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loveholidays

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

Hospitality • Logistics • eCommerce

loveholidays is a fast-growing travel-tech company based in the UK, dedicated to making travel affordable, accessible, and desirable for everyone. They provide a platform that offers an extensive range of holiday options, ensuring that customers have unlimited choice and great value for their vacations. With a culture focused on growth and collaboration, loveholidays aims to open up the world to all travelers while continuously innovating and improving their services.

📋 Description

• Define and implement the sourcing strategy, establishing loveholidays as a leader through a direct-contracting model. • Serve as the lead contact for major hotel chains and DMCs, fostering long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships. • Secure market-leading rates, availability and exclusive value-adds that distinguish our brand in all markets - with a particular focus on UK + DE customers. • Proactively secure inventory and special offers during peak seasons to ensure we remain the first choice for customers throughout the year. • Partner with Inventory, Yield, and Marketing teams to ensure our supply aligns with demand and our top deals receive high visibility on our platform. • Manage the end-to-end contracting process, ensuring all agreements are finalized and loaded efficiently. • Maintain a constant pulse on the industry to ensure our pricing and product offering remain highly competitive.

🎯 Requirements

• You have a strong track record in purchasing within the travel sector and a deep understanding of commercial performance. • You possess an extensive list of established contacts across hotel chains and DMCs. • You are professionally fluent in English, capable of leading complex discussions in both languages. • You have hands-on experience with the Channel Managers commonly used across Spain and Portugal. • You work well in fast-paced environments and are motivated by achieving ambitious growth targets.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company pension contributions at 5%. • Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up. • Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends. • 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum. • Ability to buy and sell annual leave. • Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.