Sales Manager, Jumeirah Zabeel – Jumeirah

Jumeirah Zabeel Saray is one of Jumeirah’s luxury hotel properties in Dubai, and this Sales Manager role is focused specifically on driving business from the Russia and CIS market, with a particular emphasis on luxury leisure travel and account relationships from that region. It’s a feeder-market specialist sales role within the hotel’s broader commercial team, rather than a generalist hotel sales position.

Day to day, the role involves building and maintaining relationships with travel agents, tour operators and corporate accounts in the Russia and CIS region, developing and executing sales strategies to grow bookings from that market, attending relevant trade shows or sales trips, and working closely with the hotel’s reservations and marketing teams to convert interest into confirmed, high-value bookings. Given the luxury positioning, expect a strong focus on relationship quality and account service alongside pure volume targets.

It suits someone with hotel sales experience, ideally with existing relationships or strong cultural and language fluency in the Russia/CIS market, who understands luxury travel buying behaviour and can represent a five-star property credibly to sophisticated travel trade partners. Strong relationship-building skills and comfort with travel for trade shows or market visits both matter.

Working for Jumeirah, a globally recognised luxury hospitality brand, offers strong brand credibility when representing the property to international travel trade partners and a genuine career platform within luxury hospitality sales.

Feeder-market specialist sales roles like this one are a significant revenue lever for luxury hotels, since a single strong account relationship with a travel agent or tour operator in a key source market can generate a steady, repeatable stream of high-value bookings over time. For Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, the Russia and CIS market represents a meaningful segment of luxury leisure travel demand, and this Sales Manager's relationships and account management directly determine how much of that demand the property captures relative to competing luxury hotels in Dubai. Luxury travel buyers from this market tend to value trust and relationship continuity with their travel trade partners, which means the quality of relationship management in this role has a compounding effect on repeat and referral business over multiple seasons. Strong performance here supports not just immediate occupancy and revenue, but the property's broader reputation within a specific, valuable international market segment that is expensive and slow to build from scratch if the relationship work isn't done well and consistently.

A Sales Manager role focused on the Russia and CIS luxury travel market builds highly specialised, in-demand expertise that stands out in the hospitality sales world, since relationship depth and cultural fluency with specific feeder markets are difficult skills to develop and highly valued by luxury hotel brands across the region. Working for Jumeirah specifically adds considerable weight to a hospitality sales resume, given the brand's global recognition and reputation within luxury travel, and the relationships built with travel trade partners in this role often become genuinely portable assets that travel with a sales professional across future roles. This kind of feeder-market specialisation, combined with luxury hospitality sales experience, positions someone well for senior sales leadership, director of sales, or regional sales roles within luxury hospitality groups, since hotel brands consistently value proven ability to grow revenue from a specific, well-understood market segment. The travel and trade show exposure that comes with the role also builds a strong professional network within the luxury travel trade more broadly, which is valuable for long-term career mobility across hotel brands and destinations. Taken together, this track record makes a strong, specific case on a resume aimed at the next step up in luxury hospitality sales, well beyond this one role at Jumeirah.

• Hotel sales experience, ideally within luxury or five-star hospitality
• Strong existing network or deep familiarity with the Russia and CIS travel market
• Russian language fluency is highly advantageous given the market focus
• Proven track record of developing travel trade and corporate account relationships
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills
• Willingness to travel for trade shows, sales trips, and market visits
• Bachelor’s degree in hospitality, business, or a related field