Key Responsibilities
 -Meet or exceed established travel & event planning and profitability goals.
-Efficiently design custom group travel and wellness retreat itineraries and larger group events, incorporating wide-ranging elements such as hotels, activities, suppliers, transportation, speakers, merchandise, meals, and special guests.
-Prepare detailed line-itemized trip budgets, taking ownership on the details to ensure pricing accuracy.
-Manage the client experience from initial trip/event design through planning, to pricing and sales, ensuring profitability, client satisfaction, and retention.
-In line with company process, carefully input detailed trip planning and budgeting information into Trip Logs.
-Request, receive, and evaluate terms and pricing received from hotels, DMCs and Third Party suppliers to ensure quality and value.
-Research new destinations for development, efficiently sourcing quality hotels, DMCs, and suppliers to tight deadlines -Input supplier information to support in the development, and enrichment of our supplier database.

Qualifications:
-Minimum of Bachelors degree in Marketing, Hospitality, Tourism or any related field.
-2+ years of experience in a group travel, events planning and/or wellness retreat planning role
-Self-motivated, proactive, and highly organized with the ability to manage multiple planning projects simultaneously 
-Drive to hit timelines, reach set goals, and close agreements 
-Solid financial management skills and experience managing budgets
-Skilled at anticipating client needs and delivering intuitive, personalized solutions
-Experienced international traveler possessing of on-the-ground knowledge of regions and countries worldwide
-Skillful destination researcher able to source quality suppliers efficiently
-Fluent professional English, both written and spoken
-Experience with HubSpot, Monday.com, Google Drive, and Slack preferred
-Sales experience preferred
-Active experience including yoga, football, biking, hiking, water sports, etc. preferred
-Candidates with foreign language skills preferred - Spanish, French and Italian
-Previous experience as a guide / tour leader in a customer-facing role preferred
-Previous event and/or festival experience preferred