Contracting Manager - Wiltshire / Hybrid
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- Salary and benefits
- Up to £40,000 plus excellent benefits
- Contract length
- Permanent, Full time
- Locations
We have a fantastic opportunity for a pro-active travel industry professional to join a leading cruise specialist company as a Contracting Manager for the Europe and Middle East. The main objective of the role is to own and negotiate the worldwide procurement of non-cruise products, with a focus being to protect core products and develop the depth and breadth of a sustainable ground portfolio that will drive business growth. To create and maintain strong contractual relationships with our client’s key suppliers, ensuring a good mix of both competitive and exclusive rate agreements.
The role will suit those with a passion for the travel sector and experience in contracting, negotiating and maintaining new supplier partnerships and in return, our client is offering up to £40k, with industry benefits.
The role is office based in Wiltshire with the potential of hybrid working. Mon – Fri, 9 – 5.30. If this role is of interest to you, please visit our website or apply online.
Role of Contracting Manager:
- Manage the briefing and contracting timetable with the Product teams, managing expectations around deadlines and budgets
- Develop and maintain key supplier relationships with jointly agreed vision and strategy.
- Drive agreements that are regularly reviewed and nurture agreements to negotiate industry leading rates and unique products.
- Develop a travel timetable to research and negotiate product briefs creating new supplier opportunities and well as strengthening current agreements.
- Monitor destination arrival statistics and seek strategic initiatives in order to drive incremental market share.
- Agree and take ownership of processes with the Operational team to ensure contracted products are operationally viable and provide an excellent customer journey.
- Develop sales, room night, rate data, year on year, competitor analysis and recommend rate requirements to help aid negotiations.
- Communicate risks and recommendations to negate to the Director team.
- Review Customer Feedback and look to ways to improve ground products and the customer journey with the product and service team.
- Manage any customer complaint escalations and drive compensation recovery where appropriate from suppliers.
- Understand the of pricing strategy, margins and volumes associated with each contracted product
- Own contracting plan to support the Up-Sell Strategy (post booking / pre departure sales)
Skills required for the role:
- A passion for the worldwide travel sector
- Experience in contracting, negotiating and maintaining new supplier partnerships
- Strong pro-active, dynamic, passionate and a team player.
- Experience in negotiation skills preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills plus excellent numeric ability
- Excellent attention to detail, innovative thinker, and creative problem solver
- Ability to undertake travel abroad when required by the business
If you are interested in learning more about this Contracting Manager role, please press the apply online button now!
Reference: SR/0779
Call: 0161 408 0357 / 0358
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