Emerging Travel Group

Research, identify new business opportunities globally, acquire new partners
with focus on their API distribution

Maintain relationships with the existing strategic API partners

Assess partners needs in terms of technical requirements, service level requirements and
product features, prioritizing them and aligning with product development pipelines

Optimisation of the strategic partners performance focusing on their growth, assess their
potential and identify growth opportunities

Examine the feed management (both direct and indirect rates), optimisation of API
distribution channel set up along with the search & book funnel to suit the needs and
business logic of specific API partners

Working closely with the product Team in terms of API product optimization and
developing API product strategy based on the industry best practices and partners
needs

Implementation of the new product features and approaches focusing on improving key
distribution metrics and growing partner’s performance.

Senior Business Development Manager

Hotelbeds

Maintain a budget for key accounts of over 100 Million and a growth of 20%
Research and acquire new business prospects and partners to grow overall
budget of current territory
Responsible for front-end strategic assessment of new business
opportunities, proposals, contract negotiations, and acquisitions
Examine direct and indirect rates, channels, cost elements,performance
requirements, budgets, and timely delivery schedules.
Assess contract risks, analyze clauses within scope of the company's terms
and conditions and provides mitigation strategies to program leadership
Build existing pipelines to exceed and meet current budget expectations
Project goals, estimate turnovers and analyse client's potentials to increase

Strategic Account Manager

Tourico Holidays

Oversaw technical training of over 750 students for the Academy
Planned, created and executed curriculum for the given cycles
Conducted training in software applications and tools that enhance
success in the travel industry
Developed adhoc applications and high demand tools to fast-track
harnessing of data to identify trends
Coached students to use their technical insights to develop business tools
Implemented complex tax structure based on the Canadian tax agency's
infrastructure for specific clients in the Canadian market

Project Specialist

Oversaw a budget of 250 Million that included a portfolio of up to 450
concurrent client projects.
Grew regional targets over 50% of projected expectations
Oversaw software development and technical integration of pipeline
clients
Main point of contact for XML development from day 0 to completion,
monitoring when live, mapping of inventory, reporting on all levels and
optimization for growth
Planned and modified product configurations for Hotel, Car, Cruises,
Attractions to meet customer needs.
Collaborated with commercial teams to understand customer
requirements, and enhance sale of company products, as well as provision
of application support.
Developed new XML APIs based on recommendations from clients to
enhance user experience.
Oversaw implementation of new integrations with clients, facilitate testing,
certification and increased Sales of various Product lines
Wrote technical documentation for various Product lines to ease
development and integration of numerous clients
Oversaw builds of data mining projects
Directed recruitment and hiring of well-qualified candidates to fill key
positions.
Managed teams that were based locally in the region

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