Supplier Partnerships Manager

Salary: circa £40,000
Reporting to: Head of Supplier Partnerships, Lodging
Direct reports: 0
Location: Home based with frequent travel

Who you would be working with…

The Advantage Travel Partnership is the UK’s pre-eminent business network representing travel agencies and travel management companies.

Its members are all independently owned travel businesses who operate across 750 locations throughout the UK, representing a large proportion of the UK’s travel agency landscape. In addition, Advantage’s global network footprint continues to expand with representation in 83 countries across 96 network partners who work together in servicing corporate accounts.

Collectively, as a global network our members generate over £15.6 billion in global sales annually - with £7.6 billion from travel sales from its UK membership - and cater for many millions of holidaymakers and business travellers by assisting them with their travel arrangements.

What you would be doing…

This is an amazing opportunity to join a fantastic company at an extremely exciting time. You, as a Supplier Partnerships Manager, would report to our Head of Supplier Partnerships, Lodging and work alongside a team of very friendly business travel professionals. The whole team works closely together and is tightly connected with the wider business, our member partners and business partners. This will give you the fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

The overall purpose of your job is to manage and maintain relationships with accommodation partners by ensuring the smooth execution of the annual processes, handling and analysing data. This role will also involve working closely with the wider Advantage team, particularly marketing to enhance supplier engagement.

To do this, you would…

Sell the Global Accommodation Programme and marketing packages to new and existing accommodation providers and hotel suppliers
Manage the RFP process for the Global Accommodation Programme and handle supplier partner queries
Support the annual RFP process in contracting over 60,000 properties
Monitor the GDS rate loadings for the Global Accommodation Programme
Meet with existing supplier partners offering regular account management meetings and looking at how to maximise existing partnerships
Meet with prospective supplier partners
Maintain the company database of accommodation contacts to ensure it is up to date
Run regular reports from an online system to better manage supplier relationships and accounts
Collate reports and stats from supplier partners
Be responsible for supplier partner invoicing processes
Attend regular events to network with existing and new partners
Work with the marketing team to implement effective marketing plans for supplier partners
Work with the rest of the Advantage team, to keep them updated on developments within your supplier accounts and support them with any troubleshooting queries where necessary

To be successful in this role, you would have experience of…

Working in business travel (highly preferable)
Working in a sales environment, competent in face-to-face meetings and selling
Microsoft Office especially MS Excel, PowerPoint, databases, and other internal systems
Working with and supporting marketing processes
Communicating externally while understanding your audience (adapting the message accordingly)
Meeting strict and tight deadlines on a regular basis

And be…

A fantastic communicator taking into consideration your audience
An excellent team worker, able to adapt own ways of working to work around others
Able to organise own workload to ensure satisfactory delivery to a large number of internal and external customers
Focused on supplier & member engagement
Direction focussed to ensure successful goal completion
Flexible when things do not go exactly to plan, and who still meets deadlines
Enthusiastic and conscientious about going that extra mile for the team
An excellent team player
A natural influencer and negotiator
Able to prove your right to work in the UK

What you get in return

Immediately after you start:

Single cover Private Medical Insurance (plus ability to include dependants at an additional cost)
25 days leave, plus Bank Holidays, increasing a day per year after two years’ service (to a max of 28 days)
Ability to buy an additional 5 days of leave per year
Birthday off
Volunteering day off
Reward Gateway – benefits, discounts, and well-being platform
Great travel discounts
Eye care – up to £60 per year
Life Assurance Cover (4 x salary)

After 3 months:

Contributory pension scheme - employer contributes a generous 5% (minimum 3% employee contribution)

And then after probation:

Contribution to gym membership
Cycle 2 Work scheme (salary sacrifice)
Potential non-contractual end of year bonus (terms and conditions apply)

You want to apply? Excellent. Here is how…

It is easy. All you need to do is send us your up-to-date CV. Send all details and questions to [email protected]

Due to not having a sponsorship license, we can only accept applications from people within the UK who can prove their right to work.

At Advantage, we embrace the diversity of culture, gender, physical capability and thought. We firmly believe that true innovation cannot happen without this real-life variety in our working community. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where people of all walks of life aspire to work.