Product And Contracting Support

OUR COMPANY TMG is a leading travel & hospitality business within Asia offering 4 different pillars within travel; DMC, Hotels and cruises - we own 11 hotels and 7 river and sea boats with plans to expand our assets as we move into these new mar-kets; Airlines, we own 3 seaplanes that operate in our homeland Vietnam; Online - as one of Vietnam's most successful Online travel Agents, we are industry leaders in technology, developed inhouse. Vivu Journeys is one of the brands owned by TMG. We are a Destination Management Company (DMC) operating in the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with bigger plans to expand globally.Vivu Journeys works as a business to business (B2B) partner of tour operators and travel companies around the world, as their trusted partner in country to create, book and operate touring holidays on their behalf. We work with accom-modation, experiences, food and beverage suppliers, transportation companies and tour guides to create tours and holidays within the countries we operate in. POSITION PURPOSEThe purpose of the Product and Contracting Support role is to support the work of the Product and Contracting Execu-tive, who is based in the UK. This is a bilingual role, and the candidate must speak English to a business level, this will be assessed during the interview process. The position is newly created to support increased workload and demand for the UK & Ireland. MAJOR TASKSNew sales - Assist Product and Contracting Executive in obtaining information and rates to be used in new sales pitches.- Collate and send such information and rates to business development team.Contracting - Assist Product and Contracting Executive in the contracting of all UK and Ireland suppliers.- Obtain up to date pricing and validity of all supplier costs, maintaining their validity in the Vivu Journeys Connect system.- Support in the negotiation of contracts.- Work with line manager to ensure suppliers terms are negotiated in line with customer requirements.- For existing business, re-contract suppliers to improve margin on bestsel-ling tours.Product- Assist Product and Contracting Executive in management of the UK & Ireland product portfolio.