Business Development Manager (Travel Trade)

Salary 35,000 + quarterly performance-based bonus + company vehicle

Field based across designated UK region

Do you thrive on creating memorable, passionate and professional interactions with your customers?

Are you results focused, ensuring that your accounts are performing to the max?

Can you educate and motivate our trade customers to #ThinkTitan in their customer interactions?

At Titan Travel, we are recruiting for 2 Business Development Managers to work across our North & Central regions. Could this be you!?

It is an exciting time to join our Trade team at Titan, we have an ambitious growth plan and redefined strategy but also want to keep the customer at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a true ambassador to be out in the field to ensure Titan Travel is our travel agent partners first choice to deliver on our mission of being the most trusted touring partner.

Titan Travel is a brand owned and operated by Saga Travel Group (UK) Limited, effectively making them sister brands. Saga acquired Titan Travel in 2009, and while they are now part of the same group, Titan Travel continues to operate as a separate, though integrated, entity within the Saga Travel business.

This is a field based role, where roughly 80% of your time will be on the road meeting with accounts. There will be the expectation that you will need to work flexible hours around industry and trade events.

As one of our Business Development Managers your responsibilities will be split across 3 key pillars Strategic Account Support, Key Account Management and Training & Engagement.

Responsibilities will include:

Acting as an ambassador for Titan Travel and demonstrate an exceptional level of product / sector knowledge ensuring the brand has an extremely high profile.

Working in partnership with the Trade Success Manager to create, implement and own your call plan to maximise reach in your region.

Identify trade partner training needs and create a plan to address them (including FAM trips)

Attending all trade events in your region including (but not limited to) TIPTO, ATAS & Travel Gossip.

Driving participation in Titan Rewards to drive upsell and focus on business priorities.

Helping develop training plans alongside Strategic & Business Development Sales Managers.

Analysing your regions weekly, monthly and quarterly account activity and performance, spotting opportunities to improve performance and put in place tangible, measurable action plans that drive results.

Driving trade incentives and campaigns

Monitoring and reporting on competitor activity in the touring and wider holiday sectors

Delivering on your promises and be the most trust partner to your accounts

Ensuring that agreed sales and marketing activity is implemented, tracked and monitored to assess ROI

Structuring workload effectively to ensure maximum time with accounts and all administration and support activities are completed effectively and to time.

Saga Values: Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special

Our ideal Business Development Manager will have a background in sales and account management. Experience within a travel agency would be desirable but we are open to considering candidates across the wider travel industry.

Based on the field nature of the role you will need to hold a full driving licence.

Skills required include:

Exceptional people management skills, particularly in a flexible/hybrid working environment

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly form relationships

Sales driven and commercially savvy

An eye for identifying commercial opportunities, and the skills to translate this into results

Ability to partner with other stakeholders and challenge where necessary

Innovative thinker constantly looking to improve ways of working

Engaging and inspiring individual, influencing internal and external stakeholders at all levels

Cost focused, with ability to manage multiple budget lines

At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave - 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Monthly commission dependent on performance
• Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform