#DespegarTeam is a group of professionals dedicated to creating the best experiences in order to enhance people's lives by traveling. We work as a team, we get involved and we are not afraid to be wrong before learning how to do it.

Being part of #DespegarTeam is being able to grow and develop as professionals. We set goals and do not stop until we achieve them. We innovate, create, learn from mistakes, and thus, consolidate ourselves as the most important travel platform in Latin America. We solve problems and develop new IT solutions for the travel industry.

We have a new challenge for those who:

Are the key to their own professional growth and seek to maximize their talent
Are looking forward to create new high quality solutions and make things happen
Are exacting, competitive and do not get stuck

In Despegar/HotelDO - we are a great team of professionals dedicated to revolutionizing the world of tourism through technology. We work as a team, get involved, are not afraid of making mistakes and we always want to go for more. We constantly generate new and better ideas to encourage the challenging world of tourism and technology.

Responsibilities:

Develops and manages a strategy for new account development for the global market.
Develop and execute a strategic business plan that meets or exceeds established sales goals and supports company revenue and profitability targets
Prepare and present powerful, persuasive sales presentations that effectively demonstrate the value proposition of Direct Travel’s products and solutions.
Develop and maintain a robust prospect pipeline to continuously grow the business and generate sales
Act as a liaison between key customers and internal stakeholders, in order to meet account performance.
Negotiate agreements, contract, overrides, SLA, incentives and marketing campaigns with partners.
Deliver quantitative results, business understanding and strategic insights to partners.
Identify new revenue generating opportunities and build business cases to prioritize.
Suggest solutions and innovative ideas to meet client needs.
Ability to travel quarterly to attend trade shows, conferences, or sales calls.

Position requirements

Demonstrable background in sales within the travel industry
Have a high understanding of the travel industry, wholesale, API/XML knowledge basics.
Minimum 3 years of experience in the travel industry, wholesale/business to business sales experience preferred.
Ability to assess client’s business needs and advise decision makers on how HotelDO’s products and services can best meet their travel needs
Strong commercial, negotiation, communications and organizing skills.
Ability to work and thrive in a multi-tasked, ever changing fast paced environment.
Analytical and proven track record in using data to drive strategy and make decisions.
Existing strong relationships within the travel industry - bedbanks, OTA, TO and TA.
Excellent in problem-solving.
Ability to liaise, influence, drive action plans at senior level with our clients and internal stakeholders.
Fluent English, oral and written skills. And any additional language is considered an advantage

We offer:

Being part of a company that is a leader in the Travel industry.
Belong to a team of professionals who are passionate about traveling in the world of technology and make it possible for others to travel.
Integrate a team that uses technology as a way of innovation and resolution of opportunities.
Develop your own career path in a competitive and challenging world.
Discount in travel.
Extensive Growth Opportunities.
Competitive salary.

If you want to be part of a unique team in the travel industry, join us!

Choose Despegar as your next destination!

At Despegar we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where meritocracy and equal opportunities are integrated into all our talent management processes, fostering diversity as part of our constantly evolving culture.