Travel Business Development Manager
WorldVia, United States
Job Description
We are looking for a Travel Business Development Manager to manage our company's travel sales and industry relations team. You will be responsible for promoting travel products to maximize consumer appeal. Developing relationships with vendors will also be part of your duties. An excellent candidate must have extensive experience understanding travel consumer needs and the travel sales environment. They must have a commercial mindset and fully comprehend marketing and sales principles. Exceptional communication skills are also key.
The goal is to increase sales and profitability of the business to drive sustainable growth.
Responsibilities- Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends
- Devise long-term development strategies for product categories
- Foster trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing, promotional opportunities, and quality of services
- Determine the positioning of a product category to maximize visibility
- Liaise with marketing and education teams to determine promotional and educational activities for a product category
- Make forecasts for product demand
- Assume responsibility for budget development and revenue for category
About WorldVia
As part of an exciting and innovative team, you will be working in a startup atmosphere focused on rapid program iteration while being able to leverage the resources of an established and profitable company that is one of the top 50 largest sellers of travel in the United States. With incredible products in development, Travel Quest Network, and its parent company, WorldVia, are on the leading edge of consumer travel marketing and sales.
We are building products and services that thousands of travel business owners and travel advisors use across the country, all supporting our aspiration of being the premier platform for starting and growing a travel business.
Every team member is critical in the decision-making process to ensure we achieve our potential.
Working at WorldVia
At WorldVia, we’re looking for structured thinkers full of passion, ambition, and kindness. We’d love for you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your experience, skills, and interests will help you stand outespecially if your career has taken extraordinary twists and turns. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions and the status quo. Join us.
Our Team Members:
- Are fundamental optimists who believe that no industry compares to the travel industry.
- Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.
- Prioritize quality over speed and speed over scope.
- Desire to work with deeply kind, mission-driven people.
- Strive to make the complex simple.
- Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.
- Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.
- Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.
- Hold no egowhen our customers win, we all win.
We are committed to your professional development and growth as a company.
- You will set your own monthly goals aligned with our ambitious strategy.
- You will have our collective support in achieving significant winsand personal coaching from your manager.
- You will be encouraged to take risks, try new things, and be creative with your work.
- You will have many opportunities to exchange and engage in feedback.
- You will be offered continual chances to stretch yourself and raise your own "bar."
- You will be rewarded for achieving excellence and mastery.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a travel supplier business development manager or a similar role
- Solid leadership experience
- Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods
- Proficient in MS Office
- An analytical mind with a strategic ability
- Excellent communication and people skills
- BSc/BA in business administration, marketing, or a related field
Benefits
- Employer-Sponsored Medical and Dental Insurance with Employee Contribution
- Fully-Funded Life Insurance (1x salary) amp; LTD (Long-Term Disability Insurance)
- Optional Employee-Paid Vision Insurance and STD (Short-Term Disability Insurance)
- 401k with up to 4% Company Match
- Paid Time Off + Company Holidays
- Additional Time Off for Your Birthday and Work Anniversary
- Discount Travel Program