Luxury Travel Sales Manager

Wild Nectar Collection is building a sustainable luxury travel sales organization in Portland, Oregon. This role is designed for someone who enjoys relationship-based selling and wants to help shape the sales method from the ground up, then lead a Portland-based team as demand grows. You will start with a smaller pre-funding commitment and transition into a full-time sales leadership position focused on direct selling, coaching, process building, and long-term growth.

Location: Portland, OR 97205 (in-person, not remote)

Compensation: USD 70,000 - 85,000 per year (targeted base after funding, plus commission and potential management bonus)

What you’ll do

• Partner closely with the founder to turn Wild Nectar’s relationship-based luxury travel approach into a repeatable sales method.
• Personally sell complex, high-value luxury, adventure, expedition, and custom travel to affluent clients.
• Document and continuously improve the sales process from discovery and qualification through proposal, follow-up, and closing.
• Build the training, tools, templates, standards, and CRM practices future Travel Curators will use.
• As the team grows, recruit, train, and coach a Portland-based sales team of Travel Curators.
• Review pipelines and client interactions, helping Travel Curators become exceptional relationship-based sellers.
• Create and maintain a sales culture rooted in trust, accountability, excellent judgment, and genuine care for travelers and team members.
• Work with Operations to improve booking processes, client handoffs, and the overall traveler experience.
• Help create much of the sales organization you will eventually lead.

What you bring

• Proven ability to sell, including personally selling complex, high-value travel directly to affluent clients (luxury, expedition, adventure, safari, cruise, or custom international travel).
• Strength in building trust: listen beyond the initial request, interpret true traveler intent, guide major decisions, follow up consistently, and close without making the relationship feel transactional.
• A track record of turning your own selling knowledge into a process others can learn.
• Supportive, kind management style with clear accountability and genuine care for people.
• Strong experience managing CRM and sales pipelines.
• Exceptional communication skills in writing and conversation.
• Warm, candid, emotionally intelligent, organized, and dependable working style.
• Comfort building systems and processes that do not yet exist.
• Comfort with technology, including AI-assisted workflows.
• Genuine care for conservation, cultural respect, and the future of travel.
• Ability to work closely with a Portland-based team in person (commuting distance or willingness to relocate).

Pre-funding to full-time: how growth works

Wild Nectar is preparing for a significant new growth stage, working with a capital advisory firm on its current funding round and speaking with prospective investors. The position is intended to transition to full-time employment once funding is secured, though timing and outcomes cannot be guaranteed.

Initial commitment (pre-funding): approximately 20 hours per month at $26/hour (about $520 per month). Regular in-person collaboration begins during the pre-funding phase.

After funding:

• Months 1-9: full-time in-person with a $3,600 monthly base plus 6% commission on personally generated gross travel sales.
• Month 10 and beyond: targeted base salary beginning at $70,000/year, plus 6% commission on personally generated gross travel sales above target, and a scorecard-based management-performance bonus of approximately 7%–20% of salary.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid time off