Marketing and Business Development Manager Opportunity
Sales & Business Development Manager
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.
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 can take up to 2 months.
– Hiring process required selected candidate to order and submit a mandatory Metropolitan Police
background check
– Hiring process can take up to 2 months.
For more information please contact jerrya@goisrael.gov.il.
