Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Virgin Voyages is seeking a bold and brilliant Business Development Manager to engage with travel agency partners and promote their brand. The role focuses on building strong relationships, developing creative sales strategies, and ensuring a positive experience for partners in the travel industry.
Responsibilities
- Identify and nurture relationships with like-minded travel partners whose customers are sure to love the Virgin Voyages experience
- Establish warm and loving relationships with those partners so that we will be a brand of choice for them
- Think creatively and with heart about the best way to reach and support your partners, even if it’s never been done before
- Build smart sales plans for your accounts to help them (and you) over achieve
- Introduce the brand to travel partners in a variety of ways including special events and unique opportunities to experience our beautiful lady ships first hand
- Be prepared to do business on their terms
- Be able solve complex challenges through provocative thinking
- Always be interested in the success of your colleagues, share proven strategies and tactics that help everyone win
- Help clear obstacles for your partners and work to help solve them creatively
- Establish and maintain excellent relationships across the rest of the business too
- Be an enforcer of integrity in the way we conduct ourselves and live up to our brand values everyday
- Do you part to make sure that we are generally brilliant to do business with
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant sales experience
- An in-depth knowledge of the cruise market and its sales strategies across a variety of segments
- An appreciation for how paramount customer and partner experiences are for Virgin to be successful
- A proven performance track record of sales results
- An ability to think outside of industry norms
- A passion to deliver on future results
- Creativity and a desire to change things for the better
- An energy that lights us up
- A sense of unbridled optimism
- Minimum 5 years in travel or hospitality sales preferred
- Existing, deep bonds with key travel partners a plus
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