Compare Ferries www.compareferries.com is a European ferry comparison and booking site offering a quick and easy way to search, compare and book 1000's of scheduled ferry crossings to and from the UK and Europe at the very best prices.Compare Ferries offers comprehensive access to ferry companies, routes, special offers and the very best prices in the ferry travel sector, we also offer and a range of ancillary products from carefully selected partners including Hotels, Villas, Apartments and Holiday Homes.• Leading the company and ensuring all employees buy into the company vision to be the leading global online ferry ticket booking company.• Setting the overall strategic direction of the company alongside the board.• Planning and implementing long term business strategies to achieve the company’s objectives in the travel sector.• Managing the direction of the company and guiding senior members of the company.• Working closely with the Sales Director on sales strategy and approach to agreeing commercial terms with ferry operators globally. Analysing opportunities for growth in new market segments and develop new partner agreements utilising our ferry technology with other travel partners to drive profitability.• Work closely with the Marketing Director to ensure we are devising and manging strategies to drive online traffic to the company website. Tracking conversion rates and making improvements to the website. Developing and managing digital marketing campaigns utilising a range of techniques including paid search, SEO and PPC. Agreeing and implementing the social media strategy for the company. Managing online brand and product campaigns to raise brand awareness. • Carrying out regular SWOT analysis to mitigate any potential risks through industry and market changes in the ferry and travel industry.• Setting company-wide KPI’s to gauge company performance in all areas.• Setting company budgets and forecasts alongside the finance director.

At Babble we are Technology partners to ambitious people who want to spend less, make more and secure everythingThrough the effective deployment of the very best cloud solutions that deliver efficiency, customer engagement and increased profitability whilst protecting the businessBy focusing on the technology alone most organisations miss the opportunity to become more accessible, more responsive and more effective.At Babble we see our role as bringing businesses and communications technology to take advantage of the possibilities. In essence, to make your business brilliant.• Planning and implementing long term business strategies to achieve the Company’s objectives in the travel vertical. Develop Babble as the “go to” Company for cloud contact centres, call management, hosted telephony, connectivity, unified communications and AI.• Working closely with the Sales Director to agree and deliver the sales strategy; identifying customers in the travel vertical that we can sell our technology to. Identifying and engaging comms sector experts in targeting, presenting, closing, implementing and supporting new travel businesses in the travel and tourism vertical.• Working closely with the Marketing Director and external marketing companies to generate press coverage and profile opportunities so that the travel industry is brand and product aware of Babble and understands the opportunities of working with Babble to add value to their business.• Achieve brand and product awareness so that doors are opened when Babble sales team engages to explain what the business is and the services offered.• Deliver coverage which encourages travel businesses to contact Babble for their technology requirements.• Carrying out regular SWOT analysis to mitigate any potential risks through industry and market changes in the travel vertical.• Agree the KPI’s to gauge company performance in delivering travel and tourism existing and new business to Babble.

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Part of the Management Team responsible for delivering agreed business targets across all sectors of our business and agreed yearly profit targets• Manage the relationships with all Ferry Operators Worldwide, negotiate Commercial Terms with agreed targets and override commissions.• Manage the team to ensure close ongoing relationships with Ferry Operators and use our websites (currently in 26 languages) and databases to promote special offers and sales promotions with Ferry Operators.• Manage all third party relationships with Tour Operators and businesses that use the Direct Ferries Technology to provide Ferry Travel options to their customers, these operators include Avios, Eurocamp Germany, Netherlands, and UK. Holland.com, The Mail Travel and Go Compare.• Manage the CRM strategy with a co-ordinated plan of activity over the year.• Responsible for identifying and agreeing new business relationships with new Ferry Operators Worldwide with a specific focus on Asia, Americas, New Zealand and Australia.• Manage the PR relationship with current PR Company Four BGB with the specific objective of establishing and developing the brand of Direct Ferries as the go to site for Ferry Travel and to ensure a high profile and awareness of our brand and to ensure the delivery of online articles that can feed into our SEO.• Mange the Affiliate Channel partnership with Tradedoubler across currently 6 Countries, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK and look to develop new markets for example Poland, Scandinavia and USA. This relationship delivers significant revenue for Direct Ferries.• Manage the internal Affiliate team that delivers on an ongoing basis offers, banner advertising, additional sales and marketing activity by County to key Affiliates and generate sales for Direct Ferries.• Responsible for the negotiating and contracting of other ancillary products e.g. Insurance, Hotels (work with Booking.com), telephone services.

Responsibilities• Responsible for the profitable Sales of the 7 key routes for DFDS Seaways of Dover Calais, Dover Dunkirk, Portsmouth Le Havre, Newhaven Dieppe, Newcastle Amsterdam, Harwich Denmark and Copenhagen Oslo from the UK, Ireland and Eastern Europe.• Manage the Regional Sales Team and the Groups Team to ensure cost effective sales performance and achievement of budgets and targets by route and Country.• Manage all third party distribution via key distribution channels of Regional and National Travel Agents, Tour Operator, GITX and MITX Operators, Ferry Portal and Online Travel Companies , Voucher Operators e.g. Groupon, Living Social etc, Regional and National Newspaper promotions, and Closed User groups • Manage B2C Private Groups, Large events and MICE segment. • Manage the major Online Accounts, Top Affiliate Accounts and the Affiliate programme via Tradedoubler and Affiliate window.• Develop and agree annual sales and groups plans. Ensure that the sales and groups plan is regularly reviewed in order to deliver agreed targets• Control sales mix and subsequent impact on margins by use of structured key account management procedures for each business sector and distribution channel.• Manage the team to deliver budgets and targets via a multichannel strategy.• Negotiate with management of specific national and regional accounts to secure and protect distribution and to develop and agree business building programmes. • Ensures that advertising and promotional based sales activities are delivered within agreed levels of marketing expenditure and to agreed targets.• Responsible for developing the sales offline and online strategy to deliver agreed sales targets on DFDS routes from key Eastern European Countries with particular focus on Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria via General Sales Agents Petpolonia and Seatours, Ferry Portal Operators Aferry and Direct Ferries and global voucher operators including Groupon