Despegar

#DespegarTeam is a group of professionals dedicated to creating the best experiences in order to enhance people's lives by traveling. We work as a team, we get involved and we are not afraid to be wrong before learning how to do it.

Being part of #DespegarTeam is being able to grow and develop as professionals. We set goals and do not stop until we achieve them. We innovate, create, learn from mistakes, and thus, consolidate ourselves as the most important travel platform in Latin America.We solve problems and develop new IT solutions for the travel industry.

We have a new challenge for those who:

Are the key to their own professional growth and seek to maximize their talent

Are looking forward to create new high quality solutions and make things happen

Are exacting, competitive and do not get stuck

Responsibilities

• Develops and manages a strategy for new account development for the global market; includes networking, introductory letters, telephone contact.
• Maintain knowledge of market and competitive trends within the travel industry.
• Develop and execute a strategic business plan that meets or exceeds established sales goals and supports company revenue and profitability targets.
• Prepare and present powerful, persuasive sales presentations that effectively demonstrate the value proposition of Direct Travel’s products and solutions.
• Develop and maintain a robust prospect pipeline to continuously grow the business and generate sales.
• Act as a liaison between key customers and internal stakeholders, in order to meet account performance.
• Negotiate agreements, contract, overrides, SLA, incentives and marketing campaigns with partners.
• Deliver quantitative results, business understanding and strategic insights to partners.
• Identify new revenue generating opportunities and build business cases to prioritize.
• Suggest solutions and innovative ideas to meet client needs.
• Ability to travel quarterly to attend trade shows, conferences, or sales calls.

Position requirements

• Demonstrable background in sales within the travel industry.
• Have a high understanding of the travel industry, wholesale, API/XML knowledge basics.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in travel business to business sales.
• Ability to assess client’s business needs and advise decision makers on how HotelDO’s products and services can best meet their travel needsStrong commercial, negotiation, communications and organizing skills.
• Ability to work and thrive in a multi-tasked, ever changing fast paced environment.
• Analytical and proven track record in using data to drive strategy and make decisions.
• Existing strong relationships within the travel industry - bedbanks, OTA, TO and TA.
• Excellent in problem-solving.
• Ability to liaise, influence, drive action plans at senior level with our clients and internal stakeholders.
• Fluent English, oral and written skills. Any additional language is considered an advantage
• Based in Florida - work from home.

We have a new challenge for those who:

Are the key to their own professional growth and seek to maximize their talent.

Are looking forward to create new high quality solutions and make things happen

Are exacting, competitive and do not get stuck.

We offer:

📌Being part of leader company.

📌Be a team member of professionals who are passionate about traveling the IT world and make traveling possible to others.

📌Join a team that works with technology as a way of innovation a problem solving.

📌 Develop your own career in a competitive and challenging environment.

If you want to be part of a unique team in the travel industry, join us!

Choose Despegar as your next destination!

At Despegar we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where meritocracy and equal opportunities are integrated into all our talent management processes, fostering diversity as part of our constantly evolving culture.

Originally posted on Himalayas