Travel Product amp Contracting Manager
Travel Product amp Contracting Manager
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Inntravel is a widely respected leading provider of at your own pace selfguided walking cycling and other activity holidays across Europe. This is an exciting time to take on a role with us as we are benefiting from longterm investment to achieve ambitious growth targets deliver digital transformation projects and retain our place as market leader in the selfguided walking holiday market.
You will be part of our bright future our mission envisions our holidays serving as catalysts for personal growth environmental awareness and fostering meaningful connections with both nature and people.Join us on our journey creating extraordinary travel experiences for all.
We recognise and celebrate that every employee is an individual. Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace is reflected in the range of benefits we offer with some of the key highlights being:
- Enjoy 50% discount on holidays across all our brands for you and your family or friends
- Additional annual leave when you choose to swap a plane for a train
- Career pathing and continuous development opportunities
- Opportunity to take a workation for up to 6 weeks per year and work from anywhere in the world
- 2 volunteer days each year to give back to what is important to you
- A wellbeing resource hub and on site classes; yoga boxercise annual Steps challenge employee assistance programmes cash back health and dental plan
- Hybrid and home based roles
- Enhanced family leave allowances
This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days per week in our WhitwellontheHill office. Due to the beautiful remote location access to your own transport is essential. This is a fulltime position however work life balance is important to us and so we are open to discussion on flexible working patterns (minimum 4 days per week).
Salary:
About the role:
Being a Product and Contracting Manager is one of the best jobs in the travel industry! This role sits at theheart of the customer proposition and ensures we deliver our strategic goals as a business. It isinstrumental in creating the experiential holidays that Inntravel is famous for and which our customersadore.
This incredibly varied role sits at the heart of the current and more excitingly the future customerproposition at Inntravel. From scanning the market for travel consumer and competitor trends togetting out on the road to visit destinations and securing best rates and availability for our customersand ensuring we market our holidays to reflect their beauty this really is a varied role!
You will assess both existing products and develop new concepts using your wellestablished industrynetwork of contacts to stay up to date. Using all your insights knowledge and commercial awarenessyou will sit in a team that leads the business on our future strategy through regular planning meetingsacross Marketing Commercial Sales and Operations.
Am I the right person We are looking for your application to demonstrate:
- Demonstrable management level experience in a proposition development contracting orcommercial role ideally in travel.
- A thorough understanding of the selfguided holiday market and the ability to draw on market and consumer insights to develop new and existing product.
- A passion for designing commercially feasible product that also delivers an excellent customer experience is essential. Youll have a keen awareness of this sector of the travel industry and a ton of ideas on how you can further improve Inntravels product portfolio to meet customer needs and capitalise on market trends.
- Experience and confidence in dealing with contract negotiations and maintaining service level agreements with suppliers is essential.
- Collaboration is key to our success and youll thrive on working alongside Commercial Sales Operations and our Marketing teams.
- Excellent communication skills so that interactions with stakeholders (internal and external) is clear concise and effective.
- Ability to hit deadlines and manage concurrent tasks.
- You care deeply about the sustainability journey that Inntravel is on and will be able to work to a 3P bottom line (People Planet and Profit).
- Able and willing to travel regularly overseas to develop and enhance holidays in any of Inntravels destinations is essential.
- Ideally youll be fluent in at least one European language in addition to English.
- Previous experience of working within a tour operators Product or Commercial function is desirable.
- Good interpersonal skills with an ability to relate appropriately to suppliers customers and colleagues.
- Highly positive creative and selfmotivated but you must be a good team player working to shared objectives.
- Highly flexible can do attitude able to shift priorities in response to changing business requirements and new opportunities.
- Demonstrate a clear passion for travel (especially in Europe): the outdoors European culture traditions and heritage.
We aim to inspire individual discovery and our values will be close to your heart.
Diversity is to be celebrated. Life would be dreary and change would be slow if we all thought the same way. We challenge our ideas each other and our business partners always with respect and kindness.
Inntravel is part of Hotelplan Group a wellestablished and diverse family of specialist tour operators with a long tradition of developing and operating marketleading experiences. The family comprises ski walking and Laplandholidays with Inghams andSantas Lapland; adventure travel with Explore; and selfguided holidays with Inntravel. Sustainability and responsible tourism is at the core of everything we do and should be a passion for everyone employed by the group.
Employment Type
Full Time
