Commercial Development Manager

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER | Hotel & Car | HYBRID Denver-Atlanta, US

Travel obsessed? Big tech fan? Hey, you’re in good company. If you want to be part of the industry that makes the world go round, then look no further. 

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings- plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can’t solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we’re looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

We’re hiring right now for a Commercial Development Manager ! Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

How you’ll make an impact:

This is a high-impact, growth-focused commercial role. As Commercial Development Manager, you will be accountable for driving measurable booking growth and revenue across our hotel, car, and rail.

You will work across the commercial ecosystem — partners, agencies, and internal stakeholders— to unlock new opportunities, maximise performance, and create sustainable revenue growth. This role suits someone who thrives on ownership, takes initiative, and turns ideas into results.

Your role in action:

• Drive booking growth and revenue performance by selling and embedding the value proposition of Travelport’s hotel, car, and rail content.
• Working across the entire commercial organization to enhance and acquire content, develop existing and new rate programmes, and identifying further opportunities for growth, including through third parties. 
• Building strong relationships with internal teams, including commercial agency team working together to identify opportunities for growth 
• Establishing relationships with agency customers in accordance with defined growth strategy to deliver increased bookings
• Understanding customer’s business and technology and being able to utilize customer perspective to frame the opportunity for greater usage overall
• Develop, communicate, and track sales development plans, pipeline, and key performance metrics.
• Challenging the norm, and championing change to allow us to be more successful. Effectively sharing best practice across both commercial teams (partners & agency)
• Commitment to cultivating strategic cross-functional relationships across Travel Partners, Commercial and Travelport more broadly.

Could this be you?

• Experience in sales, negotiation or new business development within travel or hospitality (GDS knowledge)
• A results-driven commercial mindset with a history of exceeding targets
• Strong initiative, accountability, and comfort operating autonomously.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Are motivated by performance and measurable impact.
• Take ownership and work to move quickly from idea to execution.
• Enjoy challenging established ways of working.
• Are ambitious, curious, and commercially minded.

Where do we start! Our benefits package includes:

75K + incentives

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, a competitive 401(k) match, as well as many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs. We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy, hybrid working model, as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.  We also offer a New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8.

Search for #lifeattravelport for our employee stories on LinkedIn!

Your journey at Travelport starts here.

Our application process is quick, easy, and hassle-free — apply in just a few minutes!

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.