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South America Specialist

Employer
Platinum Travel Recruitment
Location
Shaftesbury, Dorset, Sailsbury, Yeovil, Wiltshire
Salary
£30k-£33k + generous commission + benefits
Closing date
8 Jun 2019

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Sector
Tour Operator
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

We are seeking an experienced South America Sales Specialist to join a leading and forward thinking travel company due to remarkable growth. This tour operator offers exhilarating trips across the globe and with its pronominal reviews and excellent reputation, this is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and dynamic tour operator. If you are passionate about South America and travelled to the likes of the Galapagos, Ecuador and Peru and very sales driven this is the role for you.

Your career begins here, duties include:

  • Selling & creating tailor-made itineraries across South America and personalising them to fit within each individual client’s needs.
  • Booking a wide range of holiday types including tours, safari’s honeymoons, family holidays, trekking, adventure, walking & much more exciting products.
  • Assist with the marketing team to blogging and social media
  • Building the South America programme
  • Using your South America product knowledge and advise travellers.
  • Book and liaise with hotels, suppliers and airlines.
  • Booking tours, flights, airport lounges, accommodation plus many more travel extras.
  • Delight the customer from start to finish.
  • Offering a cutting edge customer service.
  • Account managing clients from start to finish.

Essential Requirements:

  • Must have good knowledge of South America
  • Sales driven – ability to convert enquiries into a sale and earn generous commission
  • Experience in selling & arranging trips to South America from a travel agent or tour operator
  • Some knowledge of Tanzania would be ideal but not essential
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills

Benefits:

  • Varied job role – sales & marketing
  • Very generous commission – double your salary!
  • Career progression
  • Sociable & flexible working hours
  • Opportunity to work from home a few days a week – not immediately, in the future
  • Pension
  • Travel perks
  • FAM trips – increase product knowledge
  • Opportunity to work for a forward thinking and dynamic tour operator, within a friendly team in state of the art offices in which you will be rewarded for your hard work.
  • Plus many more.

 

Please include a travel profile outlining all the places you have visited within South America. Give your travel career a boost and apply today!

Company

Our Story – Travel Recruitment Specialists

Platinum Travel Recruitment have become recognised specialists within the travel industry for many years. Our consultants possess a profound depth of knowledge of the travel industry having worked within travel, with an array of contacts throughout the UK and beyond. 

This is just one of the factors that allows us to provide a superior recruitment service. We ensure that our clients have access to the cream of the crop within the travel industry and candidates can enjoy exciting career-enhancing opportunities. The services that we provide to our clients and candidates show that we are not just recruiters; we are HR professionals, career advisors and experts in the travel industry.

Having two offices strategically placed in the Midlands and Surrey, close to London, this enables us to service a large geographical area and provide that face to face contact for both clients and job seekers.

Strategic in our thinking with a responsive approach to future needs, we think far beyond the conventional recruitment process by conducting a thorough analysis of both our candidates and clients.

Our experienced consultants manage the full recruitment process, screen and test each potential applicant matching the job specifications ensuring time is not wasted on unsuitable candidates. Our open, honest and committed approach will ensure that you reach your goals. So, let’s link up and chat what success means to you.

 

Why use Platinum Travel Recruitment?

Employers

Ability to supply professional pre-scanned travel candidates screened from consultants with years of experience in the travel industry.

Quality applicants rather then quantity.

We appreciate locating the right candidate can be a challenge. We save you time and money on locating candidates by short listing, database searching, head hunting and advertising the vacancies at no cost.

With our strong marketing prescience we are able to target the best applicants right from the outset.

Interviews are only organised for applicants clients wish to see free of charge. Once the candidate is placed a competitive fee will be charged with free trial periods for candidates starting with your organisation.

Many clients use us on an exclusive basis as we listen to requirements and offer the highest level of customer satisfaction whilst understanding your business needs.

If you are looking to expand your company or need recruitment advice feel free to call us on 0208 942 4103

Candidates

Assistance with the interview and application process

Our experienced and qualified consultants will listen to your requirements in locating the right role and progress your career

Able to provide free career advice on your next move

We have a range of roles including Reservations, Business Travel, Marketing, Product, Management plus more many more exciting opportunities to enhance your career.

Our service is free and kept strictly confidential.

Utilise your experience and achieve your goal – send us your CV today

Company info
Website
Telephone
07715365415
Location
Coombe Croft, Howell Hill Grove
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 3ER
GB

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