Contracts Manager, Secret Escapes
Luxury travel platform
Job no longer available
Luxury travel platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
Role
Who you are
- A proven Contracts Manager/Sales Manager within the travel industry with a track record of successful product roles
- Strong commercial mindset with some experience of negotiating contracts, closing deals and building strategic partnership with hotels is essential
- A start up mindset with the ability to independently grow your own region and hit ambitious targets
- Strong analytical and numerical skills
- Willingness to work under pressure in a dynamic environment and quickly address and resolve issues
- Good knowledge of hotel revenue management
- Fluent English or German or any other languages a bonus
- Good knowledge of Excel
- Excellent sales, business development and negotiation skills
- Boundless energy and commitment to your work and an entrepreneurial ‘can do’ approach to business
What the job involves
- Negotiating and improving the best offers for your region by evaluating product standards and monitoring performances
- Identifying a pipeline of sales that offer a constant diversity of product across your region, from country hotels and spas to chic and boutique in the city, from beach resorts to self-catering apartments
- Driving the commercial growth of your region by building strong relationships with decision makers in the supply chain
- An expert in your destination generating new leads and strategic acquisition of new product and fully understand the competitive landscape of the tourism trends of your region
- Attending trade shows and networking events in the travel industry that will result in positive returns of increase business and learning
- Liaising with other departments to drive the growth of your region
Our take
Secret Escapes operates a “members-only” site with hand-picked hotel and holiday time-limited offers. Each week it runs short ‘flash sales’ with as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, providing access to boutique experiences even to those who couldn't normally afford them.
The difference with online travel agents like Booking.com, is that Secret Escapes inspires travel by communicating great travel deals, rather than existing as a place where people visit to book trips they already have in mind. In fact, the majority of people who book through Secret Escapes say that they weren’t even planning trips to those destinations before doing so.
Like many of its travel market companions, Secret Escapes was affected by the pandemic, but survived due to an injection of investment from previously secured backers. The company smartly used the onset of mass customer service requests to better its customer service channels, and it now seems set to pursue the success it was on-course to achieve before this major upset.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2020
$72.6m
SERIES E
Jul 2018
$68.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $290.5m
Company benefits
- 20% staff discount of all Secret Escape bookings
- Holiday parties and quarterly results celebrations
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alex Saint
(CEO)Started his career in marketing at Unilever before founding a travel deals company in 2005 and then Secret Escapes in 2010.
Tom Valentine
(Marketplaces CEO)Studied Psychology at Oxford before starting his career at eBay in Strategy & Business Development.
Share this job