Simon Taylor Email & Phone Number

Bristol, Gb

United Kingdom

Paxport is a global Merchandising Distribution System (MDS) provider, that offers the combination of extensive merchandising experience with comprehensive content aggregation and distribution technology, delivering a complete end-to-end travel experience. Paxport enables airlines and travel resellers to grow their ancillary revenues by providing a better travel experience for their passengers by enabling them to capitalise on the increasing demand for travel enhancing services and the growing ecommerce. By using best practice merchandising techniques through the entire passenger journey, we are able to increase ancillary services conversion rates and revenues significantly. As an IATA Strategic Partner, Paxport is proud to be driving the adoption of the new NDC standard and helping airline clients and travel agencies to take advantage of the emerging new market for travel retail.

Managing the commercial and strategic relationships between Amadeus and large national and multi-national accounts in the corporate travel portfolio, with overall responsibility for the acquisition, retention and development of each customers business relationship with Amadeus.

Focussing on the corporate travel segment along with core product areas such as hospitality, rail and third party integrations, the remit of this role includes;- The deployment and adoption of key Amadeus solutions including packaging and pricing elements.- Go-to-market planning and execution of solutions, content and campaigns including the launch of new products, content or adoption initiatives.- Development of the core value proposition for solutions and business segments, creating the tools for optimal conditions for sales and customer / traveller adoption.- Deep understanding of UK & IE markets along with trends and competitive intelligence. - Definition of local vision and strategy.- Definition of the product roadmap and investment. - Identification and evaluation of new opportunities.- Reporting of product and market performance.

Product & Solution Management, MarketingResponsible for the product and solution strategy, evolution and management of a wide range of IT solutions for some of Amadeus' flagship and market leading products, covering the corporate travel segment, hotels, car rental and payments industries in a variety of channel, including: - Corporate and Business Travel: corporate self booking tools, corporate/social responsibility, traveller tracking, expense management and data management tools. - Hotel Distribution: Full range of products (front office, online etc) and hotel content along with data management tools, payment solutions and online web service distribution. - Payments: Virtual credit card (VCC) solutions. - Ground Services: car rental, taxi and transfers.Amadeus provides the technology which keeps the travel sector moving with products and solutions to help improve the business performance of customers; travel agencies, corporations, airlines, ground handlers, airports, hotels, railways, car rental companies, cruise lines and ferry operators. Amadeus invested €414.1 million in R&D in 2012, a total equal to 14.2% of our total revenues and were ranked number one for R&D investment in the travel and tourism sector by the EC (European Commission) in their 2013 'EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard'. Amadeus are listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange and operates in 195 countries with a worldwide team of more than 13,000 people. For the year ended December 31, 2012 the company reported revenues of €2,910.4 million and EBITDA of €1,107.7 million.