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Senior Trade Sales Manager

The Role

As we continue to grow our presence in the UK trade market, we’re looking for a commercially confident Senior Trade Sales Manager to lead our trade strategy, strengthen key partnerships, and inspire a high‑performing sales team.

Reporting into the Product & Commercial Director, this standout opportunity is ideally suited to someone who thrives on building relationships, spotting commercial opportunities, and driving results. You’ll play a central role in how our brands show up across the UK travel trade.

Principal Responsibilities

Lead, inspire and elevate the team

• Coach, support, and motivate four Business Development Executives and one sales support executive
• Set clear KPIs and drive performance across all regions
  
• Ensure regional plans are delivered consistently and effectively
• Join BDEs for key meetings, events, and supplier engagements when needed
• Build a positive, collaborative, high performing team culture

Drive Sales Growth and Commercial Success

• Develop and deliver the annual UK trade sales strategy
• Analyse performance to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities
• Manage trade sales budgets and ensure spend supports commercial priorities. Work closely with the Product and Commercial Director to shape strategy
• Lead initiatives that grow market share, revenue, and brand visibility
• Oversee agent incentives and ensure digital activity supports field activity
• Provide regular reporting, insights, and recommendations to Product and Commercial Director

Strengthen trade partnerships

• Represent both brands at a senior level with key trade partners, consortia, and industry bodies
• Manage agent credit arrangements and associated risks
• Lead commercial negotiations including commission structures, overrides, and marketing agreements
• Support the team in building and deepening agency relationships across the UK
• Ensure consistent messaging and presentation standards at all trade events

Bring market insight into the business

• Stay ahead of UK travel trends, competitor activity, and commercial shifts
• Act as the bridge between the sales team and internal departments, sharing insight with product, marketing, commercial, and operations teams

Champion the brands across the industry

• Plan and oversee trade events, roadshows, fam trips, and conferences
• Represent Canadian Affair and American Affair at exhibitions and overseas educational trips
• Ensure the team consistently positions both brands as leading specialists in North American travel
• Manage brochure distribution throughout the year

What You Bring

Essential

• Strong leadership experience within the travel industry, ideally with a tour operator or trade facing background
• Proven success managing a field based sales team and delivering measurable growth
• Commercially confident, data driven, and able to influence strategy
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to build senior level trade relationships and negotiate effectively
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities at pace
• Willingness to travel across the UK and internationally
• Passion for North American travel and for championing both brands
• Full, clean UK driving licence

Desirable

• A strong network of UK travel trade contacts
• Experience with digital sales channels or website commercial optimisation
• Knowledge of Canadian Affair and American Affair destinations or product range

Interested? Send your CV to [email protected] today.

Accounts Assistant

The Role

We’re seeking a skilled and dependable Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team, with a strong focus on Accounts Payable. This role is ideal for someone who has hands-on experience in a similar accountancy position and is both confident and competent managing day-to-day finance operations with accuracy and efficiency.

You’ll be joining a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your expertise will be valued and your contributions will make a real impact.

Principal Responsibilities

• Purchase ledger (Multi-currency) – Dealing with +-50 accounts.
• Review of invoices – comparison to contracts to ensure correct rates are charged by suppliers.
• Fortnightly BSP Reconciliation (Payments to airlines)
• Weekly check and payment on invoices to parent company airline.
• Daily Reporting of Banking balances
• Assistance with Balance Collections from customers
• Reconciliation of employee expenses
• Ad Hoc duties

Skills / Experience / Requirements

• Previous experience in an Accounts Assistant or similar finance role, with a strong understanding of Accounts Payable processes
• Proven ability to manage multi-currency ledgers and supplier relationships
• Ability to work with a team and cooperate with others to achieve team objectives.
• Strong eye for detail
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Demonstrable time management skills and ability to prioritise workloads
• Highly process driven
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Good literacy skills
• Problem solving
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• IT literate - In particular a good knowledge of Excel.

Interested? Send your CV to [email protected] today.

Closing date for applications: 22nd April 2026