Gerald Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Hannover, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & yield of approx. 1.200 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUI, airtours, 1-2-Fly.Responsible for a team existing of 14 members and 2 destination management agencies.Key projects:TNBM (testing new business models) stereotyping the 1st production model via channel manager connectivity at TUI (cooperation TUI/Hotelconsolidator), roll out of DESTIMO (webbased destination management platform for all overland hotel partner,re-launch of TUI Wintersport brochure incl. invention of TUI snow guarantee for guests (winner of 2 product innovation awards)

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & yield of approx. 2.300 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUI, 1-2-Fly.Responsible for a team existing of 25 members and 3 destination management agencies.Key projects:Change Management: Integration of the luxury brand airtours.Sales: Optimization of allottment utilization especially for hotels with risk contracts through development of a third party distribution channel strategy

Germany, Hannover

In 2006 a major restructuring at TUI Germany was realized hence the portfoliomangements were changed into productmanagements.Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales & back office tasks of approx. 2.100 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUIResponsible for a team existing of 48 members and 4 destination management agencies.Key projects:Change Management: Integration of the budget brand 1-2-FlyStrategy: Developed a growth strategy to extend the offered hotel portfolio under the corresponding brandSales: Implemented a commission model for sold brochure advertisements and increased profit by 200.000 € p.a.Project leader for a major Sales Road Show in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing, content, sales of approx. 1.300 hotel products p.a. for the brands: TUIResponsible for a team existing of 23 members and 5 destination management agencies.Key projects:Change Management: Integration of the departments calculation/product set up and service support into our product management department.Sales: Developed cooperation with several regional and provincial marketing organizations in order to agree on marketing action plans.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for product strategy, planning, purchasing, set up, pricing for hotel products in the regions I was responsible for.

Germany, Hanover

Responsible for concept & implementation of the new homepage of TUI Beteiligungssesellschaft Hotels & Resorts and the re-launch of the Hotels & Resorts Brand Book (image brochure for potential investors).Coordination of several marketing activity plans between the hotel brands Grecotel, Grupotel & Dorfhotel and group tour operators of relevant source markets.

Cyprus, Limassol

Responsible for the tour representarives teams for the tour operators: TUI, airconti, 1-2-Fly, Imholz, Vögele Reisen in Cyprus. 23 team members. Key Responsibility: guest relations, excursion and rental car sales, ground handling in the airports Larnaca and Paphos.Change: Optimization of handling and service concepts and processes hence reduction of staff costs by 80.000 p.a.

Greece, Rhodes, Spain, Fuerteventura

Management Trainee Programme to qualify for the position of destination manager at TUI Service.Projects: QuaZi: Implementation of feedback circles to optimize guest relation activities on resort. Invention of the TUI Service Award.

2 Masters' Degrees, Economics & English Studies, Master In Economics (1.0 = A), Master In Englisch Studies (2.0 = B)

Versicherungskaufmann, 1,4 Passend With Distinction Of The Chamber Of Commerce And Industry Hanover

Foreign Language Correspondent For The English Language, Business English, 2,5

German, English, Political Science, Biology

German Abitur , A-Levels, German, English, Political Science, Biology, 2,4

Guest Lecturer, Tourism Management

Since 2011 I offer the course: Job Profile Product Manager each winter semester. Besides basic knowledge in how a tour operator works.