Scenic appoints Riviera's Joseph Grimley

Grimley will become director of trade sales, Scenic Group UK, moving over from his role as Riviera’s head of sales. He will work across the group portfolio of Scenic River Cruise, Scenic Eclipse, Scenic Land Tours and Emerald Waterways River and Ocean Cruises.

He will have full responsibility for leading a sales team of 10 supporting Scenic Group UK’s agency sales and key agency partners.

Meanwhile Dawn Quinn, current head of trade sales for Scenic Group UK is taking a sabbatical for 12 months for family reasons.

Elsewhere, Steven Morrow joins from Regit as digital marketing manager, Scenic Group UK, and Laterooms.com’s Martin Solly joins as brand manager, Scenic Eclipse.

Additionally, following the promotion of Rachael Shaw to global head of yield and revenue management, Scenic Group the UK business has also strengthened its commercial team with a string of new hires: Chris Matthews as commercial manager, Kerry Weldon, commercial analyst and Mohammad Patel as commercial analyst.

Colin Downing, managing director, Scenic Group UK, said: “The Scenic Group UK had a very strong year last year and we’ve continued that success through 2018.

“As part of our continuous investment programme we are pleased to announce a number of important and senior hires that further strengthen our breadth and depth.”

He added: “We are more than happy to be supporting Dawn through this period and look forward to her return in the near future. I’m pleased that Dawn will continue on a consultancy basis to support a number of key projects for us.”

Grimley said: “I joined Riviera six years ago and helped them build their agency portfolio to what it is today.

“While it’s been a great journey I feel it’s now time for some new challenges and opportunity.

“I’ve always admired Scenic and its sister brand Emerald Waterways, they are two great businesses that are very pro agency trade and have a best in class portfolio of quality products. It’s also a pleasure to be working again with Colin.”