Job Opportunity in KSA at Booking.com as Senior Account Manager in KSA

Booking.com is offering a job opportunity for the best candidate for a Senior Account Manager in Saudi Arabia. The selected candidate will be entrusted with leading a team of Account Managers while Collaborating with his/her Area Manager to improve hotel availability and supply. And will also build quantity and quality reports on results and performance for information support to Booking.com BV in order to meet the demands of the visitors on the website.

This full-time position will be based in our Jeddah office.

Eligibility:

1. 2-4 years of experience in a comparable management function.
2. Affinity/experience within e-travel and/or hotel/travel industry.
3. Fluent in English and Arabic.
4. Enthusiastic, sense of responsibility, friendly and ability to work independently.
5. Quick and resourceful, flexible, accurate, strong analytical skills and an eye for detail.
6. Great face-to-face and telephone communication skills.
7. Self-starter who enjoys working in e-travel and hospitality.
8. Business-focused with a positive attitude
9. University background preferred.
10. Driver license.
11. Availability to travel 50% of the time.

Responsibilities:

• Managing a commercial team for an assigned region:
  • Manage the performance and outcome of individual team members (schedule individual meetings, provide motivational and developmental feedback, hold performance/appraisal conversations).
  • Define, steer, achieve operational/commercial performance goals of the team.
  • Be available and approachable to his/her team by creating an open and safe environment for them while also identifying and unlocking their potential.
  • Facilitate each team member’s development by creating learning opportunities and giving them the freedom to experiment.
  • Challenge them to think outside of the box
  • Provide the team with direction and focus by setting reasonable and realistic expectations for them.
  • Positively reinforce and empower them through recognition of their successes.
  • Be a role model by sharing your own passion, engagement, and commitment.
  • Drive change positively.
  • Secure business coverage by active recruitment.
•  Support Booking.com Strategy by managing assigned market:
  • Ensure partner & customer satisfaction through meeting defined service levels and delivering high-quality results.
  • Identify and evaluate business opportunities (adoption of local needs) and implement them with the relevant team.
  • Represent Booking.com on fairs and other market-related events within your assigned region.
  • Support and promote product development & innovations.  
  • Actively manage Key Accounts in his/her assigned region.
•  Collaboration:
  • Build & maintain effective relationships with your immediate and extended colleagues in order to deliver results.
  • Liaison with stakeholders to support team/market/company strategy.

Benefits:

This is a performance-based company that offers career advancement and competitive compensation, including bonus. 

About Booking.com:

Booking.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine for lodging reservations, headquartered in Amsterdam. The website has 28,425,726 listings in 148,470 destinations in 228 countries and territories worldwide. Each day more than 1,550,000 room nights are reserved on the website. The site is available in 43 languages.

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