International Sales Manager

We are searching for a talented International Sales Manager to join our sales team for the Nordic & French region. Reporting to the Head of Sales, Nordics & France, this person will take responsibility for negotiating contracts for hotel and package products directly with suppliers and will be based in London, requiring attendance in the office 3 days per week.

About Secret Escapes: Secret Escapes is one of the world’s leading members-only, online travel deals companies, offering inspiring travel experiences and hand-picked offers to over 60 million members worldwide. Operating in 10 countries across Europe, Secret Escapes continues to grow and establish itself as a world-class business, dedicated to giving our members the best range and value in luxury travel deals at low prices.

We operate a hybrid working model where colleagues come into the office in London 3 days a week. We also offer flexible working with core hours between 10 am to 4 pm, and you have the freedom to schedule the remaining hours to suit your routine. As an inspiring travel brand, we also provide a “Work From Anywhere” scheme giving you the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world. This benefit is designed both to feed our travel passion and support parents and carers, especially during school holidays.

The role and things you’ll be working on:

• Identifying and maintaining business relationships with hotels and DMCs across your designated region, aiming to drive the commercial growth of the company by securing the best deals for our customers.
• Maintaining existing business relationships and contracting new hotels in the region across our range of product types.
• Identifying a pipeline of sales that offer a constant diversity of products across your region, from country hotels and spas to chic and boutique in the city, from beach resorts to multi-day tours and city packages.
• Drive the commercial growth of your region by building strong relationships with decision makers in the supply chain.
• Managing all elements of the contracting process from target identification and initial contact right through to pricing, contract agreement, allocation management and ongoing account management.
• Close collaboration with other departments – particularly with Operations, Sales Steering & Revenue, Customer Service.

The Team: The sales team at Secret Escapes is made up of results-oriented individuals who are committed to securing the best deals from curated hotels and resorts. The team is a supportive and collaborative collective, focused on our mission to inspire the world to escape. We are open-minded and use data and insights to devise hypotheses to test in as lean a way as possible. We are results-oriented and focus on positively impacting targeted outcomes in the sweet spot between customer and business value generation.

You will bring:

• Excellent sales and account management experience, with a track record of successful contracting in the travel industry.
• Experience of negotiating contracts in France is preferred.
• French-speaking preferred. English mandatory. The Nordic language is a bonus.
• Good knowledge of the French travel and hotel market.
• A strong negotiator with exceptional relationship-building skills.
• Experience in building strategic partnerships with business customers.
• A target-driven mindset with experience of working towards and achieving monthly targets.
• Proven administrative and organisational skills, with the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Commercially astute with high numeracy and analytical skills.

And you are…

• Committed to your work, with an entrepreneurial ‘can-do’ approach to business.
• Target-driven with a track record of hitting targets.
• Analytical and have a commercial mindset.
• Able to work in a dynamic environment and are solutions-focused.
• Able to work independently to grow your region.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Secret Escapes and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.