Position Overview​

Full time, virtually based. Please email resume and cover letter to hello@travellustre.com

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TRAVELLUSTRE is seeking an experienced, highly relationship-driven Director of Partner Relations to lead and evolve our global partner strategy across the luxury travel industry.

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This individual will serve as a key liaison between TRAVELLUSTRE and our network of luxury hotel, cruise lines, destination management companies (DMCs), tourism organizations, lifestyle partners, and other preferred suppliers. 

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This is a highly visible role requiring an individual who understands the luxury travel landscape, values long-term relationships, and can move beyond transactional partner management to create strategic opportunities for our advisors, partners, and organization.

The ideal candidate brings strong industry relationships, polished communication skills, excellent judgment, and a genuine understanding of what makes a partnership valuable on both sides.

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Key Responsibilities

• Partner Relationship Management: Serve as a primary relationship point for TRAVELLUSTRE’s global partner network, cultivating strong relationships with luxury hotels and resorts, hotel brands, cruise lines, DMCs, tourism organizations, lifestyle brands, and other strategic partners.

• Partnership Strategy: Work alongside the CEO, COO and leadership team to develop and execute a partner strategy aligned with TRAVELLUSTRE’s growth, advisor needs and overall brand positioning.

• Strategic Partner Development: Identify opportunities to establish new relationships and deepen existing partnerships with organizations that bring meaningful value to TRAVELLUSTRE advisors and their clients.

• Industry Affiliations: Help manage and optimize TRAVELLUSTRE’s relationships and opportunities through preferred hotel & cruise programs, Virtuoso, Forbes Travel Guide, and other key industry affiliations, ensuring the organization and its advisors are maximizing available benefits, programs, resources, and visibility.

• Advisor & Partner Connectivity: Develop meaningful opportunities to connect preferred partners with the TRAVELLUSTRE advisor community through education, introductions, events, trainings, webinars, destination updates, and other strategic engagement.

• Partner Education & Programming: Collaborate with Advisor Success to develop partner-facing educational programming that provides advisors with relevant product knowledge, destination expertise, industry intelligence, and relationship access.

• FAM & Experiential Opportunities: Manage and evaluate FAM invitations, site inspections, inaugural sailings, partner experiences, and other industry opportunities, helping ensure access is thoughtfully aligned with advisor business, production, and development goals.

• Events & Industry Engagement: Coordinate TRAVELLUSTRE’s partner engagement surrounding key industry events, conferences, trade shows, retreats, and company programming. Represent TRAVELLUSTRE at select industry events and partner meetings.

• Preferred Partner Value: Ensure advisors understand and effectively leverage preferred partner programs, amenities, relationships, and benefits to enhance the client experience and strengthen advisor value.

• Partner Communications: Oversee partner-facing communications and ensure important updates, openings, promotions, product developments, and opportunities are effectively communicated internally.

• Partner Intelligence: Stay closely connected to developments across luxury hospitality, cruising, destinations, and the broader luxury lifestyle landscape, identifying emerging brands, products, destinations, and partnership opportunities relevant to TRAVELLUSTRE.

• Relationship Stewardship: Ensure partners experience TRAVELLUSTRE as a responsive, professional, collaborative, and valuable organization with clear communication and thoughtful engagement.

• Performance & Engagement: Develop methods for tracking partner engagement and identifying opportunities to strengthen relationships, increase advisor participation, and create greater mutual value.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the CEO, COO, Advisor Success, operations, marketing, and advisor community to ensure partner strategy supports broader organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Luxury travel, hospitality or related industry experience strongly preferred.

• Experience working with luxury travel advisors, hotels, cruise lines, DMCs or other travel-industry partners is highly desirable.

• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills.

• Strong organizational and project-management abilities.

• Confidence representing a luxury brand internally and externally.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.

• Comfortable with technology, CRM platforms, knowledge-management systems and evolving AI tools.

• Strong writing and presentation skills.

• A collaborative, entrepreneurial mindset

Schedule & Compensation

• Full time, Monday - Friday 9am - 5:30pm EST

• Salary commensurate with experience

• Benefits package to be discussed during interview process