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 Sales Manager to develop our B2B brand RateHawk in France and make the travel world better together!
This is a remote position for people located in Paris and East of France.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop and implement sales activities and hit the sales targets to achieve growth and expand presence in assigned territory;
- Sign-up new partners (tour operators, travel agencies, travel management companies, OTAs) and provide them with extended training of our system;
- Build a strong, long-lasting relationship with new partners;
- Prepare, execute, and manage the commercial deals with the partners, including the execution of required document flow and technical setup;
- Manage accounts until the first purchase is made;
- Compliance control with commercial conditions by partners, including the payment flow;
- Participate in specialized events, such as exhibitions;
- Provide market & competitive environment analysis;
- Provide regular comprehensive reporting through CRM and internal systems;
- Initiate API deals with potential and existing partners.
- Relevant Experience. Minimum of 2 years of successful experience in sales management or business development of B2B companies within the travel industry or other technical industry;
- Market Knowledge. In-depth understanding of the region's travel market, including B2B travel networks (tour operators, travel agencies, travel management companies, OTAs (corporate clients for RT) is preferable;
- Readiness for business trips. 40 – 50% of working time might be required for market visits.
- Having a car is mandatory for the market visits.
- Language knowledge. Fluent in French. Advanced English. Other languages as a plus;
- Location. Paris or East of France (no more then 3 hours by car of Paris);
- Personal skills. Proactive, ambitious, motivated, action-oriented, results-focused, appetite for innovative technology, comfortable with fast-changing business environment, teamplayer;
- Analytical skills. Used to data-driven decision-making, metrics-driven and good with numbers;
- 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.
- 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.
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