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