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 dependant on experience
• 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 helen@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk