Product Procurement Lead

7 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Expat Explore Travel Ltd Full time

**About Us**:
TourAxis specialises in building innovative travel brands and platforms. We aim to bring new and innovative travel products, services, technology platforms, and companies, growing these ideas from conception to start-up and scaleup phases. Our portfolio of brands includes Expat Explore, Group Tour Shop, Rail Rocker, PlugPlug, and more. As we continue to grow and expand our product and procurement, we seek a highly skilled and experienced Product Procurement Lead based in our Cape Town office. We believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where all employees can thrive. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our values, culture, and everyday practices.

**Our Core Values**:
Our values shape the way we work and define the people we want to join us on our incredible and exciting journey ahead of us:

- Always Ready to Help
- Being Trustworthy
- Solutions Before Problems
- Family-Style Hosting
- Show respect, Earn Respect

**The Opportunity**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Procurement Lead to join our team in Cape Town.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities **_(in no specific order)_
- Negotiate and contract a portfolio of hotels with exclusive rates, conditions, and inventory
- Be the expert of your assigned region by having in-depth knowledge and understanding of your regional market and destination
- Build and maintain relationships with suppliers and various partners
- Excellent knowledge of the hubs such as the hotel groups, the attractions, etc
- Develop and ensure good relations with peers and colleagues in the different internal processes
- Represent TourAxis at Trade Shows and other events as and when required
- Experience and ability to build products that are commercially successful
- Understand client needs and wants
- You are able to research products, visit suppliers
- Ability to build relationships and KPIs

**Key Relationships**
- Hotel partners
- Local services and experience suppliers
- Product
- Finance
- Brand Managers
- Operations Management

**Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications**
- Experience in hospitality management is strongly preferred
- 2+ years of experience in hotel / supplier contracting or a similar role.
- Proven track record of negotiating competitive agreements
- Strong understanding of the hospitality industry
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with hotel managers and other industry professionals
- Exceptional negotiation skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of an organisation including hotel management and owners
- Strong commercial skills
- Able to work to deadlines independently in a fast-paced and ‘scaling-up’ environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication including high proficiency of verbal and written English

**You will Enjoy**
- Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring company, passionate about travel
- Working as one team towards our goal to financial excellence
- Growing and learning continuously with loads of encouragement and support
- Taking calculated risks as we navigate our growth challenges
- Flexible working practices enabling your best delivery
- Being autonomous and empowering to lead

**Benefits**
- A competitive remuneration package and annual leave
- Enviable company culture focused on our core values - we’ve put time into getting our work culture just right
- Regular team social events, company wide recognition, etc
- Opportunities to innovate
- Well-being app “Ollie Health”
- Statutory Pension enrolment
- Company equipment for business use

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Important Disclaimer**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Experience**:

- Travel/Hospitality: 2 years (preferred)

**Location**:

- Cape Town, Western Cape (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (preferred)



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