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Alacant Area, Spain

Develop and implement growth strategy for the Benidorm office regarding structure, business strategy,purchasing, achievement of targets, new supplier acquisition and existing supplier opportunity pipelines, and positioning for future growth.Maintain and develop key supplier & connectivity partner relationships.Team Leadership - managing, coaching and.

Spain & UK

Large scale purchasing responsability (€): Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Identify & develop opportunities, Chain & Independant hotel contracting, Team leaderships, Targets & Appraisals. Motivate and lead remote teamProject Mangement; Integration channel managers - XML pull/push, contracting systems - Develop Extranet Systems, Organize offsites

UK / Spain

• Manage, Mentor and Coach a team of purchasing managers & executives remotely across Europe
• Devise & Deliver purchasing strategy for European Cities
• Responsible for profitability and competitiveness of Urban product
• Intra departmental coordination to ensure correct distribution and communication around European City product.
• Account Manager key Accounts (National Hotel Chains)
• Stakeholder in Internal technological projects to ensure interests of purchasing department are met

Establish Hotels4u, Medhotels as one of the major players in the accommodation only market and, in the process, ensure the wider Thomas Cook Group has able access to the best rates and broadest product available. Set and maintain procedures which will maximise efficiency, eliminate errors and deliver a programme which meets/exceeds business capacity and.

Responsible for management and marketing of the lastminute.com hotel product in primary destinations in Spain, and to maximize gross profit in assigned markets. Oversee a team in a dedicated market that focuses on managing hotel relationship, contracting, inventory, rate (cost) pricing and merchandising decisions for Hotel product on lastminute.com (EMEA).

Commercial direction, coordination and development of the six hotels in the chain. Working in a multi branch business, under tight deadlines in a target driven environment. Advising the general director on all aspects of the departments work. Responsible for providing greater consistency between the hotels in Alicante, Murcia, Seville and Fuerteventura by.

Maintain the occupancy and the revenue of the hotel using different yield management and sales techniques. Supervise quality control, the hotel was given the ‘Q for quality certificate’ when I was there. Attend travel fairs both national and International. Develop and maintain the Hotels own Web Page. For the first time in 5 years we managed an annual.

Alicante Airport