Hotel Contract Executive

Antella Travel Recruitment

Our client based in Central London, take great pride in being service-driven, offering an impressive range of solutions for both Groups and FIT travel.

They are currently recruiting a Hotel Contract Executive to support the London team; you will be supporting the Destination (Contracts) Manager within your market – London.

As a Hotel Contract Executive, you will undertake an array of tasks & responsibilities:

• Securing exclusive rates, inventory and conditions with a portfolio of hotels through negotiations and management of supplier relations.
• Achieving room night and/or revenue-based targets through on-going monitoring and optimisation of the competitiveness of contracted rates and availability.
• Be the hotel expert of your assigned region, having in-depth knowledge and understanding of your markets.
• Identify key new strategic accounts & suppliers within assigned market to be targeted
• Constant monitoring of competitiveness of negotiated and contracted rates. Monitor usage of contracted allocations
• Developing and ensuring strong relations with sales leaders and management worldwide.
• Analysing and evaluating data and providing recommendations to management based on the findings.

Hotel Contract Executive Skill attributes:

• Exceptional negotiation skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of an organisation including hotel management and owners.
• Recent experience within the hotel / tourism industry.
• Strong commercial skills with a working knowledge of hotel distribution. Up to date with hotel distribution channels and technology especially with regards channel managers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with robust verbal and written English.

Once your application has been received a team member will contact you and discuss your cv with you in more depth.