Jon Elliott Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsible for Consortia Partnerships, Wholesale/FIT Vertical and Global Business Travel Sales Team for 81 Sonesta Hotels. Focused on reinventing and introducing Sonesta to corporate business travel and wholesale/FIT market through strategic conferences, trade shows, agency visits, and face to face client meetings.

Work with key stakeholders on Hotel Programs, Corporate Housing, and Relocation Services with my extensive procurement experience.

*Hotel and Airline Consulting Sales to Fortune 1000*Hotel Program Management operations*Airline Program Management operations*Develop new reporting and modeling for Consulting Practice

• Supported one of the top clients for the first six months of 2005 and achieved 94% of goal for 2006 sales.
• Achieved 144% of goal for 2005 sales.
• Cross selling Airline and Car Rental opportunities for 2005.
• Managed five hotel consultants that serviced 25 Corporate Clients in 2003. Responsibility for end-to-end hotel solution along with ongoing program maintenance, customer service, and website-file technology.
• Project manager on Choice International website for conducting the request for proposal process for 2003. Achieved a 60% hotel response rate with the new site and outstanding customer service scores.
• Continuing my strong relationship skills with hotel chain representatives through the various projects I am working on at this time.

Worked with internal TBiz and external prospects on Airline and Hotel consulting engagments and sales. Supervised the consulting team through project work and potential new sales.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed Hotel, Car Rental, and Car Service programs and assist with Airline, Corporate Card and Agency projects within Global Travel department. Responsible for day-to-day relationships with Preferred Suppliers and.
• Negotiated $80 million Hotel Program for United States/Canada while consulting all Andersen offices. Realized a savings of 15% in 2001.
• Redesigned Andersen Worldwide Hotel Directory to make it more user friendly for 84 Countries and 85,000 Employees.
• Developed and marketed “Best Value Hotel” Program for Andersen to drive market share to low cost suppliers.
• Implemented and developed Airline Upgrade program to better understand who and why upgrades were being issued. Involved in airline negotiations.
• Negotiated $15 million Car Rental program that resulted in $7.6 million savings in 2001 and a rebate of $90,000.

• Responsible for developing ten key accounts to build brand awareness, hotel inclusion in key accounts hotel programs and moving market share to preferred properties.
• Negotiated and managed on behalf of 175 hotels with many major accounts including General Motors, Motorola, Honeywell, etc.
• Developed and maintained marketing and sales plans for all accounts.
• Member of National Sales Team of the year and nominated for Director of Business Travel National Sales of the year for Wyndham International.
• Identified as national business travel sales person for Talent Plus benchmark survey for Wyndham International.