Posted:
10/10/2024, 3:54:04 AM
Location(s):
Athens, Attica, Greece ⋅ Attica, Greece
Experience Level(s):
Junior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Sales & Account Management
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Role Summary
Manages hotel partners to be more successful on the company's platform, increasing value through comprehensive commercial conversations and interactions.
Experience
Minimum 2 years
Functional/ Technical Skills
Must hold full drivers license
Proficiency in English and Greek
Proficient communicator
Growing knowledge of sales techniques
Account management experience preferred
Role Expectations
• Develops relationships with hotel partners or their account team.
• Attends regular meetings at partner hotels to understand needs and expectations.
• Assists in creating opportunities (e.g., progress meetings, fact-finding/exploratory meetings) to build hotel partners accounts.
• Develops understanding of hotel partners business issues.
• Recommends products, services, and insights that will meet hotel partners needs.
• Completes basic account plans that outline tactics to acquire and/or maintain business.
• Develops a basic understanding of the financial impact of decisions/solutions on the organization and its hotel partners.
• Assists in conducting straightforward cost, benefit, and risk analyses of possible solutions and the implications not reaching an agreement.
• Identifies the key stakeholders in decision making for the account.
• Builds a working knowledge of products, technologies, offerings, etc., within scope of responsibility.
• Develops a broad understanding of competitors’ standard products and services.
• Understands the value and application of products, technologies, and offerings.
• Understands the importance of developing rapport and maintaining ongoing business relationships with colleagues and external hotel partners.
• Learns about hotel partners key leaders/decision makers from internal customer relationship management system.
• Develops basic understanding of hotel partners industry and competitive market and/or uses company's tools to access market-specific information and insight.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.Website: https://www.expediagroup.com/
Headquarter Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Employee Count: 5001-10000
Year Founded: 1996
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Reservations ⋅ Task Management ⋅ Ticketing ⋅ Transportation ⋅ Travel