Account Director

Travel Trade Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in travel is looking for an Account Director to manage key clients in the luxury sales and marketing portfolio. This role requires experience in UK luxury travel industry sales, with responsibilities including managing international sales clients, promoting UK market clients, and executing various client events. The successful candidate will have a strong focus on relationship management and reporting, while ensuring an up-to-date CRM system.

Qualifications

• Must have UK market luxury travel industry sales experience.
• Experience in managing relationships with international sales clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage international sales clients within a destination cluster.
• Promote and support all sales clients within the UK market.
• Organise and execute all clients' UK market visits and events.
• Manage relationships with clients and the PR team.
• Report monthly/bi-monthly across all clients.
• Maintain key UK market accounts.
• Ensure CRM system is accurate and up to date.

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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