Opportunità di lavoro

Amsterdam (sedi) :

Content

• Content Editor
• Manager Translations
• Arabic Translator

Credit Control

• Credit Controller - German Speaker
• Global Chain Manager - Credit Control (Full-Time)
• Credit Controller – Polish speaker
• Credit Controller – Dutch Speaker
• Credit Controller – Italian speaker
• Financial Administrator (Full-Time)

Finance

• Management Accountant - Finance Department
• Senior Cash Clerk, Global Accounts

Hotels

• Manager Interface and Connectivity
• Account Manager XML / Interfaces
• Account Manager - Hotels Full-Time
• Junior Account Manager - Hotels Full-Time
• Hotel Coordinator - Hotels Full-Time

Internships

• Internship Hotels Dept. – Global Accounts Full-time (40 hours) Amsterdam
• Stagiaire – Hotels Dept. Nederlands
• Stagiaire – Hotels Dept. België/Luxemburg

IT

• WEB DESIGNER/HTML/Javascript Front-end Developer
• (Senior) Perl Developers

Marketing

• Analyst Geographic Data

Financial Administrator (Full Time)

Your main responsibility is to ensure that all direct debits as well as debit & credit notes are input and allocated accurately on daily basis. You will work closely with your colleagues within Credit Control as well as Cash Team.

Key responsibilities:

• Process Direct Debit forms and update existing Direct Debit accounts on daily basis;
• Ensure that every debit & credit note is generated on time, is accurate and complete;
• Effectively handle queries from team members (Credit Control and Hotels Team) building and maintaining an excellent relationship;
• Maintain a robust and workable filing process;
• Liaise with the bank’s customer service team;
• Be proactive in suggesting and implementing improvements to system, procedures and scalability including assisting in documenting all existing processes and procedures;
• Provide cover for the duties performed by other members of the team when needed;
• Prepare country specific tax and statistical forms;
• Take care of general administrative tasks;
• Handle ad hoc projects.

Requirements:

• Fluent in English and knowledge of another European language is a plus;
• Minimum 1 year previous experience in a similar role;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken;
• High attention to detail and accuracy levels;
• Self motivated with a positive approach;
• Strong organizational skills - Needs to be able to accommodate multiple tasks;
• Must be customer-oriented and service-driven;
• Team player attitude and have an open mind.

Interested?

Please send your CV and motivational letter to Hanna Nygren, jbex@obbxvat.pbz. You can also give her a call on +31  (0)20 715 34 37.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Account Manager - Hotels Full-Time

As Account Manager Hotels you are responsible for the hotels in your country specific area and at the same time cooperate with colleagues in the team to reach set targets. Your main responsibility is to ensure close commercial contact with our hotel partners in order to identify areas of improvement and optimize their commercial performance. You will acquire new hotel partners. An Account Manager Hotels builds good commercial relationships with hotels to ensure the hotels cooperate with us in the best possible way. You will maximize revenues and meets the demand of our visitors on Booking.com.

Main Responsibilities:

• Create strategic plans;
• Visit our important hotels;
• Responsible for area coverage;
• Take care of the contacts with hotels;
• Be a medium for complaints and problems;
• Take care of negotiations and contracts;
• Practice allotment management; getting more availability and better rates;
• Deliver quantity and quality reports;
• Responsible for after sales;
• Accompany and train hotels with implementation of system;
• Advise hotels about internet strategies;
• Organize and coordinate Tourist Trade Fair visits;
• Market our brand name to hotels;
• Expand and take care of networks.

Requirements:

• Affinity/experience with the hotel industry;
• 1-3 years of experience in a relevant sales/account management function;
• Fluent in English & language of country in which you wish to work;
• Pro-active, sense of responsibility, independent, customer friendly and target focused;
• Good communication and commercial selling skills;
• Team player, motivated and enjoy the sector of e-commerce and hospitality;
• Driver’s license;
• Hotel School or University background preferred.

If you are interested in this position, please send your motivational letter and cv to jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Management Accountant - Finance Department

As a Management Accountant you will join our current Finance Team in our office in Amsterdam. You will report directly to the Manager Corporate Accounting and work closely together with the Finance and Cash Team in the Amsterdam office and with the Finance team in Cambridge.

Main Responsibilities:

• Balance sheet and profit and loss review of Booking.com BV and all of its international subsidiaries (20+);
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual closing packages / management reports, including financial statements and related supporting schedules, including variance analysis;
• Ensure deliverance of accurate and timely management accounts in accordance with Corporate HQ guidelines and (SOX) procedures;
• Account reconciliation and preparation of monthly closing binder;
• Intercompany billing and reconciliation;
• Support corporate HQ (Priceline) with any ad hoc information or data requests;
• Responsible for periodic (corporate) tax calculations and filings;
• Assist in corporate audits of all subsidiaries worldwide;
• Fixed asset management;
• Ad Hoc projects.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4 years work experience in a similar position;
• Education Bachelor level or higher;
• Experience with SAP ERP preferable;
• Strong accounting skills and solid financial background (bookkeeping / accounting) and as such experienced with reporting such Management / Annual Reports;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Team-player;
• No 9 to 5 mentality.

Are you interested? Send an email to Hanna Nygren, jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give her a call on +31 20 - 715 3437.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

(Senior) Cash Clerk (Global Accounts)

As Cash Clerk (Global Accounts) you will have a important role in improving and driving the day-to-day activities of the Cash Team by processing and reconciling receipts from Global Chains (and payment systems) in an accurate, timely and efficient manner, and by analysing, developing and implementing improvements to our systems, procedures and relationships with Global Accounts.

Summary of the Role:

Your main responsibility is to process, control and reconcile all incoming payments from Global Accounts (and payment systems) as well as to proactively investigate and resolve unallocated cash items. You will also adhere to all service level agreements (SLAs) and deadlines agreed with the Credit Control team for the tasks detailed below.

Main Responsibilities:

• Daily posting and reconciling of all incoming receipts from Global Accounts ensuring accurate and timely allocation and minimal unallocated cash entries.
• Initiate appropriate and timely action to resolve any unapplied cash received or cash posting discrepancies (including daily contact with banks and internal clients at all levels).
• Make recommendations to Cash Team Manager and Finance project colleagues for improvements to existing procedures, assist in the design and documentation of processes and procedures, and ensure improvements are successfully embedded for future growth.
• Set up and maintain accurate records and files concerning customer remittance and accounts receivable posting transactions.
• Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Investigate and resolve queries relating to cash received and allocation details.
• Identify, research and correct billing discrepancies by working with Cash Team, Finance, IT, Global Accounts and Credit Control.
• Keep Cash Manager informed at all stages on payment issues and progress each day.
• Provide formal report of performance v KPI’s to Cash Manager (Weekly) and CFO (Monthly).
• Communicate proactively and clearly with external and internal customers on significant Global Account issues (e.g. Credit Controllers, Financial Administrators, Accounting Team, Global Accounts, Banks, Management, etc) to indicate progress and resolve issues.
• Build strong and collaborative relationships with internal teams and external providers.
• Support, coach and train other staff on Global Accounts as and when required.
• Assist with General Ledger accounts reconciliations and month end closing procedures.
• Support the company’s SOX compliance initiatives.
• Ensure sufficient team resources for current and future business demands.
• Handle ad-hoc projects whenever required.

Main Responsibilities:

• % of Global Accounts receipts allocated timely and accurately each day/month.
• % allocated and reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) per each Global Account.
• Effective and efficient Global Accounts collections processes (and reporting).

Requirements:

• 2 to 5 years experience in receipt processing, reconciliations, banking or accounting;
• MBO or Higher education level (with good results);
• Experience within global payment systems or hotel industry is desirable;
• Self starter with an ability to work efficiently, effectively and independently;
• Accurate with good attention to detail;
• Highly organised and proactive;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Strong reporting, analytical and maths skills;
• Team and service oriented approach;
• Advanced knowledge IT and MS Excel;
• Fluent in English language.

Are you interested? Send an email to Hanna Nygren, jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give her a call on +31 20 - 715 3437.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

(Senior) Perl Developers

Jobdescription

As senior developer, you are responsible for the development and maintenance of new web based systems. You are an unrestricted communicator and have a pragmatic attitude. The position will require you to work both independently and with others, leading projects, training and working within a team of passionate and highly skilled Perl developers.

Tasks

• You design and develop with colleague's new generation secure, scalable and high performance web based systems wherewith you take into account diverse aspects such as migration possibilities;
• The coaching of the developers;
• In co-operation with the Manager IT you schedule the technical priorities;
• You deal with questions about current systems and solve problems;
• Be a medium for complaints and problems.

Requirements

• Resident in the Netherlands or prepared to relocate;
• Preferably University level in Math or IT;
• At least 4 years of experience with software development;
• Wide demonstrable experience with Perl/mod_perl;
• Wide demonstrable experience with Object Oriented programming (preferably Perl);
• Experience with relational databases (preferably MySQL);
• Expert in data modelling;
• Experience with Linux and Apache;
• Pragmatic attitude;
• Independent en pro-active work attitude;
• Excellent communicative skills.

We offer you excellent conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our fast growing company.

Interested?

Please send your CV and motivational letter to:jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give Sheila Sijtsema a call at +31 (0)20 - 715-3015.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Credit Controller – Italian speaker

Job Description

As an Italian speaking Credit Controller you manage a portfolio of accounts. You will ensure that invoices are paid in accordance with the agreed payment terms and that queries are resolved efficiently; through the development of sound working relationships both internally and externally.

Main responsibilities:

• Drive and monitor daily Credit Control activities (including debtor administration);
• Contact customers regarding overdue accounts to settle balances immediately in full;
• Monitor overdue debtors, identify and action significant collection risk issues and minimize overall DSO;
• Communicate proactively and clearly with internal and external customers on significant issues to indicate progress and to resolve issues;
• Ensure that allocation issues are handled satisfactorily by working closely with the Cash Team;
• Actively note and document customer payment issues and communications;
• Be proactive in increasing the number of accounts that pay by Direct Debit, where available;
• Perform in accordance with business policy and procedures;
• Handle ad hoc issues and projects, whenever required.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years previous experience from collections or credit control;
• Native in Italian and good understanding of English;
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills (in all levels of business);
• Strong negotiating skills – Able to negotiate assertively when required;
• Strong time organisational and management skills;
• Analytical - Able to identify risks;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team – Strong team player;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (desired).

Interested? Send an email to Hanna Nygren, jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Credit Controller - German Speaker

As a German speaking Credit Controller you manage a portfolio of accounts on the Austrian and Swiss ledgers, ensuring that invoices are paid in accordance with the agreed payment terms and that queries are resolved efficiently; through the development of sound working relationships both internally and externally.

Key responsibilities are:

• Ensure cash collection targets are met each month.
• Monitor overdue debtors, action significant risk issues and minimize overall DSO (Days Sales Outstanding).
• Communicate proactively and clearly with external and internal customers on significant issues (e.g. Hotels Team, Credit Control colleagues, Team Leader) to indicate progress and resolve issues.
• Increase number of hotels satisfying contractual obligations by updating the Booking.com extranet in time for monthly invoicing and work on solutions to overcome barriers and improve scalability.

Other responsibilities:

• Contact customers regarding overdue accounts to settle balances immediately in full (or when appropriate working with customers to resolve accounts through payment plans, settlements and other collection tools).
• Ensure that follow-up contact is established with customers in a timely manner.
• Ensure that allocations issues are handled satisfactorily by working closely with the Accounts Receivable/Cash Team.
• Ensure that Accounts Receivable/Cash Team promptly resolves allocation issues and communicates effectively the results.
• Recognise and proactively communicate significant collections issues/risk; escalate them appropriately.
• Identify and highlight credit notes and write-off concerns.
• Actively note and document customer payment issues and communications.
• Promote strong collaborative relationships between internal teams, especially Hotels and Accounts Receivable/Cash team members.
• Be proactive in increasing the number of accounts that pay by Direct Debit, where available, or by Bank Transfer.
• Perform in accordance with business policy and procedures.
• Handle ad hoc issues and projects, whenever required.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years previous collections or credit control experience;
• Fluent in German, spoken and written and good understanding of English;
• MBO or Higher education level.
• Excellent Communication & interpersonal skills (in all levels of business).
• Strong negotiating skills . able to negotiate assertively when required;
• Strong time management and organisational skills;
• Analytical and being able to identify risk;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team . strong team player;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (desired).

Interested? Send your updated CV together with a motivational letter to jbex@obbxvat.pbz to the attention of Hanna Nygren or give her a call on: +31 20 - 715 3437.

Global Chain Manager – Credit Control (Full-Time)

Job Description

As Global Chain Manager your main responsibility is to improve and drive the day-to-day activities of the Global Chain Team by analyzing, developing and implementing improvements to our systems, procedures and relationships with Global Hotel Chains such as Hilton, Marriot, NH Hotels and Accor.

You will report directly to the Global Credit Control Manager and work closely together with several departments in Amsterdam as well as with the Hotels Teams in our local offices worldwide. You will work at the Credit Control department in our Head Office in Amsterdam.

The Global Chain Manager role involves daily interaction with the senior management and external clients. Therefore the role necessitates strong leadership, people management and communication skills.

This role is a new position and will involve a lot of business development activities from starting and setting up proper processes to control and reconcile payments from Global Hotel Chains as well as leading the Global Chain Team. You will adhere to all service level agreements (SLA) and deadlines agreed with the Credit Control team. You will also be the representative of Finance-AR in negotiations with hotel chains, both payment terms and other contractual issues/escalations.

Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organisation the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

Main Responsibilities:

• Collect open invoices related to hotel chains (Global & non Global);
• Set up scalable solutions;
• Cross functional communication;
• Increase growth of company;
• Improve cycle times such as DSO, cash allocation and delivery of invoices;
• Manage the workload;
• Drive progress within the organization through simple and targeted action plans;
• Implement short term loops of progress (= tackle the issues one by one at a high pace);
• Be a clear leader for the team;
• Create best practice and share with peers;
• Be a business partner with Hotels team in all different levels;
• Create an out of the box mind set to improve customer payment behavior;
• Have a bi-weekly coaching sessions with the team;
• Take ownership of key performance indicators such as DSO, % received cash, within 30 days, 60 days and 90 days;
• Review and correct the operational processes within Financial Services;
• Ensure adherence to company policies and applicable governmental regulations;
• Liaise with peers and CTB across the business to create successful roll outs.

Key metrics:

• % of Global Accounts receipts allocated timely and accurately each day/month.
• % allocated and reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) per each Global Account.
• Effective and efficient Global Accounts collections processes (and reporting).

Requirements:

• + 5 years experience in receipt processing, reconciliations, banking or accounting;
• Relevant experience within global payment systems and/or hotel industry;
• Advanced negotiation skills;
• Proven project management, process development and problem resolution capabilities;
• Strong, enthusiastic and motivating leader;
• Accurate with attention to detail;
• Self-starter with ability to work efficiently, effectively and independently;
• Strong reporting, analytical and maths skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (in English) towards different levels in the organization with the ability to drive and effectively communicate change;
• Experience in leading teams to success, ideally international;
• Advanced presentation and interpersonal skills;
• Team and service orientated approach;
• Good reasoning abilities and sound judgment;
• Advanced knowledge IT and MS Excel;
• Willingness to travel.

Interested? Send your updated CV together with a motivational letter to jbex@obbxvat.pbz to the attention of Hanna Nygren or give her a call on: +31 20 - 715 3437.

WEB DESIGNER/HTML/Javascript Front-end Developer

Join Europe’s #1 Online Hotel Reservations Company in the center of Amsterdam

As HTML/CSS/Javascript front-end developer, you will be designing and implementing the user interfaces of Booking.com websites. You have a good sense for colors, images, layouts. But you are a GUI designer, not an artist. Usability is more important for you than a pretty picture. You are a developer in the sense that your output will be fully functional cross-browser HTML/CSS/Javascript code instead of mockup images. You make sure that front-end technology works in all browsers, and delivers for the customers of Booking.com.

Booking.com is the market leader in Europe for on-line hotel reservations with more than 1000 employees worldwide and a total of 24 offices worldwide. Our headquarters is located in the centre of Amsterdam and we offer a dynamic international work environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Designing and developing the user interface of the Booking.com website with HTML/CSS and JavaScript
• Day to day maintenance of the Booking.com production websites
• Work together with colleagues of Design, IT and Marketing to improve usability
• Conduct experiments and usability tests

How we work:

We make our design decisions based on experiments and testing. We receive thousands of visits to our website on a daily basis; therefore we know instantly which experiments work and which don’t.

Required Skills

• Strong sense for consistent design of user interfaces, usability and accessibility
• Expert mastery of cross-browser front-end technologies: HTML and CSS
• Solid experience with Javascript
• Experience with table less design
• Experience with templating systems
• Familiarity with browser quirks and workarounds
• Working knowledge of W3C standards for web development
• Experience with validating, testing and bug fixing
• Experience with graphical software (e.g. Photoshop)
• Able to work well independently and within a team
• You are a good communicator with a “can do” attitude
• Confident working with cvs or similar version control systems
• Ability to code hand-crafted html

Interested?

Please send your CV and motivational letter to:jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give Sheila Sijtsema a call at +31 (0)20 - 715-3015.

Analyst Geographic Data

Analyst Geographic Data

Booking.com is a market leader in online hotel reservations in Europe. Since 1996 our team has expanded to more than 1300 professionals from many different backgrounds including Hotels, Finance, IT and Marketing, and has built a company that provides online hotel reservations in the best possible way. We believe that the passion and talent of our employees is our strength and is what drives us towards outstanding performance.

Does a successful career to you mean challenges and delivering results?

We offer a dynamic, motivating and sophisticated work environment. A culture that is open, innovative and performance orientated. Our scale and scope, commitment to people and high standards of integrity make Booking.com a great place to work. If you would like to be part of our team, if you think you can make a difference, have a closer look at this job opening.

Role:

Due to the continuous growth of our company we are currently looking a new colleague to join our international, young and dynamic team of professionals in our office in Amsterdam.

As an Analyst Geographic Data you are responsible for geographic data and searches, analyze this information and give an advice to different stakeholders within the company. Your main goal is to become the primary contact point for all geographic data within Booking.com

You will report directly to the COO and work closely together with the Marketing, IT and Content team.

How we work:

We make our design decisions based on experiments and testing. We receive over a million visitors to our website on a daily basis. This data gives us detailed information on which changes are successful and which ones are not.

Main Responsibilities:

• Main contact point for all geographic data in our company;
• Develop geographic databases;
• Monitor and analyze geographic searches;
• Manage and develop the geographic data and search;
• Use different methods to improve quality of search results;
• Add, remove, edit polygons and point data;
• Work with development team to improve search algorithms;
• Recognize the implications of geographic data and changes for the different areas of the company and act and advise accordingly.

Requirements:

• Relevant work experience with geographic data;
• Master or Bachelor education e.g mathematics, social geography, econometrics;
• Excellent technical skills and computer knowledge;
• Excellent analytical skills;
• Practical hands-on approach;
• High attention to detail and accuracy levels;
• SQL and/or script programming knowledge and/or wiliness to learn;
• Self-starter, team-player;
• Working knowledge of English, both written and spoken.

Interested?

Please send your CV and motivational letter to jbex@obbxvat.pbz to the attention of Hanna Nygren or give her a call on: +31 (0)20 715 34 37.

Junior Account Manager - Hotels Full-Time

Job description

As a Junior Account Manger Hotels you work in collaboration with the Account Manager to reach targets. In our Hotel Department, you will assist the Account Manager in developing and managing his/her region to maximize revenues and meet the demands of our visitors on Booking.com

Tasks:

• Monitor the rate parity and locate the best rates and availabilities;
• Create and ensure the follow-up of commercial mailings to further develop the region;
• Assist in the preparation of market visits;
• Follow up on cancellations, evaluations and complaints.

You will also manage some of the hotel partners in the same region:

• Secure more partners and optimize the current partnerships;
• Monitor statistics with the range of available tools;
• Meet revenue targets;
• Implement an action plan with the Account Manager;
• Prepare weekly reports.

Requirements:

• Affinity/experience with the hotel industry;
• 1-2 years of experience in a relevant sales/account management function;
• Fluent in English & language of country in which you wish to work;
• Pro-active, sense of responsibility, independent, customer friendly and target focused;
• Good communication and commercial selling skills;
• Team player, motivated and enjoy the sector of e-commerce and hospitality;
• Driver’s license;
• Hotel School or University background preferred.

Are you interested? Send an email to jbex@obbxvat.pbz attaching your C.V and a letter of motivation.

Only candidates that fulfill all of the above requirements are taken into consideration.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Hotel Coordinator - Hotels Full-Time

Job description

As a Hotel Coordinator you are responsible for hotel websites, training and coaching hotels and the commission payments. Furthermore you offer support for the Area & Account Manager(s) Hotels with the phone calls and the administrative tasks at the office.

Tasks:

• Contact person for hotels to turn to with questions when the Account managers Hotels are out of the office;
• Responsible for the coordination and production of new hotel websites;
• Responsible for the delivery of correct hotel information and pictures of newly registered hotels;
• Training of new hotels using our extranet, rates & availability system;
• Enter the rates, availability, promotions in our system for hotels;
• Check hotel websites and amendment of rates, availability, specials, promotions;
• In consult with the Area Manager Hotels and Account Managers Hotels you contact registered hotels regarding the rates & availability system;
• Assist with acquisition of possible new hotels; preparation of mailings;
• Follow up of mailings, information to hotel by telephone;
• Follow up of IT/administrative related tasks;
• Periodically check up of hotels;
• Answer e-mails of hotels;
• Check competition in the local country;
• Take care of good contacts with hotels in order to secure up to date information;
• Assist with the settlement of complaints of hotels and customers;
• Handle guest reviews that need action;
• Check statistics in the control room and follow up.

Requirements:

• Affinity/experience with the hotel industry;
• Pro-active, sense of responsibility, independent and customer friendly;
• Good communication and commercial selling skills;
• Team player, motivated and enjoy the sector of e-commerce and hospitality;
• Fluent in English & language of country in which you wish to work;
• Hotel School or University background preferred.

Are you interested? Send an email to jbex@obbxvat.pbz attaching your C.V and a letter of motivation.

Only candidates that fulfill all of the above requirements are taken into consideration.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Internship Hotels Dept. – Global Accounts Full-time (40 hours) Amsterdam

Job Description:

Global Hotel Accounts is part of the Hotels Department and is responsible for the cont(r)acts with the global hotel chains.

We are looking for a trainee who can assist the Global Hotel Accounts Team with the daily operations.

You report to the Manager Global Hotel Accounts. You work at the Hotels Department at the head quarters in Amsterdam.

As a trainee you assist the Global Hotel Accounts Team with organizing the global hotel chain agreements internally and with preparing chain and competitor reports. You work closely together with other departments such as the XML Interface Team, the Project Team (Hotels Department), Credit Control and Customer Service in Amsterdam, as well as with the Hotel Teams in our local offices worldwide. Furthermore you offer support to the Global Hotel Accounts Team and the administrative tasks at the office.

Responsibilities:

• Handle daily emails in general inbox;
• Coordinate building new hotel websites for hotel chains;
• Coordinate content projects;
• Coordinate with the local hotel teams the modifications in the system (new room types, new hotels, new rates) requested by chains;
• Make monthly hotel chain reports on bookings, revenue and conversions from participating hotels;
• Assist in preparing chain visits (statistics, checking hotels on content, rates, availability);
• Create standard operating procedures for local hotel teams;
• Create standard documents about Booking.com for chains to send out to their hotels;
• Analyze chain products;
• Make competitor reports;
• Assist team with daily tasks;
• Update chain administration;
• Update presentation material and intranet;
• Assist in new projects coming up.

Depending on the workload other tasks may apply not mentioned above.

Requirements:

• Education on HBO level (e.g. hotel management school);
• Fulltime available in 2009 (at least 5 months);
• Affinity with internet and hotel industry;
• Excellent project management skills;
• Analytical and commercial skills;
• Self starter;
• Result oriented;
• Service-minded;
• Fluent in English, and preferably another language.

If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Stagiaire – Hotels Dept. Nederlands Full-Time (40 Hours) Amsterdam

Als stagiair(e) op de Hotels Department Nederland , ben je medeverantwoordelijk voor het opbouwen en behouden van een goede relatie tussen BOOKING.COM en de hotelpartners. In overleg met de manager Hotels Department maak je strategische plannen en stel je de doelen voor je stageperiode vast. Je bent het aanspreekpunt voor hotels bij vragen over het systeem, het invoeren van prijzen of specials en geeft advies aan hotels over hoe zij hun resultaten kunnen verbeteren. In een klein gemotiveerd team streef je er samen naar om het beste resultaat voor jouw gebied te behalen.

Tot je werkzaamheden behoren o.a.:

• Het monitoren van de prestaties van hotels en ze voorzien van strategisch advies om de resultaten te verbeteren;
• Zorgdragen voor de websites van de verschillende hotels, waaronder het bijhouden van de beschikbaarheid van de hotels, het bijhouden van de prijzen van de kamers en het bijhouden van de special offers en packages;
• Relatiebeheer van hotels;
• Meedenken over en helpen realiseren van nieuwe acties op de website;
• Maken van analyses van consumenten en concurrenten met als doel de samenstelling en de kwaliteit van het aanbod te verbeteren;
• Het begeleiden van hotels bij de aanmeldingsprocedure;
• Opstellen van acquisitielijsten samen met de manager Hotels;
• Het verkrijgen van (extra) beschikbaarheid in drukke periodes (evenementen, beurzen);
• Input geven voor de nieuwsbrief aan onze hotelpartners.

Voor deze uitdagende stage zijn wij op zoek naar iemand die zich herkent in de volgende omschrijving:

• Je bent student aan een relevante HBO-opleiding (bijv. Hoge Hotelschool, NHTV);
• Fulltime beschikbaar (minimaal 5 maanden);
• Ervaring met internet en hotelindustrie;
• Uitstekende commerciële en organisatorische kwaliteiten;
• Analytisch en probleemoplossend vermogen;
• Klantgericht, resultaatgericht en zelfstandig;
• Goede kennis van de Nederlandse en Engelse taal.

Heb je interesse? Stuur dan een e-mail naar: jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Stagiaire – Hotels Dept. België/Luxemburg Full-Time (40 Hours) Amsterdam

Als stagiair(e) op de Hotels Departement België/Luxemburg, ben je medeverantwoordelijk voor het opbouwen en behouden van een goede relatie tussen BOOKING.COM en de hotelpartners. In overleg met de manager Hotels Department maak je strategische plannen en stel je de doelen voor je stageperiode vast. Je bent het aanspreekpunt voor hotels bij vragen over het systeem, het invoeren van prijzen of specials en geeft advies aan hotels over hoe zij hun resultaten kunnen verbeteren. In een klein gemotiveerd team streef je er samen naar om het beste resultaat voor jouw gebied te behalen.

Tot je werkzaamheden behoren o.a.:

• Het monitoren van de prestaties van hotels en ze voorzien van strategisch advies om de resultaten te verbeteren;
• Zorgdragen voor de websites van de verschillende hotels, waaronder het bijhouden van de beschikbaarheid van de hotels, het bijhouden van de prijzen van de kamers en het bijhouden van de special offers en packages;
• Relatiebeheer van hotels;
• Meedenken over en helpen realiseren van nieuwe acties op de website;
• Maken van analyses van consumenten en concurrenten met als doel de samenstelling en de kwaliteit van het aanbod te verbeteren;
• Het begeleiden van hotels bij de aanmeldingsprocedure;
• Opstellen van acquisitielijsten samen met de manager Hotels;
• Het verkrijgen van (extra) beschikbaarheid in drukke periodes (evenementen, beurzen);
• Input geven voor de nieuwsbrief aan onze hotelpartners.

Voor deze uitdagende stage zijn wij op zoek naar iemand die zich herkent in de volgende omschrijving:

• Je bent student aan een relevante HBO-opleiding (bijv. Hoge Hotelschool, NHTV);
• Fulltime beschikbaar (minimaal 5 maanden);
• Ervaring met internet en hotelindustrie;
• Uitstekende commerciële en organisatorische kwaliteiten;
• Analytisch en probleemoplossend vermogen;
• Klantgericht, resultaatgericht en zelfstandig;
• Goede kennis van de Nederlandse, Engelse en Franse taal.

Heb je interesse? Stuur dan een e-mail naar: jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Credit Controller – Polish Speaker

Job Description

As a Polish speaking Credit Controller you manage a portfolio of accounts. You will ensure that invoices are paid in accordance with the agreed payment terms and that queries are resolved efficiently; through the development of sound working relationships both internally and externally.

Main responsibilities:

• Drive and monitor daily Credit Control activities (including debtor administration);
• Contact customers regarding overdue accounts to settle balances immediately in full;
• Monitor overdue debtors, identify and action significant collection risk issues and minimize overall DSO;
• Communicate proactively and clearly with internal and external customers on significant issues to indicate progress and to resolve issues;
• Ensure that allocation issues are handled satisfactorily by working closely with the Cash Team;
• Actively note and document customer payment issues and communications;
• Be proactive in increasing the number of accounts that pay by Direct Debit, where available;
• Perform in accordance with business policy and procedures;
• Handle ad hoc issues and projects, whenever required.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years previous experience from collections or credit control;
• Native in Polish and good understanding of English;
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills (in all levels of business);
• Strong negotiating skills – Able to negotiate assertively when required;
• Strong time organisational and management skills;
• Analytical - Able to identify risks;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team – Strong team player;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (desired).

Are you interested? Please send your CV and motivational letter to: jbex@obbxvat.pbz

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Credit Controller – Dutch Speaker

(This is a full time position based in Amsterdam.)

As a Dutch speaking Credit Controller you manage a portfolio of accounts. You will ensure that invoices are paid in accordance with the agreed payment terms and that queries are resolved efficiently; through the development of sound working relationships both internally and externally.

Main responsibilities:

• Drive and monitor daily Credit Control activities (including debtor administration);
• Contact customers regarding overdue accounts to settle balances immediately in full;
• Monitor overdue debtors, identify and action significant collection risk issues and minimize overall DSO;
• Communicate proactively and clearly with internal and external customers on significant issues to indicate progress and to resolve issues;
• Ensure that allocation issues are handled satisfactorily by working closely with the Cash Team;
• Actively note and document customer payment issues and communications;
• Be proactive in increasing the number of accounts that pay by Direct Debit, where available;
• Perform in accordance with business policy and procedures;
• Handle ad hoc issues and projects, whenever required.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years previous experience from collections or credit control;
• Native in Dutch and good understanding of English;
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills (in all levels of business);
• Strong negotiating skills – Able to negotiate assertively when required;
• Strong time organisational and management skills;
• Analytical - Able to identify risks;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team – Strong team player;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (desired).

Are you interested? Send an email to Maurice Timmermans, jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give him a call on +31  (0)20 713 35 84.

Agencies and/or external recruiters should not contact us regarding this position.

Area Manager Hotels (Rome)

It is a fulltime position and you will be working from our office in Rome. You are responsible for the team in Rome and report to the Regional Managing Director. You manage and motivate all employees in the team. You create strategic plans and quantity and quality reports.

Function description:

• Manage and motivate the team;
• Responsible for coverage of the appointed area;
• Together with the Regional MD, set new areas for acquisitions;
• HR tasks (reviews, training);
• Analyze existing areas and ways for improvement;
• Develop promotions based on seasonality of the appointed area;
• Create strategic plans;
• Visit our important hotels;
• Deliver quantity and quality reports;
• Market our brand name to hotels;
• Expand and take care of networks.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/University degree;
• A minimum of 4 years of leadership experience;
• 2 - 4 years of experience in a relevant function in the hospitality industry;
• Understanding of the hotel market;
• Drivers license;
• Customer focused, independent, sense of responsibility and target focus;
• Excellent communication and commercial skills;
• Knowledge and skill of Italian (fluent) and English;

INTERESTED?

We offer you excellent conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our fast growing company. Only applicants that fulfill the above motioned criteria will be considered.
Please email full curriculum vitae with cover letter in English to Mariska Hekkers, jbex@obbxvat.pbz

To find our more about BOOKING, visit www.booking.com

Content Editor (Amsterdam)

As a Commercial Content Editor, you are part of our Content Department. You will focus mainly on optimizing revenue by creating and improving hotel content - such as hotel text and photos - based on available factual information. This is a full time position based in the Amsterdam office.

Main responsibilities:

• Quickly identify the selling points of each hotel property or hotel room you work with - we deal with many thousands of them!
• Select and arrange hotel photos from a variety of sources;
• Write English-language commercial text that is clear, informative and catchy for a diverse audience of all nationalities;
• Create web-friendly content that is easy to scan, easy to read and easy to translate;
• Understand travel markets and the feedback from guest reviews to better promote our product;
• Identify and correcting wrong information displayed in text or images;
• Review and standardize copy created by non-Editors;
• Adapt smoothly to rapidly changing web-writing trends and experiments;
• Maintain a productive relationship with Account Managers and hoteliers who will learn more about Content from you;
• Work closely with Translators, Content Associates and Project Teams.

Requirements:

• Minimum 1 year experience in Commercial Editing or Copy-writing;
• Excellent commercial writing skills - Able to summarize information, make it attractive and engage buyers;
• Industry experience in Hotels, Hospitality, Travel or Online Retail;
• Experience with Content Management Systems;
• Basic photo editing experience;
• Fluent English and impeccable grammar and spelling;
• Quick and resourceful researcher (Google, Wikipedia, competitor sites, etc.);
• Passionate about writing commercial text for the web;
• Flexible, accurate and stress-resistant.

Interested???

We offer you excellent conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our fast growing company.

Please send your CV and motivational letter to: jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give Hanna Nygren a call at +31-(0)20-715-3437.

MANAGER TRANSLATIONS (full time Amsterdam)

As Manager Translations you are responsible for the translations activities within the Content Department. You will manage the operations of the team of translators in Amsterdam, and act as a functional manager for the translators in our local offices, ensuring policies, procedures, quality guidelines and priorities are set and followed.

The goal of the Translations Department is to have all web content translated into as many languages as possible in most efficient manner, ensuring optimal quality in order to achieve optimal conversation in all languages.

You report to the Manager Content Operations and work in the Translations Department in our Head Office in Amsterdam. You strongly liaise with other Content Management department heads in the Amsterdam head office. Your direct reports are Senior Translators/Translation Team Leader(s) in Amsterdam. Your functional reports are Senior Translators in the local offices.

Key responsibilities:

• Identify, initiate and implement translation process/workflow/system improvements and organizational structure changes in order to gain more and better translations;
• Manage and drive new business initiatives through the translations department worldwide;
• Manage all operational activities the translations team in Amsterdam, including recruitment, planning, productivity, training, coaching the teams;
• Identify business opportunities for new languages and plan and roll out accordingly. This includes costs/profit analysis and recruitment analysis to advice management;
• Optimize Quality Management standards and processes for the department- in line with Editing guidelines;
• Optimize Glossary and Style instructions in coordination with the Editing Department, ensuring translations guidelines are in line with commercial guidelines;
• Coordinate and communicate translations priorities in an efficient manner with all Booking.com offices, including special / ad hoc translations requests;
• Provide ongoing management support in terms of motivation, workload distribution, training, best practice and advisory guidance on a daily/weekly basis;
• Create good communication lines with your team, hold regular effective team meetings and one-to-one sessions.

Requirements:

• HBO/University level;
• Extensive knowledge of translation tools;
• Experience with change management;
• Proven management experience, preferably in an international work environment in the online business;
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage complex operational processes;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills;
• Commercial awareness and results-driven with hands-on mentality;
• Proactive, enthusiastic and motivating leader;
• Excellent knowledge of the English language;
• Willingness to travel.

Interested???

We offer you excellent conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our fast growing company.

Please send your CV and motivational letter to: jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give Hanna Nygren a call at +31-(0)20-715-3437.

Arabic Translator

Join Europe’s #1 Online Hotel Reservations Company in the center of Amsterdam

Job Description:

As a translator with Booking.com, you are part of our Content team, which consist currently of more than 80 translators, translating in 24 different languages. The Content team manages the hotel web-page content including drafting of hotel descriptions, editing, translating texts and monitoring the display of guest review feedback onto the website.

As an Arabic Translator you are responsible for translating all the information on our website from English into Arabic. Utilizing your specific language skills, you will translate a variety of texts, such as the hotel content, press releases, newsletters, and any other content related matters.

You will make the translations from our office in Amsterdam. It is not possible to do this from home.

Requirements:

• Native Arabic and excellent knowledge of the English language;
• Proficient in using Arabic keyboard;
• Experience with translation of commercial texts;
• Bachelor/University level;
• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Word and Internet);
• Preferably a tourism background;
• Flexible, accurate, stress resistant.

Interested???

We offer you excellent conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our fast growing company.

Please send your CV and motivational letter to: jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give Hanna Nygren a call at +31-(0)20-715-3437.

Manager Interface and Connectivity

Position within the organization:

You are responsible to the Commercial Manager Hotels. You work at the Hotels department in the office in Amsterdam.

The Role:

As Manager Interface & Connectivity you manage all activities relating to supplier interfacing and connectivity.

Your main responsibility is to ensure the timely completion of all supply connectivity projects from beginning to end. Your knowledge will bring together both commercial and technical aspects of a project, leaving no room for error or misunderstanding in final analyses. You will ensure full support is given to the Commercial Manager and Manager Global Accounts at all stages of negotiations with global supply organizations and you will be the main contact for all interface and connectivity related questions from suppliers, management and overseas teams. Under your guidance, your team will carry out all business as usual requirements liaising regularly with all internal and external suppliers, remaining flexible to the ad-hoc needs of the business.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage your team effectively ensuring best practice and strong performance;
• Play central role in analyses with all suppliers;
• Communicate at all times in a clear and concise manner;
• Guide hotel partners and/or IT providers through the release of an interface;
• Analyze technical performance of interfaces suggesting potential improvements;
• Monitor all live connections and liaise with Hotels teams to ensure optimum levels of performance;
• Act as primary contact during any connection failures and liaise with IT to rectify any issues;
• Ensure staff are both motivated and well trained on all relevant procedures;
• Manage and delegate daily tasks alongside projects to ensure a balanced overall effort;
• Demonstrate good forward planning and preempting of issues;
• Coordinate integrations of both individual and chains hotels;
• Oversee the certification and roll out of all new interfaces and sustain a sense of urgency.

Requirements:

• Strong sense of ownership;
• Good communication skills;
• Previous experience in XML project management preferred;
• Excellent overall technical knowledge;
• Strong analytical side;
• Fluent written and spoken English;
• A ‘get it done’ mentality;
• Shows flexibility;
• Team player.

If you are interested in this position, please send your motivational letter and CV to Hanna Nygren at jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give her a call on +31  (0)20 715 34 37.

Account Manager XML / Interfaces

Position within the organization:

You are responsible to the Manager Interface and Connectivity. You work at the Hotels department in the office in Amsterdam.

The Role:

As Account Manager XML/Interfaces you assist the Manager Interface and Connectivity with ongoing XML and interface projects.

Your main responsibility is to ensure close contact with major partners such as Global Chains and IT companies in order to identify areas of improvement to interfaces and to optimize their performance. You will also introduce the Booking.com XML interface to new suppliers.

You will work on the daily requests of potential partner hotels (connectivity) whilst giving support to the Hotels teams and answer questions from the technical, sales and reservation staff, both internally and externally.

The complex nature of interfacing and connectivity means that some of the tasks or duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

Main Responsibilities:

• Initial sales analyzes with hotels, chains and IT providers about the possibilities of the interface;
• Guide the hotels, chains and IT providers through the release of the interface;
• Analyze the hotels on interface for improvements to make on the hotel/IT side;
• Train Booking.com staff on the procedures for xml hotels;
• Handle XML integrations of hotel chains and individual hotels;
• Be a contact point for IT companies and hotels on XML;
• Handle of bugs and questions related to XML;
• Supply interested parties with the necessary information to connect to our interface;
• Coordinate the roll out of new interfaces;
• Certification of new interfaces;
• Communication of amended items in the interface.

Requirements:

• Interested in technical processes and optimization of working methods;
• Strong sense of ownership;
• Preferably knowledge of XML;
• Strong analytical side;
• Fluent written and spoken English;
• Good communication skills;
• A ‘get it done’ mentality;
• Flexible;
• Team player.

If you are interested in this position, please send your motivational letter and CV to Hanna Nygren at jbex@obbxvat.pbz or give her a call on +31  (0)20 715 34 37.