Amazing opportunity for an Account Executive to join a Tourism & Marketing Agency in London our portfolio of services includes sales & reservations, marketing, and PR. This role will be to provide project management and reporting services for a Tourism Board. Fluency in mandarin is essential for this role.
The Job:
- To represent the client in a professional and knowledgeable way to travel trade partners and commercial entities.
- To increase awareness of the destination to both the travel trade and public sectors
- To maintain existing and secure new trade relations with travel agents, tour operators and all other trade entities
- To present the destination product information to the trade and train front line staff
- Taking calls from both the general public and trade partners
- Providing excellent customer service both on the telephone and face-to-face
- Liaising with the client's local management and head office on a regular basis
- Weekly and Monthly reports to submitted to the client.
- To maintain a successful working relationship and cooperation with the client team, management, and headquarters.
- Handling of tourism marketing and promotional matters
- Handling the planning and implementation of marketing and promotional activities
- Participate in travel exhibitions and marketing campaigns in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
- Manage social media platforms of the client with regular posts and general maintenance.
- Manage and implement digital marketing projects and activities.
- Monitoring competitor activity in the market and provide feed-back vie required reporting lines.
- Interpreting revenue statistics, data and providing statistical reports.
- Identifying new sources of interest from UK, Ireland and Scandinavian travel trade and corporate market
- Reporting and reacting to market conditions.
- Provide reports/feedback on the Destination's competitive position in the marketplace.
- Preparing regular sales activity reports
- Build and maintain required contact channels with key third party entities such as Airlines, media outlets and general suppliers for the benefit of the client.
- Manage the client's project and other administrative assignments.
- You may be required to travel both domestically and internationally - willingness to travel is essential.
Skills required:
- Fluency in Mandarin & English
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a similar role
- Excellent knowledge of MS Software, Canvas & Mailchimp
- Skilled in the use of social media
- Experience in social media platform operation & management.
- Digital Marketing - essential
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Excellent communication skills, creativity, flexibility, and tolerance
- Strong presentation skills
- Must be customer focused, well presented and well spoken.
- Excellent telephone manner
- Must be professional whilst under pressure.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work as part of a team.
The Package:
- Salary up to £30,000
- This is a 12-month contract with the possibility of being increased to 24 months.
- London based.
Interested:
- If you are interested in the above vacancy, please click APPLY or email your cv to