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Glyfada, Gr

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Main role is selecting and purchasing quality products for Hoppa, while main responsibilities include signing up new product, negotiating with suppliers, creating and maintaining an inventory, quality assurance and liaising with inventory teams and the Head of Purchasing. The Purchasing Manager work with staff across departments to forecast the needs of the business and make purchase decisions based on demand.• Ensure research, select and purchase quality products• Build relationships with suppliers and negotiate with them for the best pricing• Learn and understand each destination’s needs• Ensure all allocated destinations have a result for any route• Monthly calls with all suppliers to ensure quality of service• Analyse market trends and apply this knowledge to make insightful buying decisions• Coordinate with inventory team, management

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Main role is for managing all commercial processes, namely identifying commercial opportunities, executing sales and marketing activities and driving profitable client relationships within a given segment in Greece and Cyprus• Ensure that clients within the assigned segment are engaged, supported and serviced according to their requirements and Meeting Point standards• Ensure delivery of purchasing requirements as per the guidelines to the Product Team and ensure receipt is accurate according to clients’ brief• Continuously monitoring clients’ performance and take proactive measures to mitigate risk and exploit opportunities• Develop budget proposal based on clients’ historical performance and expected market developments (new clients, new products, competition)• Perform and review benchmarking to validate and ensure competitiveness in order to maximize revenue • Support clients’ promotional activities and identifying business development opportunities

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Main responsibility is managing and negotiating contracts with Tour Operators in order to maximize the revenue and occupancy level of the hotels managed by Zeus International in Greece• Prepare, review and edit new or existing contracts with Tour Operators• Build and maintain excellent relationships with Tour Operators to ensure their needs are met• Ensure the Organization’s contract documents are accurate and well maintained • Act as the key point of contact for the Tour Operators for issues related to contracting, commercial or financial activities• Yield analysis and proposal of activities such as special offers and deals in order to increase revenue and occupancies

Athens, Greece

Main role is to provide the best solutions for wholesale Clients under my portfolio (mainly Bedbanks and Flash Sales Agents) by familiarizing their set up and business model and being in contact with internal and external stakeholders for the purpose of maximizing sales • Recognize Clients potential and limitations in order to adapt the product to their needs• Analyze Clients source markets in order to recognize trends that will fulfill their targets• Provide the right Product/Hotels portfolio by being in close coordination with the Contractors per area • Review of price competition and implement tactical policies in order to maintain competitiveness and availability of Product• Continuous communication with Hotels in order to achieve Strategic Partnerships via exclusive promotions • Liaise with various departments within Meeting Point Hellas in order to monitor the business flow and ensure margins and targets are achieved

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Main role was to increase Sales in all Online Platforms by managing the rates and availability through successful yielding, and to plan and establish new collaborations which will increase the yearly turnover and exposure of both companies in the B2B and B2C channels• Manage rates and availability of OTA’s and Own Websites• Review of online yielding strategy in coordination with the Sales Department• Propose and participation in online marketing activities in coordination with the Marketing Department • Evaluation of new revenue streams and digital strategies for both Vita Hotels and Deltanet Travel• Support Vita Hotels Managers & Reservations Managers acting as the “hub” among OTA’s and other web-oriented issues• Active participation in the project of the creation of a new Website for Vita Hotels

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Main role was to enhance Nelios.com sales and business development efforts, by identifying potential customers’ opportunities from the Hotel & Tourism Sector. Create smart digital product solutions & build strategies to ensure a positive return on clients’ investments • Generation of sales leads & business development by identifying new potential clients • Handling of inbound sales enquiries for Nelios.com products & services for the Hotel & Tourism sector• Preparation & negotiation of financial proposals based on each potential customer’s profile • Participate in several trade fairs and events in order to promote Nelios.com brand • Account Management by developing successful Clients-Nelios.com relationships • Project Management monitoring, in order to set key milestones, deliverables, required resources and deadlines with internal and external stakeholders • Increase revenue from Accounts under my management by generating extra needs and up-selling opportunities• Collaborating with internal teams to bring new, innovative opportunities to clients

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Establish company’s product coverage in the assigned countries/areas, in order to achieve the targeted budget• Planning hotels portfolio per country/area (Croatia, Bulgaria, Italy)• Product, market and competition analysis per country/area• Preparation of contracts in areas where there were not covered by contractors • Calculation of prices to default (yield, mark ups)• Creation of reports and analysis for the Director of Product in order to review targets and set up strategies• Coordination of work with internal departments and external partners• Implementation of marketing and sales strategies in collaboration with the Sales Team• Acquiring full knowledge of the assigned destination(s) including hotels, flights, competition etc • Follow up the special offers for the assigned destination(s) and to chase for special offers, extra allotment, release reduction, monitor stop sales etc.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

The main purpose was to ensure that the right product distribution mix was achieved in order to maximize bookings and revenue for the Hotel Chain• Preparing, checking and signing new contracts with Tour Operators• Daily communication with Aquis Hotels and local agents • Yield analysis and proposal of activities in order to increase revenue and occupancies• Producing sales reports by gathering data from other departments of the company• Updating and communicating with OTAs such us Booking.com & Expedia• Exploring the possibilities of further business development • Implementation and effective communication of Special Offers and Stop Sales• Field visits whenever required, to areas where Aquis Hotels are located, in order to establish and maintain relationships with local agents

Person in charge for all Online Operations of the Company, who achieved through various actions an increase of 192% of online direct bookings, and an increase of 222% on indirect online bookings, by driving traffic from the website to the call-centre • In charge of Yourholidays.com Web Operations, overlooking the project • Margin and booking aspects of the website • Analysing website stats and overlook Web sales• Update suppliers, Margins and XML links• Overlook Google Pay Per Click Campaigns. • Overlook Administration progress of all the web bookings• Propose new web-projects for the Website• Development of Yourholidays.com / Overlook new developments/Debugging and testing new applications of the Website

Appointed to create, set up and run the newly created Health & Safety Department• Setting up an updated H&S policy in conjunction with an exterior company specialized in this field• Ensuring adherence of H&S policy and procedures by all related parties(both internally and externally)• Monitoring a Database-Gathering of H&S audits for all properties presented in the website of Youtravel.com• Liaising with Handling Agents and Hoteliers regarding H&S issues• Quality Control in terms of Website Usability, Product Presence and Appearance in the Website, Customer Reviews etc.• Planning hotel visits-inspections with external auditors • Performing hotel visits-inspections in key properties regarding H&S issues

• Loading new contracts to the Back-Office system, implementation of Special Offers and Stop Sales• Daily maintenance of the Back-Office’s Data Base and monitoring a Development Agenda (improvements-errors) for the Back Office and Website in cooperation with the IT/Web Development Departments• Testing new applications• Assisting in Yield Management in terms of Competition Analysis, Product Pricing, Inventory/Allotment Control, Communicating with Sales and Marketing Departments

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Person in charge for the effective allocation and management of the available Human Resources• Support all the departments on staffing matters• Monitor working conditions and ensure adherence to staffing policies and procedures to maintain a cohesive and efficient working environment • Support all departments to resolve staff shortages / surpluses – facilitate redeployment as required • Preparation & Participation in the job specific training given to all employees of the Department• Person in charge for the Volunteers selection process (evaluation of CVS and interviews) for the Human Resources Department of the Olympic Village

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Providing first-line service and daily communication with a designated portfolio of affiliated resorts and timeshare selling companies • Supporting the Director of the Department in subjects concerning the affiliation process of new resorts, inspection of affiliated resorts, participation in tourism exhibitions, the promotion of the company in the mass media• Reservations of Holiday Exchanges for important Business Associates• Preparing records of business performance of timeshare selling companies• Daily update and maintenance of RCI’s computer data base• Promotional materials coordinator

Piraeus, Attiki, Greece

• Administration Assistant • Reports writing• Keeper of records• Database Management/ Design System for handling-monitoring incoming cases• Supplies coordinator

Msc, E-Tourism

The MSc in e-Tourism deals with the planning, development, and marketing of tourism enterprises in the emerging electronic markets.

Bsc, Management Of Tourism Enterprises

A degree that provides a high level study of tourism and hospitality with a modular format based around specific industry studies.

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