Contracts Manager with French

We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Contract Manager with French to join our team inthe UK. In this role, you will be responsible for working directly with our key supplier partnersin the defined region, to negotiate and ensure that TPG obtains the most competitive marketrates and to seek new contracts to extend our portfolio within the destinations. You will workas part of a collaborative, international team, creating memories that last a lifetime for our clientsand their customers

Tour Partner Group is a leading DMC for the UK, Ireland, the Nordics and Baltics. We bring together more than 300 destination specialists, designing B2B travel for Groups and FIT. Along with our MICE division, HORIZONS by Tour Partner Group, we are the experts in creating authentic experiences and memories that last a lifetime.

We have offices in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Copenhagen, and Phoenix. Our mission is to deliver personally tailored, authentic tours. Perfectly.

Your responsibilities What will I be doing?

• Sourcing European hotel space within the company's portfolio for booked groups, Seriesand for offers
• Acquiring a competitive price for our client, within a short turnaround time
• Negotiating hotel rates and terms & conditions
• Helping achieve an expected margin for the company
• Developing relationships with hotels: exchanging feedback, providing updates, identifyingways of presenting group booking requests to each individual supplier to optimize outcome;dealing with supplier book-outs, supporting supplier complaint resolution
• Liaising with internal clients, i.e. Commercial, Operations and Sales
• Storing and presenting product knowledge
• Constant dialogue with the Purchasing Team for Europe, as well as Sales, and the AccountManagement teams to ensure that client/hotel timeline requirements are met
• Helping the Head of Contracts with the delivery of the overall Contracts strategy
• Assisting the Head of Contracts with the implementation and roll out of internaldepartmental procedures
• Ensuring all contracts are loaded correctly into Tourplan for company wide use
• Running various reports, comparing charts, updating the system if necessary to keep anoverview of your allocated areas
• Assisting in the placing of group series business within the budgets and standardsexpected by the client
• Represent TPG at specific applicable industry events
• Visiting key hotels on a regular basis as needed and other hotels where necessary, toensure quality is maintained and producing hotel meeting reports for the company
• Dealing with book-out situations and supplier issues
• Supporting the Head of Contracts in contracting allocations and series allocations whenneeded
• Supporting contracting other locations as needed
• To flexibly support team members of the same region (and other regions where businessrequirements demand) to fulfil their role as and when needed, for business reasons such asproductivity, expertise absence, illness etc

Your profile What skills do I need?

• Fluent French Speaker
• Full driving license
• Good time management and self-management skills
• Good organizational skills and, particularly, a keen eye for detai
• Strong IT command for Excel and preferably TourPlan
• Ability to develop strong teamwork and collaboration
• Outstanding interpersonal and networking skills
  

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