Graduate Product Executive, based at Holiday House in Leeds City Centre. This is a hybrid role with the ability and scope to work flexibly from home.
Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays are looking for great people to join our award-winning team of colleagues and we are currently looking to hire a Graduate Product Executive to join our busy Head Office function in the Leeds Commercial Holiday Product team.
The Graduate Product Executive will take responsibility and support the management of a designated geographical area through the Product Lifecycle, planning, marketing and identifying opportunities ensuring that they meet customer needs and maximise sales and revenue in line with Company targets.
What will you do in the role?
You will be taking ownership of a geographical area and managing the life cycle of the product from the point it is contracted, through to it appearing on all distribution channels. You will also:
- Manage the bed brief, ensuring that contracted product is bought to brief or through agreed changes. This includes providing full support to the product planning and forecasting process.
- Continually review hotel inventory and request additional stock and challenge stop sales as required, maintaining availability across all selling systems.
- Take ownership for the content (descriptions and images) process for geographical areas, ensuring that all content is 100% accurate across all channels and systems, gives the best representation possible to the target customers and is delivered to agreed deadlines.
- Manage the brochure production process to agreed deadlines, ensuring the best representation and accuracy of each geographical area and the Jet2holidays brand.
- Create, maintain and develop relationships with all suppliers in the best interests of the customer and the company.
- Monitor the sales performance of all destinations and make amendments and recommendations in line with changing market positions.
- Continually monitor competitor activity at both a brand and geographical level and recommend necessary actions to any relevant department within Jet2holidays.
- Support the product quality, health and safety functions and legal processes within the business, taking necessary actions when required.
- Work closely with the contracting, marketing and revenue teams, identifying product to be featured both on and offline.
Key skills/experience
We are looking for someone who is passionate about travel and keen to build a career within the industry. You will be:
- An excellent communicator, communicating effectively with all levels across the business
- An effective team player, experienced in working across multiple departments but also willing to work off your own initiative.
- Highly numerate, analytical and accurate with excellent attention to detail.
- Have a good level of creativity and accuracy in the English language.
- Be dedicated, self-motivated, enthusiastic, flexible, able to work at pace and have a strong customer service ethic.
- Have strong organisational skills and be self disciplined.
- Have the ability to work in highly pressurised environment and be comfortable travelling abroad alone.
- Educated to degree level
- Be experienced with Microsoft Office, particularly Word / Excel / Powerpoint
What can we offer you?
We have been recognised as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in the UK on Glassdoor and offer our valued colleagues a range of benefits including:
- Competitive salary
- Contributory pension scheme
- 26 days holiday entitlement per annum (plus bank holidays)
- 3 x salary life assurance
- Generous Discretionary Profit Share Scheme
- Colleague discounts on Jet2holidays and Jet2.com holidays and flights
- Share Save scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Annual pay review
- Many retail discounts on – travel and leisure, health, and wellbeing, eating out, shopping and lifestyle
We offer an excellent remuneration package with fantastic opportunities for progression in a growing business.
This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting, forward-thinking business. We operate scheduled leisure flights to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands and to European Leisure Cities from our 10 UK bases.
Help us to send our all-important customers on holiday with Jet2.com and Jet2holidays!!