Senior Aviation Executive

**Senior Aviation Executive**

Permanent, full-time, hybrid-working

**The opportunity**

Newmarket Holidays has been part of the travel industry for 40 years now. From Italy’s wine-producing north to the island of Madagascar, we operate tours to some of the world’s most fascinating travel destinations. We are constantly designing new tours,delighted by sharing the world with our customers travelling with us on an escorted tour.

We would love for you to join us on this journey. We're seeking a **Senior Aviation Executive**to join our Product team. Reporting to the Head of Transport & Aviation, this role is primarily responsible for the management and processing of group seat blocks for company product ranges, ensuring that airline seats are purchased in a timely cost-efficientmanner and ticketing is managed within airline and company guidelines. Day to day management of the short haul aviation programme including the ownership of internal systems and setting parameters for effective purchasing and work in conjunction with the Headof Transport & Aviation to drive the strategic direction of aviation.

**What you'll be doing**
- Plan, source and negotiate capacity with airlines for new and on-going product
- Control on sale capacities between the airline and the Company’s in-house systems
- Manage airline deadlines and releases as required
- Resolve operational issues that arise - schedule changes, name changes, upgrade requests etc
- Issue scheduled airline tickets both group and IT
- Co-ordinate the purchase of low-cost short haul capacity managing in house system, or manually purchase via airline websites or airline portals as appropriate
- Maintain in house systems to reflect actual flight routes and schedules to meet operational requirements and communicate internally as required
- Take ownership of the Eurostar relationship and the purchase of capacity as required
- Management of all seat-related technology providers around development, implementation, and operational functions.
- Respond to sales queries and remove aviation sales blockers from SCS in a timely manner aiding conversion
- Aviation analysis within short haul of all carriers to improve purchase flows and financial performance
- Work across Aviation function as required
- React to any aviation issues that arise ensuring business needs are always met
- Involvement with driving business change and improvement
- Attendance at industry events to represent the business as required

**Who we're looking for**:

- Highly motivated individual with previous aviation group purchasing experience
- Thorough understanding of group/technology agreements with airlines
- Understanding/working knowledge of air operating procedures involved with group tours
- Amadeus-trained within basic/advanced operating, fares, and ticketing with particular emphasis on tour operator/group fares and operations
- Team player who can build strong relationships internally and externally
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel
- Able to work under own initiative and within tight deadlines
- Flexible with a commitment to quality
- Problem-solver who questions processes in the desire to achieve efficiencies
- Effective and clear communicator both verbally and in writing ensuring areas of opportunity or concern are raised as appropriate
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent airline contacts
- Strong analytical, numerical skills and commercial awareness
- Highly organised with the ability to assimilate a variety of tasks, the flexibility to meet changing priorities as demands dictate and an ability to work well under pressure without sacrificing attention to detail

**What we're offering**

We’re an award-winning holiday company with a team that loves travel. We share our travelling experiences with our colleagues and encourage everyone to go on our holidays. The team is a great mix of people. Some have been there pretty much from the start.Others have joined only recently. It’s that mix that makes our team so successful - we love new ideas and change at the same time as we value experience. We want our team members to try new things and to excel, so there are opportunities to try different teamsand tasks. And we have a keen interest in keeping communication open and honest. We challenge each other, and that makes us better at what we do.

We will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to be part of the exciting return to travel within a hugely passionate, dedicated team with a proven track record of success. We will invest in you, help you develop and provide you with the opportunitiesto achieve career goals, coach and nurture whilst providing all the tools possible to have a positive impact at Newmarket Holidays. The post comes with a competitive salary and benefits package including:

- 33 days paid holiday per year
- Cycle2Work scheme
- Friends and family discount on holidays
- Open-plan South London/Surrey office with a friendly team and regular socials
- Flexible working arrangements with a hybrid model of office and working from home

Sound like the kind of opportunity and place to work that you’re looking for? Please send your CV with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and notice period to our Head of People and Culture, Nikki Bail.
- No agencies, please._