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Join Scott Dunn as a Destination Manager and Lead the Adventure into Latin America and Polar Regions
Overview
Salary
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Location
Hammersmith, London, UK
Expires
Expires at anytime
Scott Dunn, a leader in luxury travel, is on the lookout for a passionate Destination Manager to shape unforgettable journeys across the Latin America and Polar landscapes. This 12-month maternity cover role offers a chance to influence the luxury travel sector, bringing new and exciting holiday experiences to discerning travelers.
Organisation Summary:
Scott Dunn stands at the pinnacle of luxury travel, crafting bespoke experiences for a sophisticated clientele. With a mission to remain at the forefront of the travel industry, Scott Dunn values detail, knowledge, and inspiration. Join a team that encourages career progression, celebrates success, and provides numerous perks, all while being part of the global Flight Centre Travel Group.
Role Summary:
- Developing and managing the Latin America and Polar product portfolios.
- Creating compelling travel experiences to attract new and repeat guests.
- Engaging in commercial negotiations and managing supplier relations.
- Driving website development and marketing campaigns.
- Planning and maximizing the benefits of familiarization trips.
- Supporting and training sales teams with necessary tools and resources.
- Ensuring product database accuracy and relevance.
Role Requirements:
- Proven passion and knowledge of Latin America and Polar regions, with luxury travel experience.
- Strong product management skills and commercial acumen.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Creative writing skills for product copy.
- Aligned with Scott Dunn's values and willing to work from the London office.
The Opportunity We are seeking a Destination Manager for our Latin America and Polar product portfolios to develop and maintain destinations in line with Scott Dunn’s destination development strategy, in doing so identifying new product opportunities and ensuring we remain at the forefront of the luxury travel market. This is to cover a period of maternity on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
Responsibilities The responsibilities for this role include (but are not limited to): Ownership and destination specialism of Scott Dunn’s Latin America and Polar geographical regions across multiple source markets Develop a compelling product proposition designed to engage new guests and compel repeat guests to go on another Latin America or Polar holiday Commercial negotiations and ground-handler tenders Delivering destination product overhauls to deadline Drive new campaign ideas and website development Planning fam trips and ensuring that each trip delivers maximum benefit to the business Managing relationships, leading key supplier meetings, and representing Scott Dunn at tradeshows Supporting the sales teams Proactively identify sales team training requirements, building a bank of tools and resources Maintaining accuracy and relevance of content within the product database Effective communication with product, sales, and marketing team and the wider business Creatively writing new and existing product copy
About You You will have a deep passion and knowledge for Latin America and Polar regions, and luxury product in general, having evidenced the ability to take ownership for a product proposition and collaborate across a business to drive its marketability and adaptation to the latest industry trends.
Location We aim to find someone who would be office based at our London, Hammersmith office.
Values & Behaviours All employees must promote, understand, and apply Scott Dunn’s workplace values. These are embedded in all roles and applicants must evidence the values as part of the application process.
Why work for Scott Dunn In return for your expertise and commitment to our values of in the detail, in the know, and inspiring; We support your career growth – We provide you with career progression aligned with your chosen career path, access to internal job opportunities across Scott Dunns global offices, as well as across 30+ brands spread across 93 cities worldwide as part of Flight Centre Travel Group
We give you the tools to succeed – We provide personal and professional development enabled by our award-winning Learning and Development team, comprehensive familiarisation, and educational trips, unlimited access to LinkedIn learning amongst other professional and personal development platforms, as well as 1 hour for your own development each week.
We recognise and reward your success and loyalty – We run commission and bonus incentive schemes to compliment competitive salaries, as well as a company loyalty scheme, which includes a personal travel fund for each staff member and 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays that rises by 1 day per each year of service (up to a maximum of 30).
We celebrate your excellence – With monthly, quarterly, and annual recognition schemes and awards, alongside the opportunity to win a place at Flight Centre Travel Groups annual Global Gathering, we celebrate excellence in all forms
We provide you with a wide-range of job and industry-perks – We can offer you subsidized private healthcare, a contributory pension scheme, staff travel insurance, 3 days of paid volunteering leave, access to cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes, a dedicated in-house team who are your source for exclusive industry discounts for personal and work-related travel, as well as share options in Flight Centre Travel Group amongst much, much, more!
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion At Scott Dunn we champion equality, diversity, and inclusivity in all its forms and are signatories of both the Race at Work and the Diversity in Hospitality, Travel & Leisure charters. As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and recognises the value of differences.
Apply You do not need to meet all the requirements to apply for a position at Scott Dunn. Should this role be of interest to you we would welcome your application. If you are interested in working with Scott Dunn, please apply now.
