National Sales Manager - Homebased UK Wide
- Salary and benefits
- Up to £32,000 plus bonus, company car & benefits
- Contract length
- Permanent, Full time
- Locations
Locations
National Sales Manager - Homebased UK Wide is available in the following locations:
- Home-based
- England
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Bristol
- Buckinghamshire
- Aylesbury
- Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge
- Peterborough
- Cheshire
- Chester
- Cleveland
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Durham
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Exeter
- Plymouth
- Dorset
- East Sussex
- Brighton
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Cheltenham
- Gloucester
- Greater London
- Central London
- Greater Manchester
- Manchester
- Hampshire
- Portsmouth
- Southampton
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Humberside
- Hull
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Lancaster
- Preston
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- Liverpool
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Norwich
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- North Yorkshire
- York
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Oxford
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Bath
- Taunton
- South Yorkshire
- Sheffield
- Staffordshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Tyne and Wear
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Coventry
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire
- Bradford
- Halifax
- Leeds
- Wakefield
- Wiltshire
- Salisbury
- Swindon
- Worcestershire
- Redditch
- Worcester
- Wales
- Caernarfonshire
- Cardiganshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Clwyd
- Wrexham
- Denbighshire
- Dyfed
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Cardiff
- Swansea
- Gwynedd
- Mid Glamorgan
- Monmouthshire
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- Aberdeen
- Angus
- Dundee
- Argyll and Bute
- Ayrshire and Arran
- Banffshire
- Berwickshire
- Caithness
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries
- Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- Fife
- Inverness-shire
- Inverness
- Lanarkshire
- Glasgow
- Midlothian
- Edinburgh
- Moray
- Nairn
- Perth and Kinross
- Perth
- Renfrewshire
- Stirling and Falkirk
- Sutherland
- West Lothian
- Western Isles
We have a brand new, fabulous opportunity for a travel industry sales professional to join a multi award-winning travel organisation as a National Sales Manager. Reporting to the Head of Sales, the successful candidate will lead on our client's trade strategy, growing their agency channel in line with company targets. You'll be responsible for developing all new business opportunities from the trade (travel agent accounts) and managing a portfolio of accounts.
The role will cover all duties including, business development, implementation, account management, training, attending road shows, conferences and networking events to promote our client's product to an agency audience. This will, of course be supported by a team back at HQ.
Please note - the role will require extensive travel both around the UK and possible conferences worldwide, and you should anticipate being field based up to four days per week, plus a monthly visit to our client's office based in the West Midlands.
In return, our client can offer a package including a salary of up to £32k, bonus, company car, travel industry incentives and other excellent benefits. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading travel organisation who've been awarded Employer of the Year, UK Holidays Provider of the Year and are Silver Carbon Literate, so if this role is of interest to you, please press the apply online button now!
Role of National Sales Manager:
- To develop and drive trade strategy to deliver future business strategic goals and objectives
- Have a comprehensive plan in place and deliver activity to ensure sales targets are met through partnerships with agents
- Implement commercially advantageous partnership agreements
- Work with the Head of Sales to maximise consortia and other third party relationships
- Manage the sales activity securing activity performance across all Partners
- Work closely with the sales and marketing team and influence from a trade perspective the product strategy and direction
- Build awareness of competitor activity locally and nationally
- Develop close relationships with key tour operators and travel agents on behalf of the company and your clients
- Work closely with marketing on trade marketing plan, advising on activity and content including submission of content for monthly trade enews
- Assist in organising events for clients, ranging from small dinners to larger scale events
- Keeping track of all deliverables outlined in the contract with your clients and ensuring that you are hitting all targets
Skills required for the role:
- Minimum 5 years’ sales experience within the travel trade / travel agency
- Proven history of hitting and exceeding targets
- Strong sales/business development and account management skills
- Confident presentation skills
- Experience with problem solving and customer complaints
- Ability to work on own initiative and to tight timescales when necessary
If you’re interested in learning more about this National Sales Manager role, please press the apply online button now!
Apply online now for National Sales Manager - Homebased UK WideReference: SR/0856
Call: 0161 408 0357 / 0358
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