Strategic Account Manager (Chiang Mai based)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know our Team:

Agoda is a travel booking platform and accommodation is at our core. As our accommodation partners are a key to our success, we work hard to ensure their success. That is why the Strategic Accounts Management (SAM) team in Agoda specializes in account management. We serve as consultants, offering strategic advice on how best to excel on Agoda’s commercial platform. We are direct contributors to what makes Agoda one of the market leaders because we understand accommodation needs and offer innovative solutions. From Bangkok to London and beyond, our team has footprints in over 50 locations around the world. With the help of industry-leading technology, we work and collaborate globally to bring together the best ideas from diverse perspectives. The SAM team invests in long-term relationships that spans borders and cultures and results in incredible value for Agoda, our partners, and our customers.

As a Strategic Account Manager, you will be the main contact between our accommodation partners and Agoda, with the responsibility of nurturing the relationship with our key supply partners and driving mutual growth. A key responsibility in developing our business is the ability to identify and acquire new sources of supply and product offerings within an assigned territory while maintaining existing relationships.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Builds and owns the long-term relationship (through proactive and reactive engagement) between Agoda and their strategic and/or key accounts (comprised of top producing hotel partners).
• Is responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the performance of their accounts, typically from a portfolio of the top producing properties for the country
• Proactively engages Agoda's supply partners, utilizing exemplary Strategic Account Management (SAM) approaches and practices to drive mutual growth and maximize value.
• Actively manages supply partners, providing consultative services and tailor-made solutions to hotel partners to improve mutual revenue growth.
• Demonstrates a data driven and consultative approach to prioritizing tasks and delivering pitches that lead to high conversion for each hotel partner.
• Maintains meaningful & high-frequency engagement with supply partners, including a minimum of one face-to-face interaction a quarter.
• Responds to the needs and requests of hotel partners in a timely and effective manner.
• Is capable of handling both input and output KPIs and achieves their individual KPIs with minimal supervision from an Area Manager.

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in business development and/or account management
• Strong interpersonal skills & ability to influence both external / internal stakeholders
• Experience in internet/e-commerce preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team player with a professional “get it done” attitude and work ethic
• Proven success in acquiring, building & maintaining long term customer relationships
• Adapts well to change and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to create new, innovative ideas
• Strong Proficiency in English

It’s Great if you have:

• MBA or Master’s degree
• Experience in Travel industry