Luxury Cruise Trading & Commercial Executive

Succeed Recruitment Solutions; Redditch; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Succeed Recruitment Solutions Limited is recruiting a Luxury Cruise Commercial & Trading Executive for a brand-new opportunity with an award-winning cruise company. The role focuses on developing marketing growth plans, strengthening relationships with cruise line partners, and negotiating exclusive offers across net and retail, with a focus on luxury cruise markets.

This largely remote Monday–Friday role includes regular visits to the head office in Redditch.

Qualifications

• Experience in luxury cruise/expedition market.
• Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication abilities.
• Proactive mindset with ability to identify opportunities and deliver results.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Confidence working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Be the face for Luxury & Expedition for the business.
• Develop a focused strategy and marketing plans for the luxury cruise lines and execute them on time.
• Measuring marketing activity performance in line with executed plans and sales performance.
• Develop and follow a regular contact strategy with cruise lines.
• Identify and develop new opportunities for the business.
• Be aware and communicate all campaign and launch plans to the business.
• Coordinate weekly trading calls, monthly meeting and be aware of & act on market rate movements.
• Be aware of how brands are being represented across all platforms.
• Negotiate and circulate retail and nett rates for package product.
• Develop package product and market across all platforms.
• Select the best deals from the brands that you look after to go into marketing activity.
• Communicating clearly through email and direct mail briefs to the Product Operations team.
• Signing off marketing activity.
• Keeping up to date reporting for your brands including weekly, monthly and yearly figures.
• Identifying new growth areas.
• Tracking targeted and override numbers and recommending actions to achieve these.
• Own the Luxury event strategy from conception to execution.

Skills

Luxury cruise exp

Negotiation skills

Relationship building

Organizational skills

Multi-project management

Job description

We have a brand new, fabulous opportunity for a commercially focused, luxury travel specialist to join an award winning cruise company as a Luxury Cruise Commercial & Trading Executive.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing marketing growth plans and strengthening relationships with cruise line partners, creating opportunity, negotiating exclusive offers across net, retail and exploring new routes to market.

The role will include both destination based packaging & retail product and keeping a constant open channel of communication with suppliers will be key. Day to day trading will also be an intrinsic part of the role and involve acting quickly and efficiently and communication will underpin all aspects of the position and will be a fundamental part of the role.

Previous experience gained within a similar role is essential for the position, along with an understanding of the luxury cruise sector.

In return our client can offer a highly competitive salary, plus bonus & excellent benefits. This is a Monday – Friday role and will be largely remote, with regular visits to head office based in Redditch, so willingness to do this is essential.

Role of Luxury Cruise Trading & Commercial Executive:

• Be the face for Luxury & Expedition for the business
• Develop a focused strategy and marketing plans for the luxury cruise lines and execute them on time
• Measuring marketing activity performance in line with executed plans and sales performance
• Develop and follow a regular contact strategy with cruise lines
• Identify and develop new opportunities for the business
• Be aware and communicate all campaign and launch plans to the business
• Coordinate weekly trading calls, monthly meeting and be aware of & act on market rate movements
• Be aware of how brands are being represented across all platforms
• Negotiate and circulate retail and nett rates for package product
• Develop package product and market across all platforms
• Select the best deals from the brands that you look after to go into marketing activity
• Communicating clearly through email and direct mail briefs to the Product Operations team
• Signing off marketing activity
• Keeping up to date reporting for your brands including weekly, monthly and yearly figures
• Identifying new growth areas
• Tracking targeted and override numbers and recommending actions to achieve these
• Own the Luxury event strategy from conception to execution

Skills required for the role:

• Previous experience in the luxury cruise / expedition market
• Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills
• Excellent relationship-building and communication abilities
• A proactive mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and deliver results
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment