Purchasing Executive - Accommodation

Antella Travel Recruitment are delighted to be working with our new client, who is focussed on Group Special interest Travel.

They offer unique tours to their clients and are a trusted partner of choice for a broad range of high quality tours and experiences.

They are now recruiting a Purchasing Executive for their accommodation and tour services throughout Europe and a focus on France.

The role

• Sourcing hotel space within the company’s portfolio for booked groups.
• Acquiring a competitive price for our client.
• Negotiating hotel rates and terms & conditions
• Developing relationships with hotels: exchanging feedback, providing updates, identifying ways of presenting group booking requests to each individual supplier to optimise outcome; dealing with supplier book-outs, supporting supplier complaint resolution
• Monitoring loadings of specific dates/locations and updating contracts in the internal system.

You will have

• A background of working in Travel and wanting to move into Purchasing
• A passion for travel and learning about new locations, cultures, and attractions.
• Ability to resolve problems, work with multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Proactive and able to work as under own initiative, and as part of a wider team.
• Ability to follow processes and procedures, highlighting potential ways to enhance them.
• IT literate with a working knowledge of Word and Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with accurate written and spoken English. Spoken and written languages are a benefit.

Benefits include

• Salary £28,000 - 33,000
• Annual salary reviews
• 25 days annual holiday + bank holiday
• Training and career development opportunities
• Access to health & Mental wellbeing

Antella recruitment is committed to working with our clients in creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to religion, national origin, race, colour, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.