RateHawk is part of Emerging Travel Group — a pioneering travel-tech company also known for its two other brands, ZenHotels and Roundtrip, spanning over 220 markets worldwide.
Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone.
As an Account Manager, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and developing relationships with our clients and consolidating our presence on the local market.
This is a remote vacancy open to candidates residing in China.
Requirements
- Expand and consolidate presence in the assigned territory;
- Maintain and develop our relationship with signed partners (tour operators, travel agencies, travel management companies, OTAs) in order to increase their performance;
- Collaborate with the sales team to identify and grow opportunities within the territory;
- Follow-up with existing and new partners in order to provide system training;
- Position the brand within the travel trade through ongoing product presentations and networking events;
- Address incident issues, ensuring partners support;
- Payment control: oversee and ensure accuracy in transaction processing;
- Spend approximately 30% of your working time on business trips, including meetings with clients, industry events, and other business-related events;
- Provide market & competitive environment analysis;
- Provide regular comprehensive reporting through CRM and internal systems;
- Maximize and develop API deals with the potential and existing partners.
Key Qualifications
- Relevant Experience. Minimum of 3-5 year of successful experience in account management or business development of B2B companies within the travel industry;
- Market Knowledge. In-depth understanding of the region's travel market, including B2B travel networks (tour operators, travel agencies, travel management companies, OTAs);
- Language knowledge. Fluent in Mandarin and English;
- Travel Requirements. Up to 40% of travel time may be required;
- Analytical skills. Used to data-driven decision-making, metrics-driven and good with numbers
- Personal skills. Proactive, ambitious, motivated, action-oriented, results-focused, appetite for innovative technology, comfortable with fast-changing business environment, team-player
- International mindset. Ability to understand and work across a wide range of cultural contexts reflecting ETG’s global presence
- Competence in API technology deals is a plus.
- Strong commercial aptitude and entrepreneurial spirit.
- This position job scope includes both segments of API as well as Retail.
Benefits
We Offer You
- Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
- Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
- Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
- Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
- Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
- MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.
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Skills Required
- 3–5 years of successful account management or business development experience in B2B travel companies
- In-depth knowledge of the local travel market and B2B travel networks
- Fluency in Mandarin and English
- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making ability
- Proactive, ambitious, motivated, action-oriented, and results-focused
- Comfort working with innovative technology and in a fast-changing environment
- Team-oriented and able to work across diverse cultural contexts
- Competence in API technology deals
- Strong commercial aptitude and entrepreneurial spirit
What We Do
RateHawk.com is an innovative B2B online booking engine featuring hotels, air tickets, transfers, and car hire. It is designed to be the ultimate day to day booking tool for travel professionals. We scan the globe for the best accommodation providers, hand-pick the strongest ones and pass on the best offers in the B2B hotel booking market. The rates and availability are taken from more than 180 global wholesalers, consolidators, OTAs and DMCs all brought together into one booking tool. In addition to these, we have over 67 000 properties contracted directly. This allows us to provide our clients located in over 190 source markets with more than 2 000 000 properties all over the world. Combining innovative technologies and extensive professional experience, RateHawk provides travel industry players with the world’s most relevant, responsive and user-friendly hotel booking backend technology. Customers are on the pedestal of our world — everything is built around their needs. All our decisions and considerations, whether commercial, technological or operational, should be driven by utmost care for our customers and agents. We have teams specialising in supporting and developing our product, providing great customer service and developing our partner networks. We share common values and are hugely results driven. Our shareholder mentality, collaborative culture and worldwide presence constantly create new opportunities for our team of employees to continually learn and grow in their day to day work. Our goal is to ensure that our customers and our partners are always offered the best prices for any type of accommodation and air tickets in any geography.
