Changes continue to be made to Helloworld’s management team, with the latest being the appointment of a former Flight Centre Travel Group employee to a newly created role.
Joe McCormack was revealed as the new General Manager Land Purchase for the wholesale and inbound divisions.
Commencing on 26 April 2016, he will head up the Helloworld and AOT Group Contracting teams.
His responsibilities will include negotiating land product for all HLO Wholesale and Inbound brands including Qantas Holidays, Viva Holidays, Qantas Vacations, Go Holidays, Insider Journeys, Sunlover Holidays, Territory Discoveries, AOT Inbound, ATS Pacific, and ETA.
Cinzia Burnes, Helloworld’s Head of Wholesale and Inbound, said with McCormack heading up the global Contracting team and Leanne Chard in place to manage Product teams, the company has “a structure to provide our distribution partners and our supplier partners with the best possible outcomes”.
“There are significant synergies to be achieved within our new procurement structure and we believe our supplier partners will welcome the consolidation of the process which will deliver them access to a range of channels via a single point of contact within the business.”
Cinzia Burnes, Helloworld Head of Wholesale and Inbound
Before joining the Helloworld team, McCormack spent the last 10 years working for the group’s major rival, the Flight Centre Travel Group.
At Flight Centre, he led the specialist corporate land product team in sourcing, contracting and distributing hotel and ground transport products worldwide across the entire FCTG corporate brand network including FCM Travel Solutions, Corporate Traveller, Stage and Screen Travel, Campus Travel and Flight Centre Business Travel.
Prior to joining FCTG McCormack worked in various roles within the Hotel industry for 20 years, most recently at Saville Hotel Group.
McCormack’s appointment is the latest in a string of changes to Helloworld’s management team over the past month including the departures of Kim Portrate and Jenny Macdonald.
