Supply Manager Scandinavia to Cambridge

Our client is the market leading online hotel reservations agency in Europe. Since 1996 they have expanded to 550 professionals within thier hotel, finance, internet technology and marketing teams and have built a company that provides online hotel reservations in the best possible way

Supply Manager Scandinavia

Base salary to 34000 + bonus

Cambridge, UK

Responsibilities:

? Manage and motivate team members;
? Take responsibility for coverage of the designated area;
? Together with Supply Director, set new areas for acquisitions;
? Personnel tasks (appraisals, training etc.);
? Analyse existing areas and improvement areas / solutions;
? Develop promotions based on seasonality of the appointed area.
? Create strategic plans;
? Visit our important hotels;
? Build and maintain contacts with hotels;
? Deal with negotiations and contracts for hotels;
? Constantly strive to improve availability and rates
? Produce and deliver quantity and quality reports;
? Responsible for after sales;
? Undertake visits to hotels, provide training where necessary;
? Advise hotels about internet strategies;
? Organise and coordinate Tourist Trade Fair visits;
? Market our brand name to hotels;

Requirements:
? Educated to degree level or equivalent;
? Some managerial / leadership experience;
? Exposure to Account management function in the hotel industry;
? Excellent knowledge of the Scandinavian hotel market;
? Customer focused, independent and target focused;
? Good communication and commercial skills;
? Written and verbal fluency in 2 or more Scandinavian languages and English. The preferred language combination is Swedish/Danish/English