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.
We are looking for a Global PR Manager. This is a senior role that reports to the PR Team Lead and works in close collaboration with local sales teams as well as staff throughout the organization to identify opportunities for greater media visibility.
Our perfect candidate is a PR professional with experience in the B2B/Tech/Travel fields and has a proven track record in successful global media relations establishment. This diverse role in a fast-paced working environment will require you to be adaptable, learn fast and be proactive. A track record of developing and delivering global communication strategies is desirable.
The post holder should be experienced in delivering positive global media coverage and PR activities which help to build recognition and credibility for the organization.
Job Responsibilities
- Be able to design and deliver global PR strategies and campaigns together with the tactics needed.
- Work with subject matter experts to develop PR and communications plans to support the company’s priority projects.
- Identify and respond to opportunities to showcase the company, positioning it as a leader in travel and tech, including public speaking opportunities and awards’ nomination.
- Cultivate relationships with the media and thought leaders within the sector in key markets. Proactively pitch stories positioning the company as a sector leader.
- Generate news releases, backgrounders, factsheets, editorial and other written materials for a range of channels including print, broadcast, digital media.
- Manage agencies and contractors delivering work for the company.
- Be able to handle the PR response to crisis situations.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in public relations in-house, experience in the B2B, tech or hotel industry.
- Proven track record of delivering successful global projects.
- Experience in working with European/Middle East/US markets.
- Knowledge of business and industry media outlets.
- Analytical skills, ability to work with data.
- Solid knowledge of English (C1-C2).
- Strong writing and editing skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong project management skills.
- Public speaking and presentation skills.
- 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.
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.