, is 35% below the Illinois median midpoint ($110K) — in the lowest quarter of Sales Manager salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 220 open Sales Manager jobs in Illinois and 6,347 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Sales Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (4,301 postings).
Education
760 of the 6,347 open Sales Manager jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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