
Sales Manager - Austria
- Recruiter:
- MSC Cruises / Explora Journeys
- Category:
- Land Based Jobs
- Published:
- August 29, 2025
Where passion meets opportunity
Discover your journey into the extraordinary.
Your Purpose
Explora Journeys is a vibrant, cosmopolitan, European luxury brand, imagined in the heart of Swiss hospitality in Geneva. Leveraging our parent company MSC Group's hundreds of years of maritime expertise, our fleet of six luxury ships (four are currently in the pipeline) are being built and designed in a totally different and unique way that will transform and redefine the cruise experience, creating a category of its own, appealing to the next generation of luxury travellers.
An exciting opportunity exists for a talented Business Development & Sales professional to join our newly created luxury travel brand Explora Journeys and lead specific assigned strategic accounts to grow market share, create bias and brand loyalty, identify new business development opportunities and grow the brands visibility in Austria. This role is based from home in Austria.
Your Impact
- Manage the defined Go-to-Market strategy for assigned region in terms of partner accounts and business development initiatives.
- Develop best in class relationships that shift, share and grow partner loyalty through a focused communication plan.
- Collaborate with peers and colleagues to leverage sales distribution networks and marketing platforms ensuring brand consistency, policy and pricing integrity.
- Execute business review meetings and leverage performance data to support revenue generation while achieving gross and net revenue goals
- Contribute to the management of all cooperative marketing plans, ROI and regular partner performance reviews QBRs against targets. Lead any Pay for Performance plans with partners.
- Promote group, incentive and charter business from assigned accounts.
- Manage assigned budget and Forecast Process with an expert understanding of channel mix and acquisition cost impact.
- Maintains brand and product visibility by participating in the appropriate trade partner events. Embrace and professionally execute educational visits.
Your Journey so far
- A minimum of 10 years of sales experience in Luxury, Hospitality or Travel is required.
- Luxury cruise experience is a highly sought.
Your Essentials
- Excellent sales network and reputation. Known contact base and high knowledge of partners / key accounts in region.
- You work collaboratively and establish constructive professional relationships externally with partners and within the organization
- Outstanding negotiation, presentation and organization skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially PowerPoint
- Ideally technically capable to use reservation and CRM platforms (Versonix and SalesForce skills are an advantage)
- Fluent in oral and written Portuguese and English is a must, any other language is a plus
- Ability to travel minimum 50% of the time
At Explora Journeys, we are redefining luxury ocean travel — where discovery, well-being, and a deep respect for the seas come together in harmony.
We seek passionate professionals who share our vision of a more immersive, transformative way to discover the world’s most inspiring destinations by sea.
Are you ready to turn your passion into something extraordinary? Join us at Explora Journeys, where an ocean of opportunities awaits. Your journey to the Ocean State of Mind starts here.

MSC Cruises
Explora Journeys
WHERE PASSION MEETS OPPORTUNITY
The Cruise Division of MSC Group, the privately-owned world leader in transportation, is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with two distinct brands - MSC Cruises, covering the contemporary and premium segments and Explora Journeys, dedicated to the luxury segment.
MSC Cruises is the world’s third largest cruise line and the market leader in Europe with a strong and growing presence in North America. A global cruise brand with 23 modern ships offering cruises across five continents, guests can visit more than 100 countries worldwide with more than 300 destinations, making unforgettable memories and enjoying the finest hospitality.
Explora Journeys, launched in 2023, is the luxury ocean travel brand redefining the experience for a new generation of discerning travellers. The fleet, currently comprising two ships and expanding to six by 2028, offers effortless yet refined luxury. Guests embark on transformative journeys, connecting with the sea through exceptional itineraries that inspire discovery in all its forms.
Join us and be part of a global family where together we achieve the extraordinary!
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