Distribution Partnerships Executive

Ryanair Ltd.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Death in service

Annual leave 20-25 days

Travel benefits

Job summary

Ryanair Ltd. is recruiting for a Distribution Partnerships Executive to join Europe’s largest airline group. The role focuses on insights-driven business development within the marketing team, handling partnerships from negotiations to onboarding and ongoing queries.

You will manage partner relationships, monitor performance, prepare pitches, and work cross-functionally with marketing to meet team objectives. Prior GDS/travel experience is advantageous.

Qualifications

• 1+ years’ experience in Sales, Business Development, or similar role.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies, Sales, Marketing, or similar field.
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to present and explain ideas to a variety of audiences
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Enthusiastic to build good relationships with people
• Previous GDS/travel distribution experience would be an advantage
• Proficient in MS Office

Responsibilities

• Support the Distribution Team to manage a portfolio of distribution partners from corporate to leisure travel.
• Manage partnership relationships from contract negotiations and onboarding to day-to-day queries and post-booking processes.
• Monitor performance and report on weekly figures to senior stakeholders.
• Manage invoicing process with partners to ensure payments get paid and received in a timely manner.
• Attend bi-weekly meetings with partners and tech teams to ensure timelines are on track to reach set goals.
• Become the main point of contact for partners to help answer, elevate, and delegate any queries.
• Research business and industry trends to identify potential new clients and ways to serve existing clients in corporate travel.
• Prepare client presentations and materials, including PowerPoint and sales displays.
• Preparing and delivering pitches to potential new leads.
• Negotiate business terms with new and existing clients using phone, email and in-person meetings.
• Sales statistics, calculating metrics such as ROI, pipeline value and qualified leads per month.
• Work cross-functionally with the whole marketing department to meet and surpass team objectives.

Skills

Sales

Business Development

Communication

Time Management

Presentations

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Studies

Bachelor's degree in Sales/Marketing

Tools

GDS experience

Job description

Ryanair are currently recruiting for a Distribution PartnershipsExecutive to join Europe’s largest airline group!

This is an excellent time to join Ryanair as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300m guests per year within the next 10 years.

We have an exciting opportunity for an insights driven Business Development Executive to join the wider Marketting team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of Europe’s biggest and best digital platforms in a fast paced and challenging environment.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Support the Distribution Team to manage a portfolio of distribution partners from corporate to leisure travel
• Manage partnership relationships from contract negotiations and onboarding to day-to-day queries and post-booking processes
• Monitor performance and report on weekly figures to senior stakeholders
• Manage invoicing process with partners to ensure payments get paid and received in a timely manner
• Attend bi-weekly meetings with partners and tech teams to ensure timelines are on track to reach set goals
• Become the main point of contact for partners to help answer, elevate, and delegate any queries
• Research business and industry trends to identify potential new clients and ways to serve existing clients in corporate travel
• Prepare client presentations and materials, including PowerPoint and sales displays
• Preparing and delivering pitches to potential new leads
• Negotiate business terms with new and existing clients using phone, email and in-person meetings
• Sales statistics, calculating metrics such as return on investment (ROI), pipeline value and qualified leads per month
• Work cross-functionally with the whole marketing department to meet and surpass team objectives

Requirements

• 1 + years’ experience in Sales, Business Development, or similar role
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies, Sales, Marketing, or similar field.
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to present and explain ideas to a variety of audiences
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Enthusiastic to build good relationships with people
• Previous GDS/ travel distribution experience would be an advantage
• Proficient in MS Office
• Discounted and unlimited travel to over 250 destinations
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme – Matched up to 5% or €5,000
• Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary
• 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.
• Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year