Industry: Luxury Hospitality | Resorts | Leisure & Guest Experience

The Opportunity

Simplify Recruiting is supporting an international company in the premium marine and leisure sector with its continued expansion across Europe.

We are seeking a Business Development Manager based in Italy to develop the company's presence within the luxury hospitality market, focusing on resorts, hotels, beach clubs and leisure operators.

This is a hands‑on market development role for someone who understands the hospitality sector, knows how to build relationships with senior decision‑makers, and is comfortable developing a territory from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop new business with luxury resorts, hotels, beach clubs and hospitality groups.
- Build relationships with General Managers, procurement teams, recreation/watersports leaders and property owners.
- Develop direct sales as well as seasonal rental and revenue‑share partnerships.
- Identify and develop relationships with watersports operators, concession partners and activity providers.
- Manage the full business development cycle from initial engagement and demonstration through proposal, negotiation and implementation.
- Develop opportunities across multiple properties through hotel groups and management companies.
- Represent the business at relevant hospitality,



leisure and industry events.
- Maintain an active pipeline and provide regular forecasts and market feedback.
- Coordinate with European operations teams on seasonal requirements and customer deliveries.

What We're Looking For

- Experience in luxury hospitality sales, resort business development, leisure operations, watersports or guest experiences .
- Strong relationships within the Italian hospitality/resort market are highly desirable.
- Understanding of how hotels and resorts make purchasing and partnership decisions.
- Proven ability to develop new accounts and build a market from the ground up.
- Experience with rental, concession or revenue‑sharing models is an advantage.
- Strong commercial and relationship‑building skills.
- Fluent Italian and business English.
- Self‑directed and comfortable working remotely and independently.
- Willingness to travel extensively.
- An interest or background in boating, watersports or marine leisure is advantageous.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of developing a growing international brand's hospitality presence in Italy and build long‑term partnerships across the luxury resort and leisure market.

Candidates must be based in Italy and able to travel regularly.

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📌 Business Development Manager – Resorts & Hospitality (Italia)
🏢 Simplify Recruiting
📍 Italia