Marketing and Business Development Manager Full Time

On site – Full Time – Toronto, Canada

The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is Israel’s national tourism agency responsible for planning and implementing marketing and promotional initiatives to position Israel as a preferred travel destination. IMOT offices in North America are located in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto.

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 across Canada.

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 organisation 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 / French language would be a great asset for Quebec market
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
Advanced knowledge of MS Office
An applicant with Israeli citizenship cannot apply for the position.

General:

Office located in Toronto
Probation period – 6 months
Full time job
Salary: Commensurate with experience.

NOTE:

• Hiring process require local Police and further internal Security and Personality background checking.
• Be aware that hiring process can take up to 2 months.

Tagged as: account management, sales and business development