Hotel Contract Executive

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