Job Title: Regional Travel Management Company (TMC) Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Dunstable, LU5 5XE, hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office, 2 days from home (occasional working from Holborn, London possible)
Why You'll Love it Here:
* Up to 10% matched pension
* Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
* Annual Incentive of up to 30% OTE, 45% Stretch
We are looking to hire a Travel Management Company Manager (TMC Manager). At Premier Inn we have many channels, business to consumer (B2C), Business to Business (B2B), working with Leisure Tours Companies and also working with Travel Management Companies – all to do with booking hotel rooms for Premier Inn.
The purpose of this role is to be an account manager/relationship manager with the number of TMC’s that you’ll work with. Your remit will be to develop account plans with the TMC businesses assigned ensuring that we are hitting the growth targets we have set. Part of your role will also be to hunt down new business within your current accounts, and source new connections across the TMC landscape. You’ll do this by understanding the current business and the opportunities available to go after. You’ll also be going through and agreeing contract renewals and revisions working with the Head of Indirect Sales and wider team to achieve this. There will be a requirement to hold quarterly and annual reviews to conduct to review business as well as creating monthly reports. There will also be the opportunity to represent Premier Inn hotels at Trade Shows, usually between 3 and 5 per year.
You will look after a number of accounts across the UK and Ireland with multiple £m worth of revenue to Premier Inn.
We are looking for someone who has travel industry experience and has worked in some kind of relationship management, account management or sales experience. You’ll also need to be comfortable with using, interpreting information and data to understand trends, patterns and opportunities and keeping up to date with changes and developments within business travel
We’re Whitbread the UK’s largest hospitality business with over 1,200 hotels and restaurants across the UK but we’re more than that. We’re the 38,000 people who make everyday experiences special that delight over 5 million guests every month.
We are proud to have been recognised as a Top Employer for 14 consecutive years, voted a top apprenticeship employer by Department of Education and Rate my Apprenticeship, this year we placed #10 in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index for our commitment to LGBTQIA+ inclusion at Whitbread and have been awarded as a Top 25 Exemplary Employer in the Investing in Ethnicity Parliamentary Matrix as the only hospitality company leading the way in terms of Inclusion.
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