Destination Manager

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.

We are seeking a driven and high-performing Destination Manager who will be responsible for the health and quality of the Viator product offering across their assigned geographical territory.  The Destination Manager will have a deep understanding of key trends, opportunities, and challenges within their destination and work to optimize our product offering to best match the consumer demand in terms of product variety, pricing, and availability.

You are a brand ambassador that will focus on growing your destination as well as Viator's positioning within your given destination. You will be responsible for meeting/exceeding destination level key performance indicators and maintaining/improving the overall commercial health of your destination.  In this role you will be working with both internal and external stakeholders to align on necessary product offerings in the designated destination(s), carrying out critically important tasks to maintain and grow our competitive advantage in the given territory.

As a Destination Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Responsible for curating and maintaining a best-in-class product offering for the assigned destinations.

• Strategically acquire new inventory to address product gaps and highlight innovative offerings. 

• Build and strengthen assigned destinations to enhance product selection and increase brand awareness. 

• Negotiate favorable commercial terms and monitor key metrics, taking necessary actions. 

• Ensure consistent availability and quality of key products and drive continuous improvement by aligning offerings with customer preferences.

• Establishing yourself and Viator as strong members in the operator community of your designated destination.

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The ideal candidate for this role will exemplify the following characteristics:

• 3-5 years in B2B Account management or Sales

• Online Travel Agency, operator, or travel experience is a plus

• Entrepreneurial & Commercially Driven

• Focused on growing the business and destination.

• Highly skilled in securing favorable terms and maintaining relationships

• Passionate about achieving success and excellence

• Committed to serving customer partners and sharing knowledge

• Growth and Results Oriented

• Continuously improving both personally and for the company

• Passionate about achieving success and excellence

• Skilled in leveraging professional connections

• Embraces new ideas and works well in teams

• Detail-Oriented

• Strong technical background and data analysis abilities

• Understanding of the travel landscape is preferred

• Proven track record of working in a fast paced and dynamic environment

• Clear and impactful in communication

• Language Skills: English & French - Fluent

Skills & Experience 

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making in day-to-day work.
• Proven ability to operate effectively with a global-first mindset 
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What We Offer 

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.
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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!