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Account Manager New Business
Fulltime, Amsterdam, M/F
Would you like to work at the fastest growing travel site in the Netherlands? And make us as successful in Belgium/Belgique as we are in the Netherlands? We can offer you extensive room for growth and excellent career opportunities.
Who we are
Young, dynamic, enthusiastic, flexible, smart, ambitious, “work hard, play hard”, are all words that characterise a 'birdie'. Not everyone can be a 'birdie' and not everyone wants to be a 'birdie'. We are just looking for talented superstars to strengthen our team!
How it all started
TravelBird was founded in Amsterdam in April 2010. It all began in an attic and with founders Dennis Klompalberts and Symen Jansma, who offered just one fantastic new travel deal each day. For the past four years TravelBird has been expanding to 18 countries across Europe, and our websites now feature the most competitively priced holidays. Last April the famous Samwer brothers from Germany came on board as TravelBird’s first investors. TravelBird owes its success to a refreshingly simple idea: make it easy to book spectacular holidays and experiences by offering inspiring travel deals each and every day. Today TravelBird operates out of a large office on the Keizersgracht in the heart of Amsterdam, where over 400 enthusiastic and international “Birdies” work to find the best holiday destinations and create great deals for everyone.
A day as an Account Manager New Business
We start each day with a fresh coffee and a sales update to establish our goals and see if we are still on the right course together. Throughout the day, you are constantly researching current trends, evaluating the competition and identifying new hot leads in order to enable TravelBird to promote the most unique and diverse daily deals. You will work individually on establishing, developing, maintaining and expanding a client portfolio. Aftersales, relationship management and executing administrational tasks are also part of your daily routine. To maximize your personal revenue, you will have to negotiate the best rates and commission percentages and proactively contract new leisure providers (hotels & touroperators). Apart from working individually on achieving your personal targets, you will be expected to join efforts with team members from travel advisors and web editors in order to stimulate growth of your country as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Who you are
- Creative, Enthusiastic, Flexible and FUN;
- Smart (Bachelor degree in Business Studies, Economics, Marketing);
- Knows how to sell and have 1 or 2 years sales experience;
- Your heart beats faster when thinking of closing deals and traveling;
- Positive, happy and eager to learn something new every day;
- A genius in creating new business opportunities & a native level French and/or Flemish speaker;
- An excellent communicator, a persuasive individual who influences those he meets with;
- A natural sales person who constantly follows up leads;
- Live in (or around) the beautiful and vibrant city Amsterdam or are willing to move..
Why we are happy birdies
- Heaps of challenges & a once in a lifetime adventure;
- Freedom, responsibilities and creativity;
- Healthy lunches & cold beers in the fridge;
- A brand new MacBook Pro;
- An awesome and inspiring hangout above one of the most famous canals in Amsterdam;
- Each day flies by;
- Colleagues from all over the world;
- We ride our own TravelBird bikes;
- Oh, and we get paid as well...
Up for it?
Spread your wings and apply now by going to travelbird.nl/careers! For questions regarding your application you can call Philippine (recruiter birdie) at 0031 (0)20-3080404.