Role Description:
The main objective of the Account Executive is to drive basic commercial advice to partners in their portfolio.
Proactively contacts partners, providing them with analysis, growth opportunities, feedback and informing and advising them about new products and services.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Pro-active communication with partners in the region by telephone and by internal messaging to assist with the development of Booking.com's business.
- Responsible for a portfolio of partners, the first point of contact, answering questions and following up when needed.
- Responsible for maintaining a stable relationship with the accommodation partners (i.e. frequent performance calls and contact to ensure they offer our customers the best availability and competitive pricing) at property level.
- Be knowledgeable on Booking.com's products so that their benefits and usage can be explained to Partners.
- Identify opportunities for partners that will help improve Booking.com's business by using its internal segmentation to prioritise.
- Identify new potential partner leads and pass these leads on for further follow up.
- Responsible for taking Customer Service escalations which relate to their managed portfolio and solving these in the most efficient manner for the business, partner and customer.
- Support the organization of events, such as workshops and webinars, for partners. Also expected to attend and participate in the partner events for their managed portfolio.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Solution oriented and results driven
- Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful
- Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team
- Ability to prioritise own workload and efficiently manage their time
- Strong and engaging communication skills
- Ability to influence partners over the phone to implement suggestions
- Eye for accuracy and ability to be analytical
- Language: English & Japanese written and verbal
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Application Process:
Let’s go places together:
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
Pre-Employment Screening
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