Account Manager - Gift Cards in England

Payments Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel brand is looking for an Account Manager - Gift Cards to manage relationships with gift card suppliers and drive sales. You will work closely with commercial teams to implement new solutions and analyze market trends. Ideal candidates will have a background in the gift card industry, outstanding organizational and communication skills, and a commercial focus. Offering a salary of £35-45k plus bonuses and excellent benefits, with hybrid working.

Benefits

Subsidised travel/holidays

Market leading benefits

Hybrid working arrangement

Qualifications

• Experience in the gift card/voucher market is a plus.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day queries with the new gift card supplier.
• Support gift voucher purchases and redemptions.
• Attend monthly supplier review meetings and create account plans.
• Assist in implementing a new voucher solution.
• Analyze customer and competitor trends.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Supplier management

Account management

Project implementation

Marketing experience

Job description

Overview

• Hybrid working with regular visits to Luton office
• Leading global travel brand
• £35-45k + bonus & excellent market leading benefits including subsidised travel/holidays

Account Manager - Gift Cards

Are you a gift card / gift voucher professional who's seeking an exciting new role?

Our client is a leading travel company, with a fantastic brand reputation and an extensive product portfolio including tour operators, cruise & airline sectors to their global business. A unique opportunity has now arisen to join the business within the gift card space, supporting the Senior Commercial Manager in the implementation, supplier management and sales/marketing promotion of a refreshed gift card offering.

Working closely with the wider commercial teams, your role will involve:

• dealing closely with the new gift card supplier, managing day to day queries & building up a great relationship
• work with your team to help drive & support gift voucher purchases and redemptions
• create account plans and attend monthly supplier review meetings
• helping implement a new voucher solution, though excellent organisation and operational support
• research customer & competitor trends, analysing pain points & opportunities
• work closely with sales & marketing teams in different regions to ensure sales promotion for gift cards is effective & compliant

Our ideal candidate would be able to chat to us about the following skills & experiences:

• commercial focus, with great organisational / planning & communication skills
• previous experience of / exposure to the gift card / gift voucher market would be a huge bonus in this role
• supplier management (including performance reviews) would be great to see
• able to build great working relationships
• passionate about doing a great job & delivering results - motivated, self-managed and able to demonstrate initiative
• account management, supplier management, project, implementation, marketing - a role in any of these spaces would be beneficial experience
• although we are a travel brand, we have plenty of travel experts here already - so this isn’t essential experience - if you have it, great, but we are more interested in finding a candidate from the gift card space who can bring their value to our team!