Eating Europe, the absolute gold standard for culinary travel and food tours, a brand-new, top-tier C-suite position .Director of Marketing & Commercial Operations. This isn’t a job where you inherit a tidy, predictable playbook and sit back to watch the numbers roll in. This is a builder’s role reporting directly to the CEO. They are completely restructuring how they grow, and they need a heavy-hitting, deeply empathetic leader to tie their sales and marketing arms together into a single, high-performing revenue engine for the first time.
The Reality
Historically, Eating Europe’s Sales and Marketing teams operated in their own separate corners. Your primary mission is to smash those walls down so everyone is rowing in the exact same direction. You will lead a talented team of six in-house professionals, including a Sales Director, an OTA (Online Travel Agency) Manager, a Partnerships Coordinator, and various marketing specialists, while holding external agencies accountable for their SEO, paid ads, affiliates, and web development.
On any given week, your brain will be stretched across both high-level storytelling and hard data:
- The Growth Engine: You will own their entire digital footprint, constantly optimizing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), managing marketing budgets, and scaling SEO, PPC, email, and influencer campaigns.
- The Distribution World: You will oversee their channel strategy across major travel platforms like Viator, GetYourGuide, and beyond, ensuring their tours are booked out.
- Data Architecture: They don’t want a manager who just skims reports. You need to be analytically sharp enough to build a centralized commercial dashboard from scratch so the CEO has real-time visibility into the heartbeat of the business.
What makes Eating Europe different
Eating Europe is incredibly explicit about who they are. Their culture is warm, informal, and deeply human. They absolutely do not want a rigid, stuffy corporate bureaucrat. They are looking for a manager who values autonomy and coaching over micromanagement. If you are a blame-thrower or someone who manages through fear and ego, you will be rejected instantly. They want a natural mentor who builds genuine trust,someone whose team will willingly run through walls for them because they feel supported, heard, and empowered to grow.
What They Are NOT Looking For:
- A pure strategist who sits in an ivory tower and refuses to get their hands dirty in the operational details.
- Someone who needs a perfectly settled, predictable environment to function.
- A cold operator who doesn’t care about the product. You have to genuinely love food, culture, and the joy of travel.
The Non-Negotiable Requirements
Because this is a major leadership seat, the bar is exceptionally high:
- You need 8+ years in a senior commercial or marketing leadership role, with absolute P&L or budget ownership.
- You must be able to prove you have successfully defined or significantly evolved a consumer brand in the past.
- This is a remote role, but you must be based in Europe within the CET ± 1 time zone so you can easily collaborate with the team.
How to Win the Role
Because they are looking for a warm and deeply human leader, a clinical, robotic, or obviously AI-generated cover letter will get tossed into the trash immediately. They want to see your personality bleed through the page.
In your application, don’t just list your past job titles. Talk about your people leadership and your revenue outcomes. Tell the story of a time you inherited a siloed, frustrated team and coached them into a high-performing unit. Show them a time you built a data dashboard that changed a company’s trajectory, or how you successfully balanced brand storytelling with ruthless performance marketing.
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