Job description

Dynamic Inventory Support Administrator

In over five decades of business MIKI Travel have grown to become one of the most influential Travel Wholesaler’s in the global market. With over 40 offices worldwide, we are proud to offer a vast portfolio of travel products covering 173 countries worldwide.

As a Business to Business travel provider, our product diversity ranges from vast numbers of individual tours to large group series as well as ad-hoc group tours, covering hotels, restaurants and coaches. We provide the highest quality of travel services aiming to innovate and inspire.

Miki Travel are looking for people with a genuine interest in pursuing a career within the travel industry. Our office in the City of London offers a multicultural environment and employs people with a diverse range of experience and skills.

About the Department

The Connectivity team are responsible for ensuring the system connections between Miki Travel and our Hotel partners are working to an optimal level, passing competitive rates on to our client network, mitigating any challenges experienced with the connections and presenting new ideas for future developments.

Job Purpose

We are currently seeking to recruit a Dynamic Inventory Support Administrator to join our eBusiness Connectivity Department.

The role is designed to oversee and ensure successful integration and ongoing management of new and current hotel supplier dynamic connections under the leadership of our Connectivity Supervisor, supporting Account Managers in the development of their accounts.

Main Responsibilities

Working closely with suppliers including Hotel Chains, direct Hotels, Channel Managers, Third Parties, Hotel Intermediaries (switch companies) and Miki Travel Internal customers your role will include:

• Act as primary support contact from supplier contract creation to final accreditation.
• Update business with ongoing integration progression, impediments, expected completion timelines.
• Ensure all internal and external e-mails are acknowledged, investigated, prioritized, escalated if necessary and resolved.
• Escalate issues to Supervisor, relevant BA and Account Manager when appropriate.
• Check and validate end to end delivery of supported dynamic contracts.
• Loading of hotel rate and room plans/collation of data for inventory/content loading.
• Providing training to others on the systems that are used within connectivity team.
• Liaise with suppliers to thoroughly investigate and resolve issues.
• Keep the business informed of any connectivity issues which may impact trading.
• Communicate all product launches and updates to relevant business partners, both internal and external to ensure product distribution opportunities are maximized.
• Maintain Partner files detailing all key contacts and documentation for access by relevant departments.
• Manage and support mapping relationships between product and connectivity suppliers.
• Attend Conference calls to understand detailed issues which are hard to articulate through e-mail.
• Monitor existing supplier feeds and ensure all supported contracts are being displayed and priced correctly on partner sites.

Job Ref
EBIZ 0101

Department
e-Business Purchasing

Location
London

Type of Employment
PERMANENT