Company Description

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

We are looking for a Connectivity Specialist – Hotel Distribution to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you have hands-on experience with channel managers, switches and hotel distribution connectivity, and are comfortable working with ARI flows, APIs and integration specifications, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.

Job Description

The job in brief:
Job Title - Connectivity Specialist – Hotel Distribution (Channel Managers & Switches)

Team - you will join General Hotel, lastminute.com group's hotel sourcing and distribution division, managing direct contracts with 23,000+ hotel properties worldwide.



We operate sophisticated B2C distribution through the group's consumer brands and are expanding our B2B capabilities through strategic partnerships and technology platforms.

Level - Professional

Location – Europe

What your impact will be:
• Act as the technical and commercial bridge between Global Hotel and the channel managers, switches and connectivity providers that power our hotel distribution.
• Act as the subject-matter expert on channel manager and switch connectivity: ARI distribution (availability, rates, inventory), booking delivery, content and mapping, and rate/availability push and pull.
• Engage directly and technically with channel managers, switches and aggregators (e.g. SiteMinder, D-EDGE, Cloudbeds, RateGain, DerbySoft, Availpro) to understand their capabilities, limitations and roadmaps, and benchmark them against each other and against our distribution requirements.
• Read and interpret partner API documentation and integration specifications to assess fit against our needs.
• Identify techni

📌 Connectivity Specialist – Hotel Distribution (Madrid)
🏢 Lastminute.Com
📍 Madrid