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Aviation Manager

Employer
Travel Trade Recruitment
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Salary
Market Rate
Closing date
4 Dec 2019

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Sector
Tour Operator
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Job function
Commercial

Job Details

We are seeking an experienced Travel Industry Aviation Manager to join a dynamic Travel Company in Birmingham, to work closely with the head of aviation and commercial team. You will be responsible for the day to day account management of the airline portfolio. We are looking for a commercially minded manager with excellent negotiating and strong influencing skills.

Outline of Role: The Aviation Manager will be responsible for all aspects of Aviation, to include building of relationships with airlines, securing new deals and marketing funds, meeting sales targets and driving sales of preferred airlines through the business. The role will involve liaising with existing e sales customers, reservations and airlines.

Personal Requirements:
* Good communication skills
* Good attention to detail
* Strong customer focus
* Strong analytical skills
* Good organisational skills
* Excellent worldwide knowledge, airline and fares knowledge
* Strong computer and written skills

Main duties:
* Ensure that reservations team & e-sales managers are updated with new fares, special fares, changes to routings by communicating effectively daily fare updates and update vibe daily
* Produce airline reports for preferred airlines, flown revenue and booked revenue on a monthly basis vs commercial deals
* Assist Product Department by providing airline and long-haul content for offers for marketing
* Assist with GDS Relationship at operational level
* Organise, Attend and Minute Airline Meetings with Airlines and secure exclusive fares, marketing funds and Airline of the Months
* Monitor competitor activity and pricing against our own across Airlines on a weekly basis
* Monitor JTA websites and e-shots for accuracy, content and relevance and test
* Incentive management and co-ordination, including providing accounts with invoicing information and updating of spreadsheets.
* Specialist Fare Management, to include cruise fares, cat 35, e-global, corporate fares and one ways ensure that they are loaded into all GDS systems to include Amadeus, Galileo and Worldspan
* In conjunction with the training department conduct and help to co-ordinate airline training for reservations team
* Advise the reservations team of special fares and ensure that these are promoted throughout the reservation team
* Liaising with e sales customers to keep them updated with relevant new fares, special fares, changes to routings, drop netts via e-shot
* Analysing fares, airline information and identifying and proactively promote good deals to marketing, management and reservations.
* Liaise with MD to ensure that reports are prepared for airline meetings
* Liaise with MD to ensure that you have an awareness of commercial deals and performance for airlines
* Assist MD with Airline Marketing Plans, ensure they are kept updated and monitored
* Chase flown revenue updates from airlines on a monthly basis
* Keep knowledge of fares updated and cover on Reservations twice a week including Saturdays
* Drive information to crisis/help desk to deal with issues with bookings whilst client is in resort
* Advise reservations and aftersales team of any disruptions to airline services that will affect passengers and ensure that contingency plans are followed.
* Attend Marketing meetings
* Deal with Airline Issues.


THE PACKAGE:
A competitive starting salary is available for the successful candidate and this is negotiable and dependent on experience. In addition there will be a bonus and extensive benefits package, as well as solid opportunities for career development.

INTERESTED?
Please call Marie on 0121 450 9776 or email your CV to marie@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk
You can also apply via the link below.


Marie Heaven
Senior Account Manager
Travel Trade Recruitment Ltd
www.traveltradejobs.com
www.traveltradejobs.com.au

T. 0121 450 9776 | F. 0161 237 3982
TRAVEL TRADE JOBS: UK and AUSTRALIA




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Company

TRAVEL TRADE RECRUITMENT
Travel Trade Recruitment handles vacancies from hundreds of employers each year. We have a wide variety of permanent and temporary job opportunities within all sectors of the travel industry, including business travel, tour operations, retail travel, and reservations.
We want to help you find the ideal travel industry job, make the next career step, and maximise your potential. We do this by finding out about you, as well as what is important to your career goals and lifestyle aspirations.

TRAINING
We also offer CRS training courses in the four major systems of Galileo, Sabre, Amadeus, Worldspan, and can advise which course would enhance your career.
Find more details at www.traveltradetraining.com

VOTED 'BEST UKTRAVEL RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY'
Travel Trade Recruitment won three awards in 2009 for Best Travel Recruitment Consultancy, including 'Best UK Travel Recruitment Consultancy' at the Globe Travel Awards, Star Recruitment Consultancy at the Travel Bulletin Awards, and Travel Recruitment Company of the Year at the recent British Travel Awards. We are an official ABTA Industry Partner, Members of the Institute of Travel and Tourism (IATA) and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

All information supplied to Travel Trade Recruitment will be dealt with confidentiality. Your details will not be passed onto a Client without your specific permission.

Our service to job seekers is completely free. Contact your nearest office and speak our friendly consultants for free advice, or register for our online recruitment services at

www.traveltradejobs.com

London Office
Tel: 0203 887 9444
Email: london@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Birmingham Office
Tel: 0121 222 2624
Email: birmingham@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Manchester Office
Tel: 0161 923 6120
Email: manchester@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Leeds Office
Tel: 0113 394 4147
Email: leeds@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Scottish Division
Tel: 0141 248 5222
Email: scotland@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Temp Division
Tel: 0203 887 9444
Email: temps@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0203 887 9444
Location
3rd Floor, 1 Aldgate
London
EC3N 1RE
GB

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