Hotel Contracting Senior Talent (Pipelining)

About Dida:As the No.1 B2B outbound player in China and a leader across APAC markets, Dida has grown to become a global travel leader and the world’s fastest-growing B2B travel distributor. Our expert teams provide our partners with unparalleled access to retail travel agencies, tour operators, airlines, closed user groups and other high-value channels in some of the fastest growing, most relevant yet hard-to-reach source markets on earth.Responsibilities:Build and progressively expand a portfolio of hotel partners prioritize from company needs and facilitating hotel on-boarding.Develop and sustain strong partner relationships with hotel partners. Providing relevant data and high quality consulting services to hotel partners (high efficiency package, marketing opportunities)Execute effectively based on KPI metrics (targets, goals and/or strategic objectives) set by the company.Ensure that partner hotels’ product (content, rates and availability) is consistently optimized and competitive.Represent DidaTravel in the local market, build DidaTravel’s company profile with key local influencers and provide expertise to the local industry.Manage listing processes for new hotels and renewals with existing hotel partners.Identify, qualify, contact, consult and visit the important hotels and accommodation suppliers to grow the portfolio in assigned territory.Educate DidaTravel’s colleagues on market dynamics and specific needs/requests from your portfolio.Secure additional rates and availability information over high demand and compression periods to satisfy customers’ pressing needs.Secure seasonal deals and dynamic promotions within the guidelines set by Management to support the brands’ merchandising and marketing efforts.Experience:Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.Minimum 8 years of hotel contracting experience.Solid hotel revenue / e-commerce / distribution background with proven record of handling major OTAs and online wholesalers will also be considered.