Booking.com is the world’s #1 accommodation site and the 3rd largest global e-commerce player. The company is looking for a Connectivity Partner Business Manager.
Responsibility:
Assist Booking.com by developing yearly business plans with premier partners, with clear objectives and commitments around marketing, skills development and business growth. Review the plan on quarterly basis and take corrective actions when needed.
Pro-actively drive the execution of the business plan and keep an eye on the mutual return on investment.
Help Identify new potential connectivity partners, recruit and onboard them.
Serve as an advocate for the partners within Booking.com Local Partner Services teams.
Ensure the partners are able to represent Booking.com and its value proposition to (mutual) accommodation partners.
Represent Booking.com on technology industry events within your territory.
Assist Booking.com driving and initiating activities to recruit new accommodation partners or by finding ways to improve the performance of accommodation partners on its platform.
Monitor business needs and work closely with internal Product- and Commercial Owners in Amsterdam to help developing new features.
Help identify new ideas for investment, working with partners to identify areas to improve the offering that would drive better guest and accommodation experience.
Skilled:
3+ years of experience in partner development, business development in the technology industry.
Experience in hotel technology space and knowledgeable of OTA (Open Travel Alliance) specifications, XML based messaging and SQL are a strong plus.
Understanding of cloud business models and how applications & services are brought to market.
Experience with technology platforms and solutions with a reasonable level of technical proficiency.
Ability to manage projects across multiple departments and stakeholders.
Ability to effectively present to and engage with C-Level executives.
Passionate about technology and support: You live and breathe to create solutions, and you love the feeling of satisfying partners and building long lasting, impactful business relationships.
Organized: Putting things in order, and optimizing for efficiencies comes naturally to you. You tend to plan ahead and accordingly.
A self-starter: Motivated by an end result? Driven by your own performance, yet actively want to contribute to a team? Show us your strengths.
Flexible: Willing to face all challenges with enthusiasm, and positivity. Can bend and twist with the changes as they come your way.
Ability to solve complex problems, deal with constraints and can come up with creative solutions.
Fluent in English and one of the three languages (German, Polish or Russian) both spoken and written.
