Senior Account Executive, Sales & Marketing

Senior Account Executive

At MMGY Global, we believe nothing shapes your view of the world like travel. So every day, we share our clients' stories from a perspective that inspires people to see the world differently. Our personalized service and strategy connect media, consumers and influencers across the globe, taking people to new places and changing their views for the better. At MMGY, we inspire people to go places.

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Account Executive in Los Angeles, Chicago or New York City.

This role will play an integral part of MMGY's International Marketing & Communications division which focuses on integrated marketing solutions for a broad array of international destinations and hotel clients. With established offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City, our division develops strategic plans for our clients across consumer marketing, public relations, social media and travel trade engagement. We represent international tourism offices, such as Australia's Northern Territory, Rwanda, Madeira, Costa Rica among others. We are looking for a dynamic addition to our team to manage the responsibilities for international tourism board clients. Applicants should have strong consumer marketing and travel trade marketing skills. The candidate must possess 4-6 years of marketing and / or tourism experience.

We are looking for candidates with a creative outlook, who can find, build and maintain relationships with destination clients, travel suppliers, airlines and partners to find new and innovative ways to increase visitor numbers via tactical sales and marketing activities.

Responsibilities include :

• Day to day client contact meetings, phone, email etc.
• Implement on-and-offline trade and consumer marketing campaigns, including content, native and digital OTA campaigns
• Develop trade relations with tour operators, consortiums, travel agents, wholesalers, airlines and other industry partners
• Conduct sales calls, webinars and training programs with tour operators and travel agents
• Maximize reach and effectiveness of trade marketing and educational programs
• Assist to develop and implement annual sales and marketing plans, with strong focus on integration and maximizing budget
• Effectively track and manage budgets that contribute to the larger profitability and on-budget delivery of work for the account
• Steward campaign reporting with a strong focus on securing conversion metrics
• Draft client and stakeholder presentations
• Ideate with the Group Account Director marketing programs and partnerships to encourage special interest travel
• Organize trade and industry events, including roadshow and training events for travel advisors, and manage the events day-of, including the training presentation
• Liaise with client contacts to execute ad-hoc reports, assessments and required campaign and activities reporting
• Manage timelines and implementation of projects
• Assist with administrative functions of the account, particularly brief development, trafficking, tracking, coding and organizing sales, marketing and travel expenses and billing on an ongoing basis, client reporting.

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Preferred Skills :

Travel Required (one week per month on average)

Salary Range for this position : $65,000 - $73,000

MMGY Global provides a comprehensive PTO + benefits package that includes a hybrid telework policy. Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization, which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa. MMGY Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Who Are We? We're a travel-obsessed collective of more than 600 people across the country and around the globe. And when we say we inspire people to go places, we mean ALL people. That's why we're focused on nurturing a workforce that is representative of the places we visit.