Account Manager

4 days ago

Gauteng, South Africa Booking.com Full time

Gauteng, South Africa
- Not Applicable
- 20874

**About Us**:
**Role Description**:
As an Account Manager, you will manage your own portfolio of partners across most of South Africa, which requires frequent business travel (typically around 50%).

**Key Job Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Partner communication: Build and maintain strong relationships with partners by communicating clearly, tailoring your style to the audience, and providing consultative guidance.
- Market management: Analyze local market trends and drivers, prioritize opportunities, and manage your portfolio of accounts to maximize business value.
- Needs analysis: Identify and understand partner needs, challenges, and opportunities to deliver tailored support and create measurable value.
- Driving outcomes: Lead conversations effectively to secure partner commitment and achieve positive results.
- Personal growth: Demonstrate self-awareness and emotional intelligence, using feedback and reflection to continually improve your impact with partners and achieve business goals.
- Bring solid experience in account or partner management, ideally within e-commerce or the travel industry
- Are fluent in English, with strong communication skills in speaking and writing
- Excel at managing your time, setting priorities, and staying organised while handling multiple responsibilities
- Take a proactive approach, show ownership, and are comfortable working independently
- Have sharp analytical skills, attention to detail, and a data-driven mindset
- Enjoy collaborating as part of a team, while remaining flexible, open to change, and self-motivated
- Approach challenges with a positive, solutions-oriented attitude
- Hold a valid driver’s license and are available to travel up to 50% of the time
- Have limited experience managing a large portfolio of partners simultaneously
- Primarily focus on acquiring new partners rather than developing and growing existing relationships
- Find ambiguity or evolving processes difficult to navigate
- Prefer a reactive approach rather than proactively driving outcomes
- Have an inflexible schedule that limits your ability to travel as required (around 50%)

**Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance**:

- Performance related bonus
- Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
- Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
- Private health insurance, commuting allowance & lunch allowance

Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

**Application Process**:

- Let’s go places together: How we Hire
- Interviews will be conducted in English
- This role does not come with relocation assistance.

**_
Please note: Our Recruitment team is based across different locations in EMEA - please ensure you submit your resume written in English._**

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