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Travel Consultant

Travel Trade Recruitment
Posted 18 days ago, valid for 18 days
Location

Reading, Berkshire RG7 1JY

Salary

£23 per hour

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Salary: Starting salary of £23k pa, with a realistic OTE of £25k pa - £28k pa
  • Experience Required: At least 12 months experience within a travel sales role
  • Job Description: Taking enquires and creating luxury travel itineraries, specialising in luxury cruise products, ensuring exceptional customer service, following up on quotes, taking payments, making amendments to itineraries, assisting with pre- and post-departure queries, upselling additional products and excursions, bringing new ideas to the business, working to achieve sales targets
  • Experience Required: Previous travel industry sales experience with knowledge of luxury travel and cruise preferred
  • The Package: Salary starting at £23k with an OTE of £25k - £28k pa, with potential to earn up to £30k - £35k pa for Senior Consultants and Top Earners

An amazing opportunity has arisen for experienced Travel Consultants to join a luxury cruise travel company as part of their sales team as a luxury cruise consultant. They are based in beautiful offices near Reading (parking available). If you have at least 12 months experience within a travel sales role, pride yourself on your professional friendly approach and feel that exceptional customer service & attention to detail leads to sales, this is the perfect Travel Industry opportunity for you! Starting salary is £23k pa, with a realistic OTE of £25k pa - £28k pa, but potential to earn much more. And this is a company that values it's team highly, so good benefits & career progression is part of the package!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

  • Taking enquires and creating luxury travel itineraries
  • Specialising in luxury cruise products
  • Ensuring every potential customer is offered a friendly, knowledgeable, professional service,
  • Following up on quotes to try to ensure they are aware of unbeatable prices or alternative quotes to secure a reservation
  • Ensuring all itinerary details are communicated thorough to the client
  • Taking Payments
  • Making any initial amendments to itineraries
  • Assist with pre- and post-departure queries
  • Upsell be offering additional products and excursions to ensure a customer's unique experience
  • Bring ideas to the business, help find new potential customers
  • Work to achieve sales targets and earn commission.
  • Be flexible to work 5 days over a 7 day rota, primarily between 9am to 6pm

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

The ideal candidate will have previous travel industry sales experience, with knowledge of luxury travel and cruise. However, if you have worked for a high street retail travel agency and have not specialised in luxury or cruise, but are keen to do so, this is a great opportunity for you to develop in your Travel Industry career. And if you have target driven sales experience from an alternative industry, with exceptional customer service and ability to liaise with high-touch clientele, this could give you the opportunity to start a career in travel, at a point this industry is really taking off again.

THE PACKAGE:

Salary's start at £23k with an OTE of £25k - £28k pa, but Senior Consultants and Top Earners can earn in the region of £30k - £35k pa. This is a lovely company to work for with a great product, beautiful offices, good benefits package and career progression opportunities.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.