Description
Qatar Airways is now recruiting for the role of Senior Account Manager Leisure to manage the Manchester region.
There will be some travel within the UK & overseas required as part of this exciting role.
Based in the Northwest of the UK, you will be responsible for managing relationships with Qatar Airways’ Leisure customers. You will be involved with developing a successful, consistent approach to local and multinational dealing, driving maximum revenue and minimum cost of sale. You will engage in joint sales and spaneting activity to grow the level and quality of QR revenue sold through these partners and driving efficiencies in the distribution processes.
Specific Accountabilities include:
Develop and maintain long-term strategic relationships with Qatar Airways (QR) Leisure clients.
Prepare account development plan to achieve mutual benefits.
Contribute to the formulation and implementation of QR sales strategy to maximise revenue opportunities, reduce cost of sale and generate channel shift where appropriate.
Review QR sales data with account portfolio to drive revenue.
Develop tactical Sales and Marketing activity in support of sales opportunities in Trade Partners.
Maximize value from spaneting spend and manage individual expenditure budget.
Provide regular Market Intelligence and feedback from customers and competitors.
Represent QR at trade events, promotions and sales functions, including supporting educational and familiarization visits.
Maximize sales opportunity/opportunities through partners i.e. Tourism Bodies, Hotels, Car hire.
Provide regular Market Intelligence and feedback from customers and competitors.
Qualifications
About you - The successful person will have:
Relevant customer facing commercial experience within the travel industry, ideally within Airline Sales and Marketing
Experience in negotiating contracts.
Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
Willingness for some travel as part of this role
You must have the current legal right to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role.
