Account Manager Durban at Qatar Airways

Based in Durban, you will be responsible for managing relationships with Qatar Airways’ corporate and trade customers. You will be involved with developing a successful, consistent approach to local and multinational dealing, driving maximum revenue and minimum cost of sale. You will engage in joint sales and marketing activity to grow the level and quality of QR revenue sold through these partners and driving efficiencies in the distribution processes.
This represents a fantastic opportunity in a fast-paced environment in a leading Aviation group to contribute to our continued development and evolution.

Specific Accountabilities Include

• Develop and maintain long term strategic relationships with Qatar Airways’ Trade partners and corporate clients.
• Prepare account development plan to achieve short, medium, and long term mutual benefits for both Trade Partners and Corporate customers.
• Contribute to the formulation and implementation of QR sales strategy to maximise short and long term revenue opportunities, reduce cost of sale and generate channel shift where appropriate.
• Reviews QR sales data with account portfolio to drive revenue and seek out tactical revenue opportunities
• Manage and co-ordinate projects and initiatives on behalf of area of responsibility
• Develop tactical Sales and Marketing activity in support of sales opportunities in both Trade Partners and Corporate market place.
• Maximize value from marketing spend and manage individual expenditure budget.
• Provide regular Market Intelligence and feedback from customers and competitors.
• Represent QR at trade events, promotions and sales functions, including supporting educational and familiarization visits
• Perform other related functions, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
• Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department

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Qualifications
About you - The successful person will have:

• Ideally a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• A minimum of 4 years’ relevant customer facing commercial experience within the travel industry, ideally within Aviation.
• Experience in negotiating contracts.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Airline Sales & Marketing.