BookaBed is currently recruiting a Tactical Product Assistant, to be based at the company’s Ashbourne Office, Co Meath. 
Reporting into the General Manager, the key purpose of the job will be to initiate and facilitate tactical promotions with travel agent partners on various media channels. The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring that all opportunities are explored and will work with BookaBed’s Destination Management Companies to ensure maximum exposure of products from agent advertisers.
Principal Responsibilities – Relationships:
- Ability to build productive working relationships with agents in the UK and Ireland
- Maintain regular contact with Commercial Department and Key Account Managers from Destination Management Companies
- React to requests for specific deals, formulate and communicate offers in timely manner
- Suggest new products that will work well for promotions
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of the type of offers required for each media platform
- Ability to successfully benchmark offers against the market and assess suitability for sale
- Analyse market trends and maintain an awareness of competitor promotions, flight pricing, availability that will directly affect the success of different campaigns.
Other Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the loading of exclusive offers to agent accounts is viewable online
- Production and communication of statistical reports to monitor campaign effectiveness
- Liaise with specific hotel chains and channel managers to ascertain best approach for direct hotel supply
- Contract individual hotel supply as dictated by agency partners and company requirements
- Compile weekly in-house specials for IRL and UK databases.
Experience Skills and Competencies:
- Must have extensive experience within the travel industry
- Ability to identify potential sales opportunities
- Methodical and systematic worker able to work to very tight deadlines
- Ability to prioritise and multitask effectively in order to manage multiple promotional campaigns simultaneously
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
