Business Development Manager – British Columbia
ABOUT GLOBUS FAMILY OF BRANDS
Globus family of brands provides the best in vacations for a wide variety of travel styles, goals, and budgets. Spanning over 450 vacations across more than 70 countries. With 90+ years in travel, the award-winning Globus family of brands – consisting of Globus, Cosmos, and Avalon Waterways – creates vacations that offer travelers culture-rich experiences featuring must-see sights, the stories behind the scenes, and countless joy-filled memories across the globe.
THE DEPARTMENT
Travel Agency Sales consists of a Director, Business Development Managers, Project Coordinator and Inside Sales Account Managers. The team works directly with our travel agency channel to increase customer business through national and regional sales and marketing strategies.
Our Field Sales team (Business Development Managers) Field develops new opportunities with strategic business planning that align with individual account needs and national sales and marketing strategies. Inside Sales source new opportunities within the trade channel along with supporting the travel agency community with sales needs, marketing assistance and general inquiries.
THE ROLE
In conjunction Director of Business Development, serve the external National Account partners by generating preference for our brands and increasing sales. Deepen relationships with HQ teams and key agencies and advisors within those accounts. Work with HQ Consortia accounts on programs to promote GFOB and to grow sales mutually.
THE POSITION
The Business Development Manager is responsible for the following results:
- Generating and increasing sales within assigned territory
- Developing
- Monitoring competitor products, services, marketing, and sales strategies
- Communicating advertising and sales promotion programs to assigned accounts to encourage implementation of programs that will generate sales, such as co-op advertising, direct mail, and consumer shows
- Recommending changes regarding revenue opportunities and potential sales volume, and changes in products, services, and policy
- Achieving established financial objectives
- Troubleshooting account problems using resources available
- Deliver agency level sales reporting as needed to keep accounts informed of their sales progress
- Developing and maintaining relationships with the Inside Sales team to fulfill customer needs
- Keeping management informed by submitting activity and result reports for all sales activity, budget and territory business plans
- Expressing ideas for process improvements to increase flexibility, reduce administrative costs, and increase interactivity with customers
- Representing and presenting at agency trainings, multi-supplier shows and consumer shows.
- Designing PowerPoint presentations for webinars and trainings
- Contributing to a team effort by accomplishing related results or projects
EDUCATION
The preferred candidate will hold a Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university; or three+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
EXPERIENCE PREFERRED
The preferred candidate has noteworthy experience in the following areas:
- Developing new business
- Managing sales accounts (knowledge of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and tools)
- Leisure travel product knowledge, specifically Globus and Cosmos products, services, and benefits
- Business acumen (business knowledge, competitor awareness, organization strategies)
- Having bottom-line accountability
- Business process intelligence (understanding internal processes to resolve issues and ability to continuously improve key business processes)
- Presenting easily and effectively to make the sale and educate business partners
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of social media
EOE
- While performing this job, it will require: Eight (8) hours or more a day of sitting; walking; standing; bending; answering the telephone; entering data into the computer; retrieving data from the computer or analyzing data from reports. This role has up to 50% travel required, which includes evenings and weekends.
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