Cruise Trading Executive, Cruise, TUI UK & Ireland

Joining the Cruise Trading team, you will carry out the trading activity for the Thomson Cruises fleet, ensuring that profit is maximised and the needs of our customers are met. In return you will get exposure to the full end-to-end tour operating process, and therefore develop your all-round commercial knowledge and skills. With a number of ships planned to enter the fleet in the coming years as part of our modernisation strategy, there has never been a more exciting time to join the Thomson Cruises team. TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. We are building a single customer facing team across our airline, contact centre, overseas and retail service teams that will deliver a consistent, contemporary service to every single customer. Joining us will not only provide opportunities for you to grow your management career, but the benefits of being part of an exciting multi-cultural united team.

What you will be doing

As a Trading Executive within the Cruise department, you will be responsible for proactively optimising sales and profitability across the fleet for specific seasons, through the effective use of pricing strategy and introduction of promotions. In this analytical role, you’ll be reviewing sales trends and yield system activity to make effective recommendations to deliver your ship strategy, in line with market conditions. You’ll need to display strong communication skills and build effective relationships with individuals and teams within Cruise, Commercial, Distribution and Finance. In this role, you’ll support the managers in coaching more inexperienced members of the team, ensuring they continue to develop, and building on your own people skills.

What we are looking for

• Strong commercial understanding and numerical skills
• Excellent communicator
• Team player with high level of organisation skills
• Understanding of cruise customers and product range
• Strong conflict management skills
• Strong awareness of needs and issues in a changing market place
• Flexibility in order to ensure departmental objectives are met
• Preferably educated to degree level.

Working within TUI group

Help make our customers smile and in return you will be rewarded with a competitive salary, pension scheme and some excellent incentives across a variety of sales and service performance targets. Additional benefits include holiday, flight and foreign exchange discounts, and a childcare voucher scheme.

TUI UK and Ireland is the UK’s largest tour operator with key brands including Thomson and First Choice. We employ a team of 13,300 employees and serve over 5.2 million customers each year. TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business operating in around 180 countries worldwide with over 1,800 travel agencies across Europe, six airlines operating more than 130 aircraft, more than 300 Group-owned hotels and resorts and twelve cruise ships.

How to apply

Please click on the link below, the application process consists of answering a few questions and uploading your CV.