Are you passionate about travel? in London

As a Market Specialist for the Leisure/MICE segment, your role will be to contribute to increased value creation and sustainable growth for the tourism industry in Norway. The successful candidate will facilitate connections between Norwegian tourism providers and British and Irish tour operators and MICE agencies to promote Norway in these markets. Responsibilities include; organising local workshops, attending sales meetings and engaging with customers to help Norwegian tourism companies reach international clients more effectively.

Role and responsibilities

Work with colleagues to:

• Plan and execute Leisure and MICE activities for Norway in the UK and Ireland.
  
• Organise bespoke events, recruit top UK tour operators/MICE agencies, co-ordinate Norway Workshops in London, World Travel Market/Meeting
• Show participation, familiarisation trips and UK participation at the Norwegian Travel Workshop and MeetinNorway.
  
• Follow up recent UK and Irish tour operator/MICE agencies mapping and continually maintain the list of contacts ensuring it is up to date.
  
• Advise UK and Irish operators on building their Norway portfolio.
  
• Collaborate with other Scandinavian Tourist Boards in connection with World Travel Market.
• Handle additional tasks as needed.

The following skills are particularly relevant:

• Excellent project management skills and experience in event organisation including budget management.
  
• A passion for advising customers and seeing them succeed.
  
• A service minded approach.
  
• Excellent communication skills.
  
• Strong interpersonal skill with an ability to persuade stakeholders.
  
• Self-starter the ability to work independently.
  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent in tourism, marketing, business or related field.
  
• Minium three years of relevant experience in marketing and business development.
  
• Commercial mindset.
• Proactive and result-driven way of working.
• Fluent in written and spoken English (working language).
  
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
  
• Proficiency with digital office tools (Teams, SharePoint, CRM, etc.).
  
• Knowledge of Norwegian or Scandinavian languages and industry networks is beneficial, but not required.

Further questions may be directed to Office Director in London, Hilde Hukkelberg: hilde.hukkelberg@innovationnorway.no

Application deadline: August 7th

Innovation Norway wants employees with different competencies, perspectives, ages, genders, and life experiences. Diversity is important both for our working environment and for the work we are set to do. Innovation Norway may carry out background checks on relevant candidates to verify documents/information and assess security‑related matters. Relevant candidates will receive additional information about this. Furthermore, applicants must be prepared to provide information about any ties to high‑risk countries as part of a security assessment.

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