Travel Incentive Destination & Experience Design Consultant

M&IW is looking an experienced and creative incentive travel professional with a passion for the incentive industry. The Destination & Experience Design Consultant is responsible for conceptualizing and designing incentive travel programs that will provide meaningful experiences that inspire and motivate our client’s top performers, customers, or valued employees. This position includes creative concepting, proposal design and development, site sourcing, client presentations, vendor contract negotiation, and transitioning programs to operations team to provide optimal services to the client and maximum revenues to M&IW. This position also assists with building client relationships, identifying additional service opportunities, and continuous process improvement.

What you will do here:

Incentive Travel Program Design, Sourcing and Proposal Development

• Partner with the client and team members to analyze program needs and provide consultative program strategies
• Conceptualize and design engaging and immersive Incentive travel programs
• Manage the RFP and proposal life cycle from creative conceptualization and written development through client agreements
• Develop and design proposals, write creative content to tell the story of the attendee experience for destinations proposed
• Research trends, destinations, hotels/resorts/cruises, venues, DMC’s, entertainment, themes, activities, program gifts and program enhancements
• Site selection, sourcing; negotiating all aspects of program pricing, contracts and addendums while maintaining the highest level of quality, professionalism and integrity when negotiating with suppliers
• Create detailed program budgets
• Provide consultative dialogue and destination knowledge assistance to internal teams to aid in the closing of sales
• Effectively communicate between account teams, clients and internal departments
• Prepare and execute client agreements, if required.
• Track, report, and audit cost savings and contract work within audit requirements
• Complete turnover deliverables and work closely with operations team to ensure definite programs are transitioned upon signature of client agreement
• Coordinate client destination and hotel site inspections, attend as requested
• Build proactive relationships with incentive client program owners and apply/adapt M&IW services accordingly
• Develop and maintain positive supplier relationships
• Professionally participate in applicable company and industry activities, events and potential speaking engagements
• Actively participate in remote based team meetings, trainings, team building
• Ability to work extended hours when working on short timelines
• Must be flexible to meet client needs, time zone differences and workload

What we expect:

Details of these areas are shared during interviews and monthly reviews:

• Cultural Excellence
• Role Expectations
• Emotional Intelligence

What you will bring:

• 7-10+ years in the incentive travel industry/incentive program Experience Design/international and domestic incentive travel purchasing and proposal development
• College degree or equivalent experience (Hospitality or Business degree preferred)
• Ability to travel as requested for site inspections and industry events including internationally (15%)
• Ability to work remotely and report to remote Manager / Director.

What we provide:

• Competitive salary
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance options
• 401K plan
• Paid holidays
• Accrued personal time off for vacation and sick leave
• Laptop, additional monitor, and mobile phone
• Global Giveback program for volunteer service
• Remote Office / Work from home, or option to work in our corporate headquarters located near Milwaukee

Who we are:
M&IW is a global event management firm specializing in virtual, hybrid, and in-person experiences of all shapes and sizes as well as consulting and enterprise strategies. As an entrepreneurial organization, we place customers at the center of everything we do and prioritize their needs through our core values of quality, agility, flexibility, and innovation. M&IW is a third generation, privately held, certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) in business for more than 50 years. Headquartered in Wisconsin, USA, and supported by a remote workforce across the US and in the UK, China, and Brazil.

M&IW provides a portfolio of management services for meetings, events, incentives, conferences, and tradeshows. Those services include Event Management and Design, Event Sourcing, Attendee Registration and Reporting, Event Technology and Production, Creative Services, Event Marketing and Communications, Gifting and Engagement Strategies, Incentive and Recognition Solutions, Group Air Travel, On-Site Execution and Staffing, and Event Analytics. Our consulting and enterprise services include Technology Implementation and Administration, Meeting Policy, Process and Optimization, Third-party Governance, Executive Dashboards and Analytics, and Sustainability Best Practices and Tracking.

GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS:        

10520 7 Mile Road, P.O. Box 65, Caledonia, WI 53108 | Phone +1 262-835-3553
www.meetings-incentives.com
M&IW associates located throughout the US, UK, Latin America and Asia Pacific Regions