Role Summary
Manages hotel partners to be more successful on the company's platform, increasing value through comprehensive commercial conversations and interactions.
Experience
Minimum 2 years
Functional/ Technical Skills
Must hold current UK drivers license
Proficiency in English
Proficient communicator
Growing knowledge of sales techniques
Account management experience preferred
Role Expectations
• Develops relationships with hotel partners or their account team.
• Attends regular meetings at partner hotels to understand needs and expectations.
• Assists in creating opportunities (e.g., progress meetings, fact-finding/exploratory meetings) to build hotel partners accounts.
• Develops understanding of hotel partners business issues.
• Recommends products, services, and insights that will meet hotel partners needs.
• Completes basic account plans that outline tactics to acquire and/or maintain business.
• Develops a basic understanding of the financial impact of decisions/solutions on the organization and its hotel partners.
• Assists in conducting straightforward cost, benefit, and risk analyses of possible solutions and the implications not reaching an agreement.
• Identifies the key stakeholders in decision making for the account.
• Builds a working knowledge of products, technologies, offerings, etc., within scope of responsibility.
• Develops a broad understanding of competitors’ standard products and services.
• Understands the value and application of products, technologies, and offerings.
• Understands the importance of developing rapport and maintaining ongoing business relationships with colleagues and external hotel partners.
• Learns about hotel partners key leaders/decision makers from internal customer relationship management system.
• Develops basic understanding of hotel partners industry and competitive market and/or uses company's tools to access market-specific information and insight.