Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Products
4 weeks ago
Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Products required for an Award Winning and fast-growing, travel brand. An excellent and rare opportunity for an experienced Travel & Tourism / Tour Operating Product and Contracting Manager with a sound knowledge of sourcing, contracting and negotiating ground transport suppliers such as rail operators, coach operators, bus and taxi companies. This excellent opportunity offers homebased working in the UK with business travel to Central & Eastern Europe to meet your suppliers. Basic of Circa £40k, Annual Company Bonus, plus other great benefits including working normal operational hours of Monday – Friday.
The company has rapidly grown into a resilient business operating internationally across multiple sectors offering leading organisations from a diverse range of industries first-class services to their passengers and staff.
This leading travel service and support brand are a fun and approachable group with a culture focused on autonomy and transparency, meaning that they work hard to make sure that you have what you need to get the job done and provide opportunities for you to grow in your career with them.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to become part of their experienced Supply & Procurement commercial team and be responsible for identifying, vetting, and onboarding new transport suppliers worldwide, ensuring that the company continues to offer high-quality and reliable services across all operational regions.
A brief insight in to what you’ll be doing as a Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Products:-
- Lead the identification of potential suppliers (ground transport) in new and existing markets
- Perform market research to understand supply chain dynamics in target regions, identifying opportunities and challenges in expanding the company’s service network.
- Negotiate contracts with new suppliers, ensuring favourable terms for the business while adhering to company standards
- Ensure that there is a robust network of transport suppliers in terms of coverage, scale and quality to meet the requirements of the business by carrying out regular appraisals of the network and undertaking supplier recruitment as required.
- Manage and maintain the supplier database and systems to ensure that data and information relating to supplier current and accurate.
- Ensure that the supplier is equipped with the relevant knowledge and instructions relating to our expectations of service and conduct so that they can adhere to client requirements and undertake bookings in line with the required service levels.
- Support the Global Head of Supply and wider management team with the competitive tendering processes for new and existing client accounts.
- Ensure customer complaints and invoice queries are addressed with the relevant supplier in a timely and professional manner.
- Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with suppliers. Work proactively to resolve any issues, and regularly evaluate supplier performance.
- To drive and implement all integration opportunities to create efficiencies internally and externally.
- Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) related to supply expansion, including supplier performance, cost savings, and operational efficiency.
- To meet and exceed the SLA and KPI department requirements
- Additional languages would be an advantage specifically German, French, Greek, Spanish or Italian.
Some benefits you’ll get as a Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Products
- Homebased working to support a positive work-life balance with business trips to Central & Eastern Europe
- Working Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
- Circa £40k basic dependant on skills and experience
- Share in their success – annual company performance bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays. In addition, you are also permitted to take your birthday off, on them (an extra day of annual leave on top of your allowance)
- Length of service awards with increased holiday allowance when you reach key milestones of 5, 8 and 10 years
- Plus other great benefits.
What do I need to apply for the Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Product
- The ideal candidate with have proven ground supplier contracting experience gained from working as a Product Manager or Contractor within the travel & tourism industry having worked for a Tour Operator, Business / Corporate Travel Management Company or other travel business.
- Proven experience in global supply chain management ideally with rail operators, coach operators, bus and taxi companies.
- Strong understanding of international market dynamics and the ability to work across diverse regions and cultures.
- Exceptional negotiation skills with the ability to secure favourable supplier agreements.
- Strong relationship management skills, with a proven track record of building and maintaining supplier partnerships.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Additional languages are preferred specifically German, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian.
For more information about this excellent career opportunity as a Global Supply Expansion Manager / Contracting & Product Manager - Ground Transport Products for this Award-Winning Travel Company we are recruiting for please apply ASAP.
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