Duties include but not limited to:

• Support the Business Development Manager on the Distribution Team to manage a portfolio of distribution partners from corporate to leisure travel
• Manage partnership relationships from contract negotiations and onboarding to day-to-day queries and post-booking processes
• Monitor performance and report on weekly figures to senior stakeholders
• Manage invoicing process with partners to ensure payments get paid and received in a timely manner
• Attend bi-weekly meetings with partners and tech teams to ensure timelines are on track to reach set goals
• Become the main point of contact for partners to help answer, escalate, and delegate any queries
• Research business and industry trends to identify potential new clients and ways to serve existing clients in corporate travel
• Prepare client presentations and materials, including PowerPoint and sales displays
• Preparing and delivering pitches to potential new leads
• Negotiate business terms with new and existing clients using phone, email and in-person meetings
• Sales statistics, calculating metrics such as return on investment (ROI), pipeline value and qualified leads per month
• Work cross-functionally with the whole marketing department to meet and surpass team objectives

Requirements:

• 1 + years’ experience in Sales, Business Development, or similar role
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies, Sales, Marketing, or similar field.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to present and explain ideas to a variety of audiences
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Enthusiastic to build good relationships with people
• Previous GDS/ travel distribution experience would be an advantage
• Proficient in MS Office

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Discounted and unlimited travel to over 230 destinations
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
• Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary
• 20 Days Annual Leave – increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days 3 years of continuous service
• Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
• Cycle 2 work scheme 
• Unrivalled career progression