General Manager - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Awaze

Awaze

Verified Company

Maidstone, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As the UK's leading villa holiday company, James Villas has been providing villa holidays for over 35 years. Founded in 1984, and starting with just one villa, we now have 3,000 villas in over 60 destinations.

We have recently gone through a business model transition to shift away from selling villas as part of a package with flights, car-hire, and transfers as a tour operator, to become a villa only provider.

This aligns the James Villas business model to theother brands within the Awaze group. James Villas is part of the Awaze Specialist Brands Division.

The Role:
We are looking for someone to take responsibility for managing the James Villas team, brand and P&L.

James Villas has a strong brand and heritage and loads of growth potential as we integrate the full portfolio of Awaze group supply for sale on the James Villassite.

The business has gone through significant change over the last couple of years and is still going through a level of transition.

We need someone to provide the right focus, drive the business forward, motivate the team around the future vision for thebusiness and manage the further transition and integration with the wider Awaze business.

Responsibilities:

Define and implement a growth strategy for James Villas
Own the development of the James Villas brand, delivering a brand strategy which grows brand awareness and engagement
Management of sales and operational teams
Commercial responsibility for James Villas and delivery of revenue targets
Ownership of the James Villas P&L
Work closely with and utilise the SBD functional teams (commercial, marketing, technology) to implement James Villas strategy and deliver to growth targets
Collaborate, benchmark and compare best practice with the other SBD Brands in order to drive up standards across all Brands
Drive and influence the wider SBD Strategy as part of the SBD Leadership Team
Work with HR and the SBD leadership team to build, maintain and grow a positive, outcomeoriented culture within the Maidstone office and James Villas Team

Experience:

Extensive experience in a sales or marketing leadership role
Ideally with experience in a General Manager/Managing Director Role
Ecommerce and travel experience required
Excellent communication skill across all mediums, comfortable with leading companywide meetings and communications
Experience of remote working and distributed teams
Strong numerate and analytical skills
Ability to lead and drive from the top but also jump into the detail where necessary
Be equally process and people orientated
Superb communicator and able to direct diverse teams.