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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hybrid
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About Tripadvisor
The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.
What you will do:
We are seeking a driven and high-performing Field Sales Representative who will be responsible for growing Viator’s catalogue of products by acquiring new and exciting suppliers across your geographic region. The Field Sales Representative role requires excellent sales and communications skills, effective relationship-building talents, and a proven track record of exceeding targets with experience in outside sales, telesales, new customer acquisition and/or business development, preferably with an online or travel company.
You are a brand ambassador that will be proactive, motivated, organized, responsible, and able to work well in a fast-paced, team-oriented, and entrepreneurial environment. This is a great opportunity for a motivated candidate with a passion for travel to join a fun team and have immediate impact driving revenue for a global leader experiences industry.
Job Location: Hybrid in London, UK
Responsibilities:
Facilitate negotiation of terms, including rates and margins, to close new business
Manage designated pipeline and make outbound calls
Engage with destination marketing organizations and other trade groups to win customers
Consultatively position our distribution platform and value proposition
Modify customer engagement to overcome objections and identify solutions to roadblocks
Achieve and exceed communicated targets
Collaborate with sales operations, supplier support, and account management teams to ensure a smooth and efficient sales cycle
Take ownership and accountability over the full sales cycle from lead generation, outreach, negotiations, closing, and onboarding
Travel as needed to meet with assigned targets, travel to attend trade events, participate in regional speaking engagements, attend internal team meetings
Key Skills & Experience:
3+ years of experience in sales, preferably with an online company
Travel industry experience preferred, particularly with tours, activities, or attractions
Strong sales, negotiation, and closing skills
Proven record of contracting new business and regularly exceeding sales targets
Territory and pipeline management experience using Salesforce or another CRM tool
Strong written and oral communication skills
Results-driven hunter mentality with relentless drive to sign up new customers
Proven self-starter with ability to deliver on initiatives without constant supervision
Confident and energetic; flexible and adaptable; organized and able to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Skills & Experience
What We Offer
Our Cultural Pillars:
Traveler first
We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
Execution is our edge
We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
We succeed together
The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com.
If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!
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