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Director, Solutions Sales Strategy
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Director, Solutions Sales Strategy
About the role
Travel obsessed? Tech enthusiast? At Travelport, we’re dedicated to simplifying the complexities of travel for booking platforms, agencies, and travellers alike. From bucket-list destinations to corporate outings, our technology powers seamless bookings—now we need strategic thinkers to shape how we bring these solutions to market.
This is a Director-level role focused on Solutions Strategy & Commercialisation, acting as the critical bridge between Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customers. You’ll turns abstract product capabilities into high-impact, customer-first GTM plays that drive revenue, scalability, and customer adoption.
Key themes: ✔ From complexity to clarity – Translating technical value into commercial success ✔ Solution-first selling – Shaping meaningful propositions, not just product pit-pitches ✔ Process-building – Creating re-usable playbooks, account plans, and organisational alignment
#LifeatTravelport has the answers. Search on LinkedIn to see why our team thrives here.
Why this role matters
Travelport’s vision? Frictionless travel experiences. Yours will be to bake that simplicity into our sales approach—ensuring every solution solves real customer problems, scales across segments, and maximises monetisation.
You’ll sit at the heart of our GTM (Go-To-Market) engine, influencing:
- Priority customer segments (TMCs, OTAs, Airlines, Hotel Chains, Aggregators)
- Emerging opportunities (AI-driven operational efficiency, NDC/Hyper-personalisation)
- Cross-functional alignment: Sales, Product, Customer Success, Consulting, Enablement
This is a force multiplier to shape Travelport’s future—compression of time-to-market, higher sell-through rates, and predictable revenue lifts. Forget "nice-to-have"—you’re delivering what our customers need to win.
Core responsibilities
Strategy & Execution
- Define high-value solution plays – Map customer pain points, target segments, packaging strategies and revenue hooks—grounded in actual product-readiness, competitive real estate, and implementation feasibility.
- Lead customer segmentation – Identify priority accounts (ICP,álóft-Bahandi@",_"arget-light@accounts), their buying triggers, and winning narratives.
- Own the "how" – For each priority play, document:
- Problem definition, use cases, commercial opportunity
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- Sales entry point, attach/update ability (how we add value to existing relationships)
- Differentiate from product marketing – Focus on commercialisation, not messaging. Maintain strategy execution rather than getting stuck in organisational politics.
Playbook & Process Building
- Develop GTM playbooks – Standardise stories, qualification criteria, objection responses, and sale follow-path. Recon émissions’ábamos on boardthées agoActivation”dé theavadmedia резултат’s annoyance’mmentéb_behaviour: which RCTs en naive the building"} some errorasures that are "plain"-undeed forms – manage sales practice better in aulage and sobra seeing.
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- Drive continuous improvement – Capture lessons from Customer Success, Sales Consulting, and Revenue Enablement. Advise Product Marketing & Engineering on future roadmap focus based on real customer feedback.
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Operational Ownership
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- Calibrate metrics for execution – Measure pipeline contribution, adoption rates, attach revenue. Show concretely how GTM plays drive measurable impact.
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