Vacancy title:
Account Executive

Jobs at:
Booking.com

Deadline of this Job:
28th September 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 10th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

Booking.com is one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, and the number one destination to book any type of accommodation. Our mission is to empower people to experience the world. Helping us do this is a diverse community of over 17,000 employees across 198 global offices, all connected by a love of travel and a passion for creating the perfect customer experience.
As an Account Executive your main task will be to provide support to new and existing accommodation partners, contacting, informing and advising them about how to meet the demands of the visitors on the Booking.com website. You will also build the accommodations webpages and training the new accommodations on how to use Booking.com’s extranet and how to use the systems that can improve their availability and supply. Furthermore you will offer support to the Account Managers with various tasks at the office.

JOB DETAILS:
Tasks

•  Day-to-day pro-active communication with partners in your region by telephone, by internal messaging and occasionally in person to assist with the development of the business;
  
•  Building productive relationships with partners to ensure that they offer the best availability and rate structure;
  Discuss opportunities with partners that will help improve business by using Booking.com BV’s internal tool of priority setting;
  
•  First point of contact for key local accommodation partners, answering questions and queries, taking action as needed;
  
• Participation in weekly team learning in your office;
  
•  Advise accommodation partners regarding their (potential)webpages on the Booking.com website and how they can amend data with respect to supply, availability, specials, promotions;
  
• Liaison person for properties to contact when they have questions by phone and the Account Manager are unavailable;
  
•  Providing support to properties or Booking.com BV in building the webpage for accommodations and/or maintaining property information on the Booking.com website;
  
•  Verify that the website has accurate information on properties and pictures of newly registered accommodations;
  
•  Delivering training by phone to new and or existing properties on how to use Booking.com’s extranet and rates & availability system;
  
•  Providing properties with information and advice mainly by phone, including follow-ups;
  
•  Looking after IT/administrative related tasks;
  
•  In consultation with the Account Managers, provide information support to Booking.com BV for new and existing accommodations;
•  Conduct daily/weekly rate and availability checks on various platforms;
  
•  Assist in the preparation of market visits, operational planning and projects;
  
•  Assisting in additional tasks and projects when needed
  
•  You will also need to be versatile, flexible and adapt quickly to the latest guidelines/changes from Booking.com BV.
  

Qualifications

•  Great face-to-face and telephone communication skills;
  
•  Fluent English;
  
•  Affinity/experience within e-travel and/or hotel/travel industry is a plus;
  
•  Pro-active, sense of responsibility and can work independently;
  
•  Ability to convince partners on the phone to implement suggestions;
  
•  Quick and resourceful, flexible, accurate, strong analytical and an eye for detail;
  
•  Team player, motivated and enjoys to work in e-travel and hospitality;
  
•  Business focused;
  

 Positive attitude;

•  Hotel School or University background preferred.
  The hiring company Bookingcom (Kenya) Ltd is one of Booking.com BV’s and/or BookingSuite BV’s support companies in Kenya. Bookingcom (Kenya) Ltd is looking for a Account Executive – Kenya (French). Booking.com BV is the company behind Booking.com™, the market leading online accommodation reservation service in the world. BookingSuite BV is the company which operates Booking.com’s™ newly established Accommodation Marketing Services division. All references to “Booking.com” refer to Booking.com BV.
  Department: Business Development & Support