About HotelPlanner
HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company that combines proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service network, to quickly and seamlessly serve all traveler hotel & accommodation needs from a single platform. HotelPlanner is one of the world’s top providers of the individual, group, and corporate travel bookings, specializing in unique “Closed User Group” discount rates. Founded in 2004, HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world’s largest Online Travel Agencies, well-known hotel chains, individual hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers, corporations, sports franchises, universities, and government agencies.
Learn more about us at http://hotelplanner.com
In this Role, you’ll get to:
- You will be collaborating with Managers to work on managing the relationships with the hotels in your region to ensure that we are getting the best rates and timely responses from the hotels for our clients.
- Working with each group to ensure users are getting responses from the hotels that are appropriate for their needs and answering their questions to help book their group.
- Maintaining the group requests in our system, maintaining the hotel accounts, educating hotels on the best ways to use our system, and maintaining a general working knowledge of your territory to assist groups with: transportation, locating hotels within a specific area or near points of interest, restaurant, show, tour and excursion recommendations. You should strive to increase area conversion year over year by 20%.
- This role will include participation in the development of business strategy, analysis of market opportunities, and development of business plans. You will collaborate across functional groups, including Sales, Marketing, Core-technology, Legal, and Finance to further our business objectives and drive opportunities for successful completion.
- You will also develop and maintain affiliate partnerships. Affiliate partnerships include but are not limited to: * Construction * Petroleum * Mining * Medical * Finance *Information Technology * Utilities * * Consumer Products * Aerospace and Defense *Government * Entertainment *
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
- Students currently completing a Bachelor/Master degree program with active student status during the internship period
- Good communication and comprehension skills: confident in communicating with people of differing levels of senior
- Organized and structured: can manage multiple, competing priorities and deliver results under tight deadlines and pressure
- Good in English both spoken and written – additional languages are a plus
- Must be the curious, proactive, practical, and solution-oriented attitude
