Director Leisure Group Department

Job description

Embark on the next step in your career journey with Direct Travel! Job Summary: The Director leisure group department position supports a busy and fast pace North American group travel department at a leading Virtuoso agency. We are looking for a candidate with excellent business acumen and organization, as well as people skills; clear and concise internal /external communication skills, an ability to adapt to changing business conditions, strong working knowledge of Office Suite and CVent and competent in utilizing web technology. This is a remote position and does require some travel ~30%. Essential Functions: - Directs a team of program managers to assure excellence in delivery of group travel arrangements, supplier selection, and project profitability - Identifies and secures new group prospects (pied pipers) and delivers group proposals (RFP) - Directs team schedules and optimizes team performance (i.e., deliveries, deadlines, launch dates etc.) - Reporting responsibility to senior leadership team on group performance; ROI; profit margins etc. - Organize and supervise group promotional events (virtual and in-person) in collaboration with Marketing - Responsible for revenue gen...