Brand Director – Start your Own Travel Brand

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and start a company within a company? We are looking for passionate people, who want to show the world, what they are capable of. If you have a passion for a travel destination (ie. Scandinavian countries, India, North America etc.) or for a specific style of travel (ie. vegan food travel, bike tours etc.), a deep knowledge of the tourism industry and an extended network it is your time to show your full potential. With your new brand you will have a big impact, we believe by focusing on just one niche, you can provide a superior trips to our travelers. We are looking for experienced professionals, with entrepreneurial spirit, who have their heart in the right place. Please look this video to have a better understanding of the position.

You will collaborate with a young, passionate team of Intrapreneurs, each developing their own brand. You will have the support of the Ventura TRAVEL departments that will help you take your brand to its finest potential. We only consider applications that have a CV and Cover Letter in English.

On daily basis, you will

• Support the growth and development of the your new travel brand to make it a success
• Build up new relationships with local partners in the area you chose to create unique travel experiences
• Design amazing trips that will delight your customers
• Ensure that the website with the content you provide will show your trips in an inspiring way
• Work hand in hand with the Ventura Marketing team on a strategic level to ensure we address the right customers
• Put the traveler into the focus and delight them with a world-class customer service that actually address customer needs
• Hire and lead a team, that will help you achieve all the above and ensures a sustainable growth

The basics that you bring along 

• Great passion for the destination (and its people, nature, traditions and diversity) or for the type of travel you propose
• It’s fun to be around you and your future colleagues will enjoy working with you
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• You are ambitious & keen for challenges
• Professional experience needed to succeed with your new brand
• Fair & sustainable approach
• Proven record of finishing projects successfully
• Ability to focus on few priorities and to say “no” to things
• Great communication and self organization skills
• Good English skills, as it’s our company language
• Fast learner

You can impress us even more with

• Several years experience in travel / tour operations
• Good knowledge in Google Analytics and Data Studio
• Experience in leading a team
• You are skilled in one or more of the languages of the destination and/or the ones of the source market you want to sell to (ie. German, French etc)
• Work experience with CRM systems like hubspot
• Some knowledge that can help not just your brand but us Ventura TRAVEL as a whole

What awaits you in your new job

• Thanks to your brand creation, people with the same passion as you can have the great vacations they deserve
• Develop & grow the new niche travel brand with the support of Ventura Travel to make it a success
• Building up a strong, sustainable relationships with local partners to create unique travel experiences
• Design of amazing trips that will delight your customers
• Ensuring that the website with the content you provide will show your trips in an inspiring way
• Putting the traveler into the focus and delight them with a world-class customer service that actually address customer needs
• Assembling and leading a team, that will help you achieve all of the above and ensures a sustainable growth

What we promise you

• Getting all needed financial investments to create the new brand
• Solid fixed salary, plus we share the profitability of your new brand
• Participation at the overall profit of all of our brands, such as all of our employees
• Development of your ideas with lots of freedom while giving you the support you deserve, you deserve trust and not bureaucracy
• Possibility to learn & grow with us – we believe in constant development
• No boredom: exciting challenges, each day will be a different one
• Open & transparent company culture with weekly talks with the CEO and access to all the data you need
• Option to work from our fun, central office in hip Berlin Kreuzkölln or a different location (if it makes more sense for your travel niche)
• Possibility to travel to another of our offices to work and personally meet other team members (ie we have offices in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador & Colombia)
• Benefit from countless activities in our office like weekly lunches, fitness program, meditation, massage. And of course we have a Kicker table.
• Yearly 2-week-offsite, if we achieve our goals (so far we went to South Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Brasil & Costa Rica).
• Motivated and professional co-workers from all around the world, who want to grow just like you
• We take the Ventura core values seriously, for example each quarter we have a Fun Day, A Fair Day and a Focus day
• Possibility to benefit from great travel trade discounts ie from Airline partners or Deutsche Bahn
• Just like you, we believe in the good of tourism, if done right

What we offer to ensure success of the new brand

Right from the start you have support from our IT experts, you have access to our back-end software, you will get a new shiny, responsive, well-designed website adapted to your needs, you will have the support of the world’s best (and most fun) finance team; and you will work hand in hand with Andre, the CEO of Ventura, who will make sure you get all the resources and support you need to succeed. Find more info about the idea and birth of Ventura TRAVEL here. To sum up what we can offer:

• access to a pool of 10.000’s of travelers from French-speaking / DACH market who have traveled with us before and are keen to have a similar experience in destination or lifestyle-based trips, the next Ventura brand
• the world’s best software for trip management and sales, at least according to us :)
• a creative Marketing team who ensures, you receive traffic to your website from day one
• a well organized IT team, that will create an amazingly looking website for you within a few weeks
• a fantastic Finance Team, that will support you funding the company and will take the burden of financial matters such as ensuring payment of all providers, etc.

About Us

At Ventura TRAVEL, we are a Travel Service Developer. We are a global network of tourism experts, who create, launch and support highly specialized, individually branded travel services. All our services are led by passionate intrapreneurs with an extraordinary travel expertise. By providing financial support, IT, marketing and other services, Ventura Travel allows its brands to focus on their individual core competence while having a highly competitive infrastructure. Our goal: our travel hub replaces ordinary touristic products with authentic travel experiences created by passionate specialists.