B2B Sales Manager - Business Development

Our client is a successful and dynamic PR and marketing company specialising in the long haul travel markets. Due to expansion they are now seeking an experienced travel B2B Sales Manager to join their award winning team.

The Travel Sales Manager shall be managing the UK Sales and Marketing of a prestigious hotel brands based in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and Middle East.

This exciting B2B sales manager role entails the following duties:

- Responsibility for delivering growth in room nights and revenue from the UK & Ireland markets

- Managing all trade relationships, both leisure and corporate

- Managing an annual sales calendar of planned activity, sales calls, training and promotional activity

- Pitching for new accounts through personal visits, presentations, and on-going correspondence

- Analysing sales figures and suggesting suitable strategies for growth

- Working to agreed sales calls targets

- Liaising with airlines and tourism authorities to generate leads

- Working co-operatively with tour operators on marketing campaigns

- Organising in-market sales visits, educational trips and promotional events

- Planning and attending trade shows

- Delivering extensive sales training

To be considered for this role you must have business to business sales experience within the travel industry in leisure or corporate travel and familiar with Asia, ideally educated to degree level. The sales manager must have excellent communication skills and be commercially-minded, a strong negotiator and confident at presenting with a proven ability to grow business in a B2B environment.

In return, you will be offered a lucrative salary, bonus, career progression, pension, chance to travel to some high end luxury hotels along with the opportunity to work for a luxury and forward thinking marketing and PR company.

Give your career a boost and send us your CV today.