Account Specialist- Seoul
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:
Growth and Accelerator Team
Growth and Accelerator is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s emerging and high-growth accommodation partners. Members of our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. We develop win-win relationships and leverage Agoda’s unique accommodations portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantages they seek. Utilizing our strong brand and resources, we roll out new products to increase the visibility of Agoda, introduce more travelers to our great products and services, and deliver significant revenues to the overall business.
The Opportunity:
As an Account Specialist, your key objective is to increase the coverage and quality of Agoda’s supply network. You take care of a large portfolio of emerging supply partners and assist in partnership related functions at a scale.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Contact high growth supply partners to highlight revenue growth opportunities and maximize value
- Contact new or potential supply partners to encourage completion of their online registrations
- Monitor partner performance and support simple action plans to improve production and revenue.
- Support the identification of supply and promotion needs to better match market demand in key destinations.
- Communicate efficiently with partners through various communication methods including face-to-face visits, phone, email, messaging and webinars
- Train and inform partners on our technologies, tools and models
- Maintain accurate partner information and support basic weekly or monthly reporting in internal systems.
- Prioritize daily tasks, monitor results and track progress in internal systems
What you’ll need to succeed:
- 0-2 years’ experience working in business development or execution role preferred although fresh graduates welcome to apply
- In-person sales execution experience
- Autonomous and result driven (history of achieving ambitious targets)
- Native level Korean to communicate with Korean speaking clients and intermediate English to communicate internally
- Demonstrates basic computer skills
- Analysis skills desired
- Analytical and proven track record in using data to drive achievements and make decisions
- Intellectual curiosity
- Ability to work under pressure in a competitive industry/rapidly changing environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, can have minimum of 10 meaningful conversations with partners per day
- Ability to work in a highly dynamic environment and is open to change in responsibilities, workflows, as needed by the business
- Able to support the Korean market and follow the business hours & public holidays in the Korean.
It’s Great if you have:
- Driver’s license with good driving skills and a clean record
Discover more about working at Agoda
- Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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Disclaimer
We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.