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• Building and managing partnerships with luxury hotels, tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs)

London, United Kingdom

• Building and managing partnerships with luxury hotels, tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs)
• Launched Ten’s Global Hotel Collection - which now comprises over 1,700 luxury worldwide hotels, offering exclusive, value-added benefits
• Produced the company’s first ever 200+ page luxury Global Hotel Collection brochure, with a distribution to 50,000 Ultra High/High Net Worth members
• Managing the creation of a new programme of experiential-focused bespoke itineraries, using the services of local, high-end DMCs
• Annually contracting exclusively negotiated benefits at over 700 worldwide four and five-star hotels, for a leading global financial client
• Working with the Member Benefits team for the procurement of luxury travel products for clients' loyalty programmes

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for ensuring the best possible travel supplier base is in place for Ten’s global country markets including luxury hotels, tour operators and Destination Management Companies (DMCs). Building and managing.
• Creating the content for travel marketing campaigns including general travel mailers, highly targeted ‘micro’ e-mail campaigns and tactical exclusives/benefits to promote the travel service to Ten's high net and ultra.

London, United Kingdom

• Sourcing and contracting all the ground products for the Americas region and the on-going management of the relationships with partnered suppliers
• Marketing the Americas region to the closed user membership database via various distribution channels including direct mail, e-newsletter offers and website activity.
• Developing revenue opportunities & service levels, through working with preferred suppliers, negotiating over-rides and on-going product training to develop expertise within the team.
• Managing, training and mentoring a team of regional specialist travel consultants & monitoring performance levels & targets.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for producing the company's brochures including the product planning, contracting of hotels, tours and ancillary products, copy-writing, pricing and overseeing the brochure design and production
• Worked with partnered suppliers to create tactical special late offers marketing for weekly distribution to the travel trade
• Supported with the setting up of the Jetlife website and the subsequent on-going development of the platformKey Achievement:
• Redesigned and expanded the Jetlife America brochure, introducing new destinations and products

London, United Kingdom

• Developed and enhanced the 132 page America & 64 page Ski Freedom brochures including product planning and development, copy-writing, contracting, pricing and design & production
• Managing the brand's marketing including producing the marketing plans, consumer & trade advertising and promotional opportunities, direct mail and working with the media buying agencyKey Achievement:
• Increased the growth of hotel sales, from over 55,000 room nights to over 163,000 room nights, within a three year period, through the support of new product development and marketing activity