Contracting & Product Manager (m/f)

For our department Product Managementwithin LuxairTours, we are looking for a (an):

Contracting & Product Manager (m/f)

Main duties:

• Manage, plan and develop a portfolio of touristic destinations
• Actively negotiate and sign commercial contracts of different accommodation suppliers and other third parties at destination
• Constantly negotiate last minute / special offers from suppliers in relation to the market demand, the flight occupancy and/or responding to requests from the yield & revenue management department
• Prepare, work out and propose a business plan per season for your destinations
  Increase the efficiency, profitability and the turnover on your destinations according to individual objectives
• Have a good knowledge and affinity of the digital contracting environment and its best practices
• Understand the implications of external market dynamics and competitor activity on the business
• Be willing to travel on regular basis to your destinations for duty purposes
• Constantly analyse the competition, the markets and the suppliers on your destinations
• Prepare & conduct occasional projects, workshops and concept development
• Control and validate the commercial presentation of the product pages of each off- & online channel
• Control the quality of the offered products on your destinations, in cooperation with the quality department
• Maintain and strengthen business relationships with your suppliers
• Prepare and provide different documents related to the products and the purchasing process
• Be the main contact for your destinations and products for all internal departments and stakeholders
• Ensure the different administrative tasks related to the department.

Required profile:

Minimum required criteria:

• Have a master degree in tourism or equivalent confirmed work experience
• Demonstrate strong expertise in the Contracting & Product Management gained in the classical and/or digital tourism environment
• Have a proven experience in a similar position at a tour operator or a hotel chain
• Have an excellent knowledge about the travel market and tourism industry
• Show good negotiation skills and strong organizational skills
• Have an affinity with numbers
• Demonstrate good presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and to take decision and responsibility
• Accept the duty travel policy
• Be familiar with standard office applications
• Show excellent communication & negotiation skills in English and a second language amongst French, German or Spanish.

• Be pro-active, engage to proposes and take responsibilities
• Show a good sense of negotiation
• Be capable to work independently and in team in an international environment
• Be open-minded and solution oriented
• Be strict, accurate and stress-resistant
• Show the capacity to work under pressure, to meet deadlines and deal with unforeseen and urgent issues
• Ability to handle personally pre-defined deadlines in periods of heavy workload and time pressures
• Be willing to develop other languages such as Luxemburgish or other commonly spoken
• Have the capacity and ability to organize and plan.

Desired or to be acquired criteria:

• Perfectly master the programs and different procedures related to the Contracting & Product
• Management department