Account Director

Travel Trade Recruitment Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury travel firm in the Greater London area is seeking an experienced Account Director to manage key clients within their luxury travel portfolio. The successful candidate will have a solid background in luxury travel industry sales, focusing on maintaining and promoting client relationships. Responsibilities include organizing client visits and events, managing sales reports, and maintaining an up-to-date CRM system. This role is crucial for optimizing client relationships and driving sales within the UK and European markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing sales relationships within the luxury travel sector.
• Ability to conduct and execute events, roadshows, and client visits.
• Strong reporting skills for client management.

Responsibilities

• Manage International sales clients within a destination cluster.
• Promote and support sales clients in the UK and wider European markets.
• Organize and execute clients' UK market visits and sales activities.
• Daily management of relationships with relevant clients and PR teams.
• Conduct monthly and bi-monthly reporting on client activities.
• Maintain the in-house CRM system with accurate sales data.

Skills

Luxury travel industry sales experience

Relationship management

CRM system management

Job description

A new opening for an Account Director is available this role is to manage some of our signature clients within our luxury sales and marketing portfolio. You must have UK market luxury travel industry sales experience with a specific focus towards the relevant region. The position involves running the trade sales relationships for the relevant clients within our portfolio.

The Job

• Direct responsibility for managing International sales clients within a destination cluster
• An overall responsibility to promote and support all sales clients within the UK market and within wider European markets when need dictates,
• The organisation and execution of all clients' UK market visits, roadshows, events and sales calls.
• Day to day management of the relationship with all relevant clients alongside the relevant PR team where appropriate as well as the senior management team
• All monthly / bi-monthly reporting where relevant across all clients with direct responsibility
• Management of all key UK market accounts
• Alongside the wider sales team, regularly ensuring our inhouse CRM system is up to date, accurate and populated with relevant sales activities, market trends, changes in personnel and key contacts
• Ensuring all client collateral, reports and updates are made

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