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Professional Exchange Program Associate
Posted on 6/24/2008 By Spain USCC
Start Date: 6/24/2008
Contact: info@spainuscc.org

Job Description – Professional Exchange Program Associate

The Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce is looking for someone with excellent writing skills and reading comprehension. The ideal candidate should have a “take charge” personality and should be comfortable reading, interpreting and implementing federal regulations for the Chamber’s Professional Exchange Program.

The Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit membership organization based in New York City. Its mission is to promote trade and investment between Spain and the United States. Through an active program of events, publications, marketing and services, the Chamber provides business opportunities and contacts as well as information services to its members and to many corporations and individuals in both countries.

The Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been granted authority by the United States Department of State to sponsor training programs for a period of up to eighteen (18) month and intern programs for a period of up to twelve (12) month periods. The regulations of this program require that the Chamber appoint a Responsible Officer for the program who thoroughly understands the regulations and the purpose of the program and can effectively carry out the program’s mission. More information about the program may be found on our website www.spainuscc.org.

The Professional Exchange Program Associate, if qualified, will be appointed to the position of Responsible Officer for the Chamber’s programs. This person will be expected to expeditiously process applications for participation in the program.

Position
The Professional Exchange Program Associate at the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce will be responsible for liaising with the United States Department of State and maintaining the Chamber’s program.

The Professional Exchange Program Associate, if qualified, will be appointed to the position of Responsible Officer for the Chamber’s programs. This person will be expected to expeditiously process applications for participation in the Professional Exchange Program. This entails: 

  • review and approval/ denial of each application
  • recording of application in Chamber database
  • maintenance of exchange visitor database
  • exchange visitor interview
  • host site visit 
  • data entry in Department of State database and generation of Certificate of Eligibility DS-2019
  • follow up with each exchange visitor to ensure status compliance
  • collection of surveys
  • completion report for each exchange visitor
  • maintain contact with the Department of website
  • end-of year activity report

The Candidate
Candidates should be resourceful with excellent communication, analytical and research skills. Experience with Microsoft Access and Internet browsing is strongly recommended. Spanish language and familiarity with Spanish culture is also strongly recommended. Excellent writing a reporting skills are a must!

Salary
Remuneration based on experience. The Chamber also offers excellent health benefits.





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Specialist in Landowner Agreements and Negotiations
Posted on 3/28/2008 By Neo Energy Solutions, Inc.
Start Date: 3/28/2008
Contact: kbrown@neoenergysolutions.com

Neo Energy Solutions, Inc. seeks an individual with experience in working and negotiating with landowners to acquire land for the development of wind energy projects.

JOB SUMMARY
Specialist in Landowner Agreements and Negotiations

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
High School or technical school degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 
Paralegal or Real Estate diploma, or bachelor's degree

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
2-4 years

REQUIRED SKILLS 
Excellent oral and written skills, organization skills, advanced Microsoft Office skills

PREFERRED AND VALUED SKILLS 
Map experience, abililty to communicate (or fluency) in Spanish

JOB DUTIES

  • Negotiate, define and persue land acquisition rights with landowners
  • Facilitate client, vendor and landowner communications
  • Manage database for landowners and project information 
  • Assist with identifying sites, permitting activities, title search and development acitivities

PAY AND BENEFITS 

  • competitive salary
  • Benefits
  • Holidays and vacation time

Contact: Kevin Brown, Director of Business Development: kbrown@neoenergysolutions.com (267) 253 2847.





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Sales Executive
Posted on 1/22/2008 By Transhotel
Start Date: 1/22/2008
Contact: selección@transhotel.com

 

Main short-term responsibilities:

All kind of commercial tasks in connection with the sales, registering and servicing of customers using TransHotels’s On-line Reservation Systems.

 

Main responsibilities and tasks:

Planning and carrying out sales efforts towards the Tourism Travel (Agencies)

Establishing presentation meetings

Maintaining relationships with existing customers through regular review visits;

Visiting potential customers to show Transhotel and gain new markets;

Negotiating agreements with customers

Establishing and maintaining customer database

Register and follow-up on sales and customer information

Customer Service

Participating in/coordinating advertising promotion and public relation activities.

 

Salary & benefits:

Expected monthly salary of € 35.000,00  + Mobile phone, Lap Top and health insurance.

 

 

Working place:                 

Mainly in the NYC Office

 

Profile - candidate

 

 

Personality - character

·          Self-motivated with good initiative

·          Creative and outgoing

·          Feeling “home” within an entrepreneurial environment

·          Good oral and written comprehension and expression and deductive reasoning

·          Effective presentation skills

·          Structured with a good sense of order

·          Work great with people

 

 

Education, experience, knowledge

·          Bachelor’s degree desirable

·          2-3 years of experience within sales /Customer Service– preferably within the tourism and/or hotel trade

·          Knowledge of methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services

·          Well known with processes for providing customer and personal services

·          Experienced user of Microsoft Office Products is essential

 

Who are we?

 

A great Tourism Group

 

To date, the Transhotel group is made up of 6 businesses related to the tourism industry and more than 1000 professionals that work day to day with the fundamental objective of offering hotels and tourist services throughout the world for travel agents worldwide.

A group that offers a new dimension to the concept of service as well as constantly being on the cutting edge of technology, always offering the best solutions for tourism professionals

 

Global Provider

 

Since its launch in 1995, Transhotel, the group's main company has come to be recognised as one of the most important Reservations Centres in the world. Its constant technological growth and evolution with regards to the number of hotels and services marketed and along with the volume of travel agency clients has permitted Transhotel to convert into one of the main Global Travel Services Providers.

 

How to apply?

Application by e-mail to: selección@transhotel.com, enclosing full CV and current salary details. Reference: Contracting Manager NY.

 





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Product Development Manager for Hotel Wholesaler
Posted on 1/4/2008 By Transhotel
Start Date: 1/4/2008
Contact: selección@transhotel.com

The person hired for this position will be responsible for researching for new hotels and renewals to work with us throughout the country and negotiating the rates and conditions with them.

Primary responsibilities and tasks

  • Reporting weekly to the Madrid Office
  • Establishing presentation meetings with the hotels
    Negotiating agreements (Negotiated rates, allotments, cut offs and promotion)
  • Attended wholesale trade shows
  • Establishing and maintaining hotels database
    Customer Service
  • Participating in/coordinating advertising promotion and public relation activities

 

Salary & benefits

Expected monthly salary dependent on experience + Mobile phone, Lap Top, health insurance and travel insurance.

 
Working place

Based in New York and travelling around the East coast (also Hawai and Caribbean). It will be necessary for the employee to travel to the head office based in Madrid twice a year in order to meet with the rest of the team.

 

Candidate Profile

Personality - character

  • Dynamic.
  • Organized communicative candidate.
  • Suited to negotiation, sales and purchase.
  • Good communicator.
  • Innovative: creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
    Persistence.
  • Team player and at the same time independent: job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

 

Education, experience, knowledge

  • It is ESSENTIAL, at least 1-2 years, in Tourism Business negotiating rates and contract’s conditions.
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and negotiation products (in this case, showing Transhotel as a consolidated company).
  • Native or with bilingual level of the language of English plus fluent Spanish.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

Send full resume (CV) and current salary details to email address above, with "Contracting Manager NY" in the title.

 

Transhotel: A great Tourism Group

To date, the Transhotel group is made up of 6 businesses related to the tourism industry and more than 1000 professionals that work day to day with the fundamental objective of offering hotels and tourist services throughout the world for travel agents worldwide.

A group that offers a new dimension to the concept of service as well as constantly being on the cutting edge of technology, always offering the best solutions for tourism professionals.


Global Provider

Since its launch in 1995, Transhotel, the group's main company has come to be recognised as one of the most important Reservations Centres in the world. Its constant technological growth and evolution with regards to the number of hotels and services marketed and along with the volume of travel agency clients has permitted Transhotel to convert into one of the main Global Travel Services Providers.

  • Suppliers: more than 43.000 hotels and services throughout the world
  • Clients: more than 73.400 travel agencies
  • Presence: 22 countries, with 25 branches
  • Technology: permanent investment I+D+i
  • Product: the best offer and availability
  • Innovative solutions: TOR System® and its numerous tools
  • Tariffs: Ongoing permanent negotiations to offer the best tariffs on the market
  • Profitability: guaranteed commission
  • Administration: online confirmation and documentation on line
  • Reservations: www.transhotel.com, www.transvacaciones.com, www.hotelplus.com and freephone Call Centre in 6 languages
  • Information: the most complete database of marketed hotels and services
  • Team: More than 1000 professionals providing the best service




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Administrative Assistant
Posted on 11/28/2007 By GMS Management Solutions Usa Inc.
Start Date: 11/28/2007
Contact: careers@msnorthamerica.com

Management Solutions
ManagementSolutions is a multinational company providing professional business advisory and consulting services. We conduct projects on strategy, organization, processes and operational efficiency, monitoring and management of risk and related technologies, focusing mainly on the financial services industry and on the energy and telecommunications industries. Our targets are both functional aspects and the implementation of related technologies in industry-leading companies.

Our projects are characterized by their strategic relevance and constant innovation. Based on our extensive knowledge of the businesses and industries in which our clients operate, we help them to effectively meet and deal with their current business management challenges. Our mission: To provide our clients the best way to realize their goals. This requires a strong culture of commitment and excellence and is the chief hallmark of our services.

MS has more than 700 professionals working in offices in Spain, Portugal, Italy, the UK, the United States and the most representative countries in Latin America.

 

Position description
Due to the recent opening of our office in New York City, we currently have an exciting part-time opportunity available for an Administrative Assistant to be responsible for and manage all the internal matters at the office.
The responsibilities may include one or more of the following:

  • Provide administrative executive support to Management.
  • General administrative responsibilities (telephone coverage in both English and Spanish, mail, filing, copying, accounts payable).
  • Accounts payable, communication with accountant.
  • Reception and consolidation of Time and Expense Reports.
  • Control of internal expenses and job costs.
  • Translation support.
  • Marketing research.
  • PowerPoint presentation support.
  • Event organization.
  • Support to the HR activities: contact with universities and candidates, management of the different steps in the hiring process, training material preparation, external training research.
  • Mail reception and distribution.
  • Other related duties as required.

 

Required qualifications

  • At least 1-2 years of experience at an auditing/consulting company.
  • Bilingual English-Spanish.
  • Strong skills and expertise in Excel and Microsoft Office in general.
  • Accounting knowledge.
  • Bachelor degree.

 

Desired skills

  • Familiarized with Financial environments and its processes.
  • Other foreign languages a plus.
  • Candidate must have a positive attitude, be energetic, enthusiastic, and friendly.
  • Manage confidential information and activity with extreme professionalism
  • Proven ability be able to multiple task, problem solve, be a self starter
  • Must possess professional, polished, presentation with exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal skills
  • Must possess a strong degree of business acumen
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively work with customers, vendors and internal staff.
  • Proven organizational skills with extremely strong attention to all details
  • Ability to work well in a fast-paced and demanding work environment

 

We seek people with a desire to excel and learn constantly; people who are dynamic, mature, dependable and who integrate easily in multidisciplinary teams.

Applicants for employment in the United States must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Management Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity of our team members.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send Cover Letter, resume and university transcripts to:
careers@msnorthamerica.com

 

Additional information
Location: New York City, NY, United States
Percentage travel: No Travel
Salary range: Competitive Salary and benefits
Work Types: Part Time, Regular

Contact information:

Julian Sanchez de Rojas      
1120 Av. Of the Americas, 15th floor   
New York, NY 10036       
+1 (212) 626 – 66 40

Cristina Artacho
Pza. Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 1
28020 Madrid (Spain)
+34 91 514 59 70





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