Business Development Manager - Midwest

Virgin Voyages is seeking a Business Development Manager - Midwest to engage with travel agency partners and promote the Virgin Voyages experience. The role involves building relationships, creating innovative sales plans, and ensuring a strong brand presence in the travel industry.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and nurture relationships with like-minded travel partners whose customers are sure to love the Virgin Voyages experience
• Establish warm and loving relationships with those partners so that we will be a brand of choice for them
• Think creatively and with heart about the best way to reach and support your partners, even if it’s never been done before
• Build smart sales plans for your accounts to help them (and you) over achieve
• Introduce the brand to travel partners in a variety of ways including special events and unique opportunities to experience our beautiful lady ships first hand
• Be prepared to do business on their terms
• Be able solve complex challenges through provocative thinking
• Always be interested in the success of your colleagues, share proven strategies and tactics that help everyone win
• Help clear obstacles for your partners and work to help solve them creatively
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships across the rest of the business too
• Be an enforcer of integrity in the way we conduct ourselves and live up to our brand values everyday
• Do you part to make sure that we are generally brilliant to do business with
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant sales experience
• An in-depth knowledge of the cruise market and its sales strategies across a variety of segments
• An appreciation for how paramount customer and partner experiences are for Virgin to be successful
• A proven performance track record of sales results
• An ability to think outside of industry norms
• A passion to deliver on future results
• Creativity and a desire to change things for the better
• An energy that lights us up
• A sense of unbridled optimism
• Minimum 5 years in travel or hospitality sales preferred
• Existing, deep bonds with key travel partners a plus