We are looking for a driven sales professional and travel enthusiast to join our contracting team in London. Our contracting team is responsible for developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with our hotel partners and in this role you will work directly with our hotel partners across the UK to inspire our members to escape in style.

About Secret Escapes

Secret Escapes is one of the world’s leading members-only, online travel deals companies, offering inspiring travel experiences and hand-picked offers to over 60 million members worldwide. Operating in 10 countries across Europe, Secret Escapes continues to grow and establish itself as a world-class business, dedicated to giving our members the best range and value in luxury travel deals at low prices.

Secret Escapes operates a flexible working policy and we are all in the office 1 day a week (minimum) and have core hours of 10am-4pm (you can make up the other hours to suit you). In keeping with being an inspirational travel brand, we also have a ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy, so you can work from anywhere in the world for up to a month each year!

We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch of individuals from different backgrounds and with varied interests, but the one thing we all have in common is that we’re good people (even if we do say so ourselves!). 

The role & what you’ll do

As a contracts manager you will be responsible for negotiating and improving offers across the UK. This ranges from country hotels and spas to chic and boutique in the city, from beach resorts to self catering apartments. 

The role reports into our Head of Hotels. 

Day to day you will be working on…

• Negotiating to ensure the best offers for your region. This happens 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
• Drive the commercial growth of your region by building strong relationships with decision makers in the supply chain
• Be 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
• Attend 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 

The Team

The UK contracting team at Secret Escapes is made up of results oriented individuals who are committed to securing the best deals from curated hotels and resorts. 

The team is a supportive and collaborative collective, focused on our mission to inspire the world to escape. We are open minded and use data and insights to devise hypotheses to test in as lean a way as possible. We are results oriented and focus on positively impacting targeted outcomes in the sweet spot between customer and business value generation.

You will bring …

• Excellent sales, business development with experience within the travel industry
• A strong negotiator - able to close deals
• Experience of building strategic partnerships with hotels
• Good knowledge of hotel revenue management 
• A target driven mindset with experience of working towards, and achieving, monthly targets
• Proven administrative and organisational skills, with the ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment
• Commercial astute with high numeracy and analytical skills

 And you are…

• Commitment to your work and an entrepreneurial ‘can do’ approach to business
• Target driven with a track record of hitting targets
• Analytical and have a commercial mindset
• Able to work in a dynamic environment and are solutions focussed
• Able to work independently to grow your region

We are an equal opportunity employer:

Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Secret Escapes and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.