Times Group - Manager - Travel Sales (7-10 yrs)

Experience:

- 3-5 years in sales. Pref: Content sales, has worked with agencies and will be a benefit if worked in content sales platforms.

- 7-8 years in Travel industry/ sales

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Revenue Development candidate to assist in sales, planning, execution of content - Need to have good understanding of digital media. Has an existing client base, good connect & relations with Travel marketing agencies.

Selection Criteria:

1. Excellent sales skills

2. Good communication and 'people skills'

3. The ability to build good working relationships with travel/hospitality industry

4. The ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

5. Good negotiation skills

6. A knowledge of marketing since Tourism boards expect our teams to think like a marketeer

7. The ability to work as part of a team

8. Ability to deliver Revenue targets

9. Understanding of complete Digital ecosystem ( Programmatic ad sales, content marketing , Social Media/influencer marketing )

10. Candidates from Conde Nast, India Today Travel Plus , Discovery, Nat Geo etc are preferred

Responsibilities:

- Create integrated customized plans for clients across platforms from the group.

- Should be able to manage entire sales process from reaching out to clients, making customized plans and execution of plan

- Contacting potential clients via email or phone to establish rapport and set up meetings

- Ability to think & ideate on content solutions as per the client's brief and requirement

- Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives

- Ability to co-ordinate and understand internal teams' requirement

- Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events

Work environment:

- Connect , communicate and collaborate to achieve KPI's and Team goals

- Empowering individuals : Open environment that fosters innovation with revenue outcome, we provide complete support to candidates willing to work end to end on customer/market opportunities.

- Decision making capability

- Positive Employee relationships: A culture where the entire team participates in problem solving on any challenges thereby encouraging team bonding and creativity for problem solving and knowledge sharing.