Product Manager at Wakanow.com Limited

Wakanow.com is Nigeria’s leading online travel company that provides customers with everything they need to research, plan and purchase a trip locally and globally.

Wakanow.com offers travelers the cheapest available fares for flights, hotel reservations, airport pickups, visa assistance, vacation packages and many other travel services from a broad selection of partners.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Manage the entire travel product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. Conduct margin analysis, industry/market research, and in-life performance measurement to determine travel products demand, positioning, viability, and profitability.

Job Functions

• Analyze potential partner relationships for the travel products.
• Identify the business and operational requirements based upon the business requirements and objectives of each product.
• Liaise with travel partners, including airlines and hotels, to manage bookings and schedules, often one year in advance.
• Conduct research about new destinations in order to gain information on issues and amenities of interest to consumers.
• Directs, coordinates, and participates in merchandising the travel products, such as airport pick up, accommodation, packaged or specialized tours, or vacation packages.
• Keep up to date with any changes in the existing products.
• Constantly carry out research to understand customer travel partner and popular travel locations.
• Identify and present innovative and creative travel product solutions.
• Specify market requirements for current and future travel products by conducting market research supported by research of customers and non-customers.
• Must be able to offer specialist, professional and competitive travel product, which includes online bookings and tailor-made trips.
• Pre-empts potential problems and provides effective solutions in reaction to the application of concepts, techniques, knowledge, or processes developed to support a new travel product.
• Manage the existing products and services and improvise business strategies to bring about developmental changes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing or other related field.
• Knowledge of the tourism industry
• Knowledge of the hospitality industry

Required skills:

• Entrepreneurial and commercial.
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations.
• Learning and researching.
• Applying expertise and technology.
• Formulating strategies and concepts.
• Analyzing.
• Planning and organizing.
• Creating and innovating.
• Writing and Reporting.
• Working with people.
• Adapting and responding to change.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online