Account Executive, Commercial Partnerships

at  KAYAK

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.
As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
KAYAK is seeking a highly motivated and curious Commercial Partnerships Account Executive to support our commercial activities in the Flight vertical and manage strategic partnerships. This role is ideally suited for a quick learner with a curiosity about air travel and how everything builds into the wider travel industry, adept analytical skills, and strong interpersonal skills a must as this role is external facing.

• Build and maintain business relationships with travel agency distribution partners on the flight vertical.
• Analyze and monitor partner performance, with proactive investigation to address changes or issues.
• Develop strong relationships with the KAYAK commercial, engineering, finance and product teams.
• Help identify opportunities to improve existing relationships in terms of revenue generation and the best user experience.
• Support Team Managers with strategic accounts, including reporting, tracking, billing, day-to-day operations, optimization, etc.
• Monitor the competitive landscape of travel search sites, identify KAYAK’s weaknesses, formulate and execute a plan to close the gap.