Account Manager Hotels Benelux - Belgium

Booking.com B.V., part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the leading worldwide online hotel reservations agency by room nights sold, attracting over 30 million unique visitors each month via the Internet from both leisure and business markets worldwide.

Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. guarantees the best prices for any type of property, ranging from small independent hotels to a five star luxury through Booking.com. The Booking.com website is available in 41 languages and offers over 186,037 hotels in 163 countries.

Development opportunities abound at Booking.com, where your ambitions will be encouraged. Become a part of our fast-paced, innovative work environment by lending your expertise, or come aboard ready to learn and grow!

Most of all... have fun while you do! With over 3300 employees globally, we make sure hard work pays off with a relaxed working environment and plenty of fun after hours.

BOOKING.COM is the market leader of online hotel reservations in Europe. Since 1996 our team has expanded to 3000+ professionals from hotel, finance, internet technology and marketing businesses and has built a company that provides online hotel reservations in the best possible way. We believe that the passion of our employees is our strength and this is what drives us towards outstanding performance.

Does a successful career to you mean challenges and delivering results?

We offer a dynamic, pleasant and sophisticated work environment. A culture that is open, innovative and performance orientated. Our scale and scope, Amsterdam roots, commitment to people, and high standards of integrity make BOOKING.COM a great place to work. If you would like to be part of our team, if you think you can make a difference, have a closer look at this job opening for our new office in Brussels:

The Role:

You will work from our office in Brussels however you will be travelling at least 50% of the time. You will be working as an Account Manager Hotels responsible for a specific region.

Your main responsibility is to ensure close commercial contact with our hotel partners in order to identify areas of improvement and optimize their commercial performance. You will acquire new hotel partners. As Account Manager Hotels, you are responsible for the commercial relationships with hotels, to ensure the hotels cooperate with us in the best possible way. You will maximize revenues and meets the demand of our visitors on Booking.com.

You will be reporting to the Senior Account Manager Hotels.

Required Skills
Create strategic plans;
Acquisition of new hotel partners
Visit our important hotels;
Responsible for area coverage;
Take care of the contacts with hotels;
Be a medium for complaints and problems;
Practice allotment management; getting more availability and better rates;
Deliver quantity and quality reports;
Responsible for after sales;
Accompany and train hotels with implementation of system;
Advise hotels about internet strategies;
Organize and coordinate workshops for hotels;
Expand and take care of networks;
Market our brand name to hotels

Bachelors degree;
1 - 3 years of experience in a relevant Sales function in the internet or hotel industry;
Living around Brussels area;
Perfect knowledge of the Belgium market;
Experience in the hotel industry is a must;
Affection with online market;
Customer focused, independent, sense of responsibility and target focus;
Good communication and commercial skills;
Knowledge and skill Dutch/Flemish, French and English;
Driver’s license.

Competitive