British Airways Holidays Destination Executive (12 Month FTC) Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England
Job description
About British Airways Holidays
At British Airways Holidays our customers and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. We’re one of the UK’s leading and most trusted tour operators, providing holiday packages, hotels, car hire and experiences via ba.com and the British Airways contact centres. From carefully selected hotels to our 24-hour support helpline, we take every element of our customers’ holidays seriously.
As a subsidiary of BA, we offer the advantages of being a significant part of the UK’s largest airline coupled with all the benefits of being in a smaller company. Our country’s creativity, diversity, style, wit and warmth are the same special qualities that make British Airways Holidays who we are. As our business grows, this is a really exciting time to join our team.
About the role
We are recruiting for a Destination Executive on a 12 month fixed term basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy team and to contribute to the selection, sourcing, negotiation, development and commercial management of the British Airways Holidays product portfolio.
Key accountabilities include:
- Developing the product supply strategy and sourcing approach for designated destinations
- Buying the product to deliver the strategy, ensuring optimal commercial terms
- Ensuring all product meets British Airways Holidays brand standards including quality and health and safety
- Managing supplier relationships to optimise commercial opportunities
- Managing commercial performance of designated destinations including analysing data, reviewing and responding to competitor analysis and monitoring inventory reports
- Identifying opportunities for, and supporting with, the implementation of PR, promotional, and other marketing activity.
This role involves travel overseas and representing British Airways Holidays at supplier/trade functions.
Our essential skills and experience for this role are:
- Proven experience in the travel industry in a buying or commercial role
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to analyse data
- Happy to work from the British Airways Holidays offices as outlined below
To help you decide whether you would like to apply for this role, as a guide, a typical salary in this role is around £28,000 - £30,000 per annum (this may vary depending on your relevant skills and experience), plus benefits.
Our offices are based just outside Gatwick Airport and we offer hybrid working (within the UK) on a non-contractual basis. This role works from our offices twice a week, with additional days as needed depending on meetings etc. Office days are co-ordinated so that colleagues in the same team are in the office together to collaborate in person. We usually support new colleagues in the office full time for the first few weeks with us. We offer flexible start and finish times.
Key Benefits
- 25 days holiday per calendar year, plus bank holidays
- Staff travel – from the date you join
- Flexible benefits package including market leading defined contribution pension scheme and generous life assurance cover, plus options such as dental /medical cover, and cycle to work, technology and electric car schemes.
- Hybrid working and flexible start & finish times
- Range of colleague wellbeing and recognition programmes
Closing date for applications is: 07 April 2023. We may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
Please note - we have agreements in place with our recruitment agency partners and respectfully request no applications via new agencies at this time.
At BA Holidays we value diversity and encourage a positive and inclusive environment for everyone. Applications from all backgrounds are welcome.
Please see our LinkedIn page British Airways Holidays | LinkedIn to find out a bit about our recent activity.
