Sales and Marketing Executive - Online Travel Agency

The Sales Executive Online Travel Agency (OTA) is responsible for managing the day to day relationships with partners and monitoring the activities and performance to ensure that optimum results are achieved.
In this role, you will coordinate with local Account Managers and regional offices to support and steer for target achievement.

Specific responsibilities of the role includes:

- Ensures OTA Channel strategy is implemented
- Complies with agreed guidelines for OTA account management
- Develops and maintains long term strategic relationships with OTA partners
- Monitors global activity, parity and competitiveness as well as ensures up-to-date market intelligence to best position us in the online trade channel
- Conducts regular conference calls to discuss monthly reviews with partners and field colleagues
- Prepares an account development plan to achieve short, medium, and long term mutual benefits for both global partners and Network Sales.                        
-Works on generating offline business with OTA partners.
- Follows and reports on channel relevant industry information and keep up to date with industry trends at all times
-Promotes and Sells other offline products to the partners to meet the targets.
-Builds and strengthens the partnership with Hotels and DMCs to assist to build packages for Destination Turkey.

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree with 5 to 10 years of job-related experience.
• Knowledge of the Online Travel industry and Online Travel Agencies’ critical success factors is important to be successful in this role.
• You must have OTA sales/ account management and trade knowledge as well as exposure to global market trends.
• You will have excellent English & Turkish written and verbal communication skills with strong ability to negotiate.
• We need you to have strong influencing skills, strong leadership ability and innovative mindset.
• Strong analytical abilities, good knowledge of online marketing, pricing and distribution technology and excellent relationship building skills are important requirements of the role.