Ezeego1 - Hotel Contracting Role

Key Areas of Responsibility

- Extensive Research to understand the accommodation and commercial environment in each designated destination.

- Deliver a quality selection of 2-5 star hotels and other accommodation units in core destinations by negotiating new contracts and renegotiating current arrangements.

- Presenting the large number of varied global options to accommodation suppliers and finalising the best deals to deadline.

- Continuous monitoring of competitors to ensure competitiveness in the marketplace.

- Building year round rapport with accommodation suppliers to ensure a continued supply of the best possible rates, allotments and special offers through on-going renegotiation.

- Understanding the complexities of modern distribution and connectivity channels.

- Working closely with product teams in individual business units to ensure contracted product is relevant and facilitates their growth plans.

- Synergy with internal clients, Product, Sales, Finance to facilitate communication internally and with suppliers.

- Studying destinations and determining the suitability of accommodation to be included in different programmes.

- Organising trips for face to face negotiations and attending relevant exhibitions.

- Meeting deadlines and targets

- Follow thorough approach to the administrative aspects of contract delivery.

- Finalize rates targets by destinations.

- Delivery of product portfolio by destination

- Sales volumes into hotels

- End customer and internal client satisfaction and quality measures.

- Versatility to buy European Product successfully for global markets.

- Effectively negotiating accommodation contracts.

- Hotel contacting focussing on key values and different requirements of our specialist companies.

- Maintaining rates competitiveness

- Build good relations with accommodation providers both independent and chains.

- Flexible to travel.

- Responsible for the strategic negotiation of accommodation contracts within a given territory.

- Representing all relevant brands in a given territory and meeting the specific market requirements of all internal Clients selling the destinations.