Sales Coordinator

Role summary

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The Sales Coordinator supports the hotel’s sales team by preparing proposals, contracts, reports, presentations, and client correspondence. The role typically requires a degree or diploma in hospitality, business, marketing, or a related field, along with strong administration, communication, and organizational skills. Previous hotel, events, or sales experience is advantageous. Candidates should be confident using Microsoft Office and hotel sales systems, attentive to detail, professional with guests and business partners, and able to manage several deadlines. The position may involve coordinating site inspections, sales calls, appointments, events, and internal follow-up. Flexibility, teamwork, commercial awareness, and a polished service attitude are important expectations.

About the employer

Shangri-La is a luxury hospitality group founded in Hong Kong and known for high-end hotels, resorts, and residences across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and other international markets. Its properties are recognized for personalized service, comfortable accommodation, dining, wellness facilities, and carefully managed guest experiences. In the Philippines, Shangri-La operates prominent city and resort properties, including hotels in Manila, Cebu, and Boracay. The company employs people across guest services, food and beverage, culinary operations, sales, finance, engineering, and administration. Shangri-La generally emphasizes warm hospitality, professional standards, teamwork, cultural awareness, and opportunities for employee development. A Sales Coordinator supports the commercial function by helping maintain client relationships, organizing sales activities, and ensuring accurate communication between customers and hotel departments.

Working in Philippines

The Philippines offers hospitality and tourism opportunities across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Manila provides the widest range of corporate hotel, events, and sales roles, while Cebu, Boracay, Palawan, and other resort destinations offer work connected with leisure tourism. Filipino culture is generally welcoming, relationship-oriented, and family-centered, with English widely used in business and hotels. Lifestyle varies from busy urban living to a slower beach or provincial environment; costs are usually higher in Manila and major resort areas. Foreign applicants normally need an employer-sponsored work permit and appropriate visa, commonly arranged through the hiring company and Philippine authorities. Relocating employees should confirm accommodation, medical cover, transport, taxes, contract terms, and probation conditions before accepting an offer. Local applicants should prepare identification, education records, references, and hospitality experience documents.