The Dragon Trip Group is recruiting a General Manager for our fast-paced office in Ho Chi Minh City. The company operates three brands across the youth travel space:
- The Learning Adventure (school trips for university and school students)
- The Dragon Trip (adventure tours for backpackers in Asia)
- The Coyote Trip (adventure tours for backpackers in N America)
All brands are youth-focused tour operators which share the same mission: to expand minds through transformative travel experiences.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all teams in HCMC office – Ensure our operational, finance and HR teams which are based in HCMC are all motivated, supported and valued.
- Lead on growth projects – Our company is rapidly growing. You will be assigned various projects which allow our growth to continue in a sustainable and fast pace way. The nature of this work is highly varied but examples of the likely nature of the work include:
- Assisting with departments which are under strain. Go into the problem department, provide assistance and support on an operational and strategic level until the department is functioning well again.
- Allow us to say yes to new opportunities by handling the operations of a region or product where we don’t yet have a team in place. For example, building out our Southeast Asia domestic product.
- Once you are established in your role, assist in setting up sub-offices in the region: Eg Setting up our Tokyo office. Travel to Tokyo to research the best way to open an entity there, then move forward with creating the company, recruiting a local manager, and launching the office.
- Ensure quality: Work with teams to ensure that as we grow, our product quality remains consistently excellent.
- Represent: Be a senior managerial face of the company to our teams and also our key clients and partners. If there has been an emergency in a particular region and we need a highly responsible manager to go into handle the situation on the ground, you may be chosen to go there and provide support.
Competencies
- Managerial Excellence: Oversee a team of more than 20 people in the HCMC office.
- Strategic Ability: Work alongside company directors to make bold but smart strategic decisions which achieve our growth objectives and are aligned with our values and mission.
- Communication Ability: Work with and inspire teams across a variety of departments. Communicate company messaging to key clients.
- Operational Ability: Effectively execute on plans, in an organized and efficient way.
Experience
- At least 2 years working in travel, international education, or relevant industries, ideally in Vietnam.
- Fluency in English is essential.
What you get from us
- Responsibility. Freedom to execute on your ideas, plan your own schedule and build the change you want to see in the organization.
- Support. We’ll invest time in you to allow you to succeed. It is important to us that our team members develop professionally during their time with us.
- Opportunity. We are a rapidly growing company in our space and work hard to recruit internally. We expect to move from a medium to large sized entity within 5 years and you will be in the top level of management.
- Fun, growing team: The Ho Chi Minh City office is growing – be part of the action and grow alongside us.
Terms:
- Reporting to a company director.
- Competitive salary.
Salary
- Competitive salary plus commission
- Opportunities for training