Business Development Manager – South (Travel Trade)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	29 Rhagfyr 2025
Cyflog:	£35,000 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	27 Ionawr 2026
Lleoliad:	Field Sales - South, RH10 9GT
Cwmni:	Saga
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	saga/TP/40191/3388

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Business Development Manager – South (Travel Trade)

Salary £35,000 + Quarterly performance-based bonus + Company Vehicle

Permanent

Field based across South Region (From Cornwall to Kent and as north of Oxfordshire)

Do you thrive on creating memorable, passionate and professional interactions with your customers?

Are you results focused, ensuring that your accounts are performing to the max?

Can you educate and motivate our trade customers to #ThinkTitan in their customer interactions?

At Titan Travel, we are recruiting for a Business Development Manager to work across our South region. Could this be you?

It is an exciting time to join our Trade team at Titan, we have an ambitious growth plan and redefined strategy but also want to keep the customer at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a true ambassador to be out in the field to ensure Titan Travel is our travel agent partners first choice to deliver on our mission of being the most trusted touring partner.

Saga Travel Group (UK) Limited acquired Titan Travel in 2009, and while they are now part of the same group, Titan Travel continues to operate as a separate, though integrated, entity within the Saga Travel business.

This is a field-based role, where roughly 80% of your time will be on the road meeting with accounts. There will be the expectation that you will need to work flexible hours around industry and trade events.

Package Description

At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. 

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave - 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
• Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform

Main Responsibilities

Regional Performance – Excellence Every day.

• Act as an ambassador for Titan Travel ensuring brand messaging is effectively spread across your region.

• Take ownership of your region and identify brand exposure and training opportunities for local agents and create a plan to effectively execute them.

• Attend all trade events in your region including (but not limited to) TIPTO, ATAS & Travel Gossip.

• Drive participation in Titan Rewards to drive upsell and focus on business priorities.

• Host Fam trips.

• Maximise engagement with TITANium & trade communication sign ups to help us achieve our KPIs.

• Support the trade inbox where necessary to ensure timely responses.

Strategic Planning – Make It Happen

• Analyse your regions weekly, monthly and quarterly account activity and performance, spotting opportunities to improve performance and put in place tangible, measurable action plans that drive results.

• Drive trade incentives and campaigns.

• Deliver on your promises and be the most trusted partner to your accounts.

• Ensure that agreed sales and marketing activity is implemented, tracked and monitored to assess ROI.

• Monitor and report on competitor activity in the touring and wider holiday sectors to ensure Titan Travel remains at the forefront of our sector.

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal Business Development Manager will have 2+ Years background in sales and/or account management. Experience within a travel agency or within the travel industry is preferred.

Based on the field nature of the role you will need to hold a full driving licence.

Skills required include:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly form relationships

• Sales driven and with an eye for identifying commercial opportunities, and turn them into results

• Conceive and execute engagement initiatives unaided and/or with the partnership of other business stakeholders

• Innovative thinker constantly looking to improve ways of working

• Excellent time manager who can identify priorities, balance them with the core day-to-day tasks and build out their diary to maximise opportunity

Saga Values: Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special

About The Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. We’re one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high-quality products and exceptional standards of service. Our product portfolio includes cruises, holidays, insurance, personal finance products and our Saga Magazine.

We aim to be the most-trusted brand for older people in the UK. Our focus on delivering exceptional products and service empowers our colleagues to create moments that are personal and special for our customers and for each other. Our values underpin our approach and help guide us to deliver our purpose.

We’re committed to making sure that colleagues can be their best, be themselves and make a difference – more than anywhere else. We do this by creating a truly inclusive culture, where all colleagues can bring their full and authentic selves to work and be treated with dignity and respect in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.

Thanks to our people, Saga has been ranked 6th in the UK’s Best Employers 2025 by the Financial Times and Statista. This recognition, based on the voices of 20,000 employees across the UK, is a testament to the great culture we’ve built together. This award belongs to all our colleagues who collectively make Saga a fantastic place to work.

We are champions of age inclusivity and signatories of the Age-Friendly Employer Pledge, we are proud of our multigenerational teams we have in place. We’re also a committed Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Your application will have fair consideration, and you’ll receive personal communication throughout your applicant journey when you apply to join Saga.

For more information on our DEI policies, colleague stories and other opportunities across the business, please visit Jobs and careers with Saga

Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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