Sales & Business Development Manager
Toronto, Canada
• CA$75K/yr. - CA$85K/yr.
• On site – Full Time

The Israel Ministry of Tourism is looking to hire a Marketing and Business Development manager that will perform the duties of promoting Israel travel with the Canadian travel industry and with the various target audiences. The person filling the position will be expected to plan, initiate, and lead a wide array of marketing activities to achieve these goals, work in coordination with peers in Canada and North America and take part in ongoing office and staff responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
• Developing and maintaining relationships with travel industry organizations, tour operators, travel agencies, online travel agents, airlines, and trade show organizers.
• Initiation and maintenance of new projects for working with agencies, increasing their product knowledge, organizing mutual events.
• Writing and implementing an annual Marketing Work Program in accordance with decisions of the Minister, Director General and Marketing Administration.
• Developing relationships with Christian organizations: church networks, Christian conferences, and denominational organizations.
• Agreement handling: Concluding new marketing contracts with tour operators, extension of existing contracts, checking justifications and invoices of ending contracts & controlling the payments of agreements.
• Making presentations of the Israeli tourism product for travel agents and representatives of tour operators across Canada.
• Event management: Organizing fairs & events in Canada. Being the go-to person for stand builders, fairs management, tour-operators, etc. Handling the organization of seminars, events & congresses in Israel and the follow up of these events in Canada.
• Israel information: touristic Israel information management by phone, email and on fairs.
• Ongoing work with head office, which includes preparation and organization of documents for all tourism office activities, Work Orders, budget approvals, regular contact with the Accounting and marketing division.
• Work with Head Office, external suppliers, tourism agents, local banks, internal finance systems etc.
• Additional tasks include but aren’t limited to assisting and attending fairs and seminars
• Report directly to IGTO director; prepare monthly work reports and meetings reports in English.
• All other activity needed by IGTO director.
Requirements:
• BA -degree – preferably in tourism, marketing, or business
• Fluent English and French.
• Work experience in tourism & marketing for at least 5 years with emphasis on the tourism sector and aviation industry.
• Work experience in Digital Marketing.
• Work experience in advertising –an advantage.
• Experience in making presentations, organizing seminars and webinars
• Good organization skills, confidence, responsibility, communication and negotiation skills, high stress tolerance
• Basic knowledge of MS Office
• Knowledge of Israel / Hebrew – an advantage
• An applicant with Israeli citizenship cannot apply for the position.
General:
• Office located in Toronto
• Probation period – 6 months
• Full time job
• The job implies frequent business trips

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