Technical Account Manager

Hotelbeds is the world´s leading bedbank.

The company’s proprietary technology helps providers of travel services distribute their offering to travel sellers globally via an easy-to-use, advanced technology platform that increases reach, revenue and yield for both the provider and the seller.
Operating under the Hotelbeds brand in the wholesale channel and the Bedsonline brand in the travel agents channel, the company connects over 60,000 travel intermediaries across more than 140 source markets globally with travel providers in over 185 countries representing more than 170,000 hotels, 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities.

The company is headquartered in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

This position sits within our Bedbank unit.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
**Job Description**:
The Technical Account Manager is responsible for B2B integrations with hospitality services suppliers (chains, bedbanks, platforms, etc) as well as managing their business-as-usual connectivity projects at technical level.
In addition to proactive supplier and relationship management, you will serve as an escalation point for issues that impact the supplier success by effectively fielding and working closely with the engineering and commercial teams to resolve cases or proactively identify improvements, optimizing their feeds.

The role combines technical background with analytics and business implications, working on implementing new solutions / defining technical requirements / improvements along to IT / Product Management / Commercial teams / Suppliers.

Main Responsibilities:

- Monitor and report key performance metrics that reflect supplier operational status and turnover
- Investigate and propose to the Product Team potential improvements or upgrades in the supplier connectivity, gathering requirements and supporting the business case/tests definition
- Manage & Optimize each account assigned tunning the technical setups, allowing to distribute the right product reaching highest possible accuracy
- Keep continuous contact with providers (conference calls, visits ) to understand their inputs and propose solutions that benefit both parties
- Keep technical information about supplier connectivities well documented/up to date.
**Requirements**:
**Skills**:

- Advanced understanding of technical logic, component of any supplier integrations
- Ability to use monitoring tools and ease of learning multiple tools to support daily work
- Strong analytical skills with a data driven mindset
- Strong ability to understand business plans (commercial area) and their technical implications
- Good communication skills / interpersonal skills (exposure to a vast pool of stakeholders including top management) / Proactive attitude and social skills. Experience handling partnerships
Experience
- Previous experience in technical account management, preferably at least 2y / in the travel industry
- Experience with defining product / technical requirements based on business inputs
- Experience monitoring/interpreting metrics, step back, connect the dots and proactively take actions upon
- Experience analysing big data and extracting conclusions and actions from it
- Experience using microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook )

**Qualifications**:

- Technical background / degree - computing science, or related
- Knowledge about RESTful APIs. Previous experience supporting API based software development products
- Familiarity interpreting data/logs from XML/JSON/YAML formats and working with SQL databases
- English professional proficiency. Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to convey complex technical situations to end users of all technical abilities, including the ability to produce usable, maintainable documentation and excellent presentation
- Project management skills are desirable
Key Challenges
- Technical reference and leadership abilities
- Strong technical, logical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Team player with an agile mind-set
- Combine a tech and business view, in a good common sense
- Manage priorities to perform highest impact actions first
- Ability to multi tasking, working under pressure and in highly changing environments
You will have the opportunity to work for a company that is going through significant change in becoming the world´s leading travel services provider. We are looking for people that are ready to ride the wave in this exciting journey.

As well as an attractive benefits package you will be able to work:

- Within an innovative, engaging and multicultural environment.
- Have the opportunity to build strong and lasting business relationships and friendships from around the world.
You will have the opportunity to work for a company that is going through significant change in becoming the world´s leading travel services provider. We are looking for people that are ready to ride the wave in this exciting journey.

As well as an attractive benefits package you will be a