Jet2holidays has announced plans to expand its award-winning trade team, as the tour operator further strengthens its approach to working with independent travel agency and homeworker partners.
The UK’s largest tour operator is recruiting to fill four positions in its trade team, which will expand the size of the team to 20.
Vacancies include Trade Support Manager, Trade Marketing B2B Manager, Trade Sales Executive and Trade Analysis Executive.
The field-based Trade Sales Executive role will cover the North East and Yorkshire with the successful candidate taking responsibility for working in collaboration with independent travel agency partners to help them market, promote and sell Jet2holidays packages so that they can grow their businesses and increase sales.
The other vacancies are based in Leeds and are critical to the delivery of Jet2holidays’ award-winning trade sales strategy. The Trade Support Manager post is responsible for processes and systems that enable the trade team to effectively deliver this strategy and the Trade Marketing B2B Manager will develop and oversee marketing plans to inform, inspire and encourage partners to sell package holidays. The Trade Analysis Executive will provide the trade team and agency partners with insight into performance and market trends, so that they can tailor their strategies based on real-time data.
In addition to these four positions, Jade Evers has moved into a newly created Trade Operations Manager role that will see her lead, manage and develop trade operations including marketing, events and trade support. Jade has worked in the Jet2holidays trade team for three years, most recently as Business Development Manager and as Trade Sales Executive before that.
Claire Jenkins has also moved into the new position of Trade Events Manager. In her new post, Claire will manage, plan and execute events including the Jet2holidays Annual VIP conference, third party conferences, Virtual Knowledge Sessions and FAM trips. Claire has worked at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays for 20 years, most recently as Trade Support Manager, a role she has worked in for over nine years. She worked for Jet2.com on its very first day of operations 20 years ago, starting her career at the company working on the sales desk at Leeds Bradford Airport.
Alan Cross, Head of Trade at Jet2holidays said:
“This significant investment into working with independent travel agents and homeworkers shows just how integral our partnership approach to working with them is. There is very strong demand for our award-winning package holidays booked through trade sales channels, and we want to capitalise on that by supporting our partners with every aspect from marketing through to sales analytics. Expanding our dedicated trade team and creating these vital new positions will see our collaborative approach to working with independent travel agents and homeworkers grow even further and faster.”
If you are an independent travel agent and are interested in learning more about how you could benefit from working in partnership with Jet2holidays, please visit the company’s dedicated trade site: trade.jet2holidays.com
