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Cruise Sales Manager
Role summary
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The Cruise Sales Manager is expected to lead and develop cruise sales through travel-agent, direct-sales, and commercial partnerships. Typical requirements include proven sales-management experience, strong knowledge of the travel or cruise industry, excellent communication and negotiation skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to meet revenue targets. The successful candidate should be confident managing relationships, analysing sales performance, preparing reports, supporting promotions, and identifying new business opportunities. Flexibility, teamwork, customer focus, and willingness to travel or work with international teams are important. Experience with sales systems, budgets, and market development would be advantageous.
Can I work on cruise ships?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: No host-country permit: a seafarer medical, safety training, a seaman's book, a US crew visa and a Schengen visa.
Watch for: Recruitment fees are banned on ships.
Official source: US Department of State: crewmember visa. Checked October 2026.
What the job usually comes with on cruise ships
Usual for cruise ships, varies by employer. Checked October 2026.
| Housing | Free cabin, usually shared |
|---|---|
| Meals | Free (by law) |
| Flights | Joining and home flights usually paid; free repatriation (by law) |
| Service charge | Passenger service charges pooled on many lines |
| Contract | 6 to 9 months on board, about 2 months unpaid between contracts |
| Leave | 2.5 days a month, often paid as cash |
| Income tax | Usually not withheld; depends on your home country |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises is the cruise division of MSC Group, a privately owned Swiss-Italian company with deep roots in global shipping and transportation. Headquartered in Geneva, MSC Cruises operates a large fleet serving destinations across Europe, the Caribbean, North America, South America, the Mediterranean, and other regions. The company offers family holidays, luxury experiences, entertainment, dining, excursions, and a wide range of onboard activities. MSC combines European hospitality with an international workforce and serves guests from many different markets. Its business includes passenger cruise operations, travel partnerships, sales, marketing, ship management, and onboard services. Employees may work in offices, ports, or onboard vessels and are generally expected to support high service standards, commercial performance, safety, and a multicultural guest experience.