Business Development Executive
If you’re looking for your first or next role in the travel industry, have a passion for presenting, are great at building relationships, and bring energy and enthusiam to work each day, then this could be the perfect role for you.
You’ll be working across a few of our resort clients, with your primary responsibility being an international chain of all-inclusive resorts dotted across the Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Mainland Spain, Greece, Madeira and Bulgaria. You’ll also spend around a quarter of your time looking after business development and travel engagement for a small selection of our clients located in the Caribbean region. Therefore, organisation and time management will be key requirements.
Expect a busy, varied role where no day is ever the same and where you’re frequently out on-the-road - conducting product training to travel agents and tour operator reservations staff, attending trade events, workshops and conferences, and hosting FAM trips to our clients’ destinations and resorts. You’ll have excellent people skills, tons of energy, and an abundance of creativity - all successfully combined so you can build up trade knowledge and loyalty of our clients’ brands and resorts.
You’ll also have the chance to build up relationships with each of our clients’ senior sales and commercial teams, obtaining a greater understanding of their needs, requirements and ways of working, and making it your responsibility to align these with the work you’re doing on their behalf out in the market.
You’ll be comfortable presenting our clients’ portfolios to both small and larger audiences, enjoy frequent travel, and be able to work away from home independently. You’ll prefer working to a more flexible schedule, with regular evening and occasional weekend work required.
You’ll report into our Business Development Manager, who will oversee your day-to-day work and always be on hand for mentorship, training and support - along with the wider Cara team.
This is a permanent, full-time role with the requirement to work at least 2 days per week from our South London office (when not already travelling). Please don’t apply if you aren’t able to fulfil this requirement or if you don’t have the required status to work in the UK.
The salary range for this role is £30,000 to £35,000 per year, depending on experience. We’re looking to fill the position as soon as possible for a January/February start.
Initial applications close on 10 January 2026. If you’d like to apply, please email us your CV along with a detailed explanation as to why you think you’re the right person for the role. We look forward to hearing from you, and are also happy to answer any questions.
info@caraglobal.co.uk
Key tasks and responsibilities of the role will include:
Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with UK & Irish travel agents, tour operator reservations staff, and tourist boards.
Conducting product training to the UK & Irish travel trade. To include regular travel agency and tour operator sales calls throughout the UK & Ireland to carry out face-to-face training, as well as organising and leading webinars.
Creating and maintaining training presentations, each of which will be to a high standard and adhere to our clients’ brand guidelines.
Attending (and hosting where applicable) travel trade, consumer and media shows/events, including the organisation and coordination of certain events. Regular evening and occasional weekend participation will be required.
Responding to travel agent queries and assisting with any special requests and support they may need.
Sourcing B2B event opportunities in the UK & Irish markets, based on available budget, and working with client sales teams to get these approved. Ensuring marketing budgets are kept up-to-date with any activity agreed.
Joining regular calls with senior client sales and commercial teams, including recording meeting minutes and sharing action points with the wider Cara team.
Based on feedback received during client calls, creating social media plans to promote need/opportunity resorts (e.g. sourcing offers from tour operators to promote).
Updating Cara and client-specific social media channels with imagery and content following participation in events, training days, shows, etc. To ensure that all content is aimed at maximising engagement and building a rapport with travel agents.
Working with Cara’s marketing team to coordinate monthly travel agent newsletters for each client, to be sent to our UK & Irish trade database.
With the support of client sales teams, organising and hosting FAM trips to their resorts and destinations, including securing airline seats, accommodation and ground handling services, agreeing a list of invitees, signing off the final itinerary and overseeing the coordination of trip logistics.
Coordinating and managing your own day-to-day schedule, with input and guidance as required from the Business Development Manager.
Managing, tracking and forwarding all event (and other) invoices to client sales and commercial teams for processing with applicable backup.
Delivering a monthly report and updated calendar of events to the Business Development Manager, which includes a summary of all activity carried out in the UK & Ireland during the past month and an outline of planned activity in the month ahead.
Keeping our CRM updated with travel agent/tour operator contact information and regularly logging feedback from sales calls and events.