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Travel Director

Employer
DCV Specialist Recruitment
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£40k-£50k
Closing date
17 Oct 2019

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Sector
Business Travel
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Job function
Management

Job Details

Our client is a Global Lifestyle, Travel and Event Agency who are currently seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Travel Director to join their quickly expanding travel division. This is an exciting opportunity to grow within a quickly expanding company, with excellent prospects for career and personal development.

As well as the London office, you will also be required from time to time to travel to the New York office.

You will support and manage the day to day running of the travel team. You will also be required to create reports, run sales training, coach the team and give feedback to the Global Direct or Travel Operations.

Assist with all aspects of corporate, leisure and event travel.

Responsibilities

  • Management of the London and New York Travel Teams
  • Manage the travel managers to ensure they hit targets, retain clients and grow the division
  • Background in management and growth of travel teams
  • Strong performance management skills
  • Assisting with the budgets, forecasting and financial reports
  • Supplier management an reconciliation
  • Booking corporate, event and VIP leisure travel
  • Have an above and beyond attitude
  • Be aware of client budgets and ensure cost effective solutions are provided
  • Curate itineraries, invoices and reports
  • Lead generation
  • Attend networking events
  • Work closely with the marketing team

Experience

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a similar travel-based role
  • Experience in team leadership and team management
  • Working knowledge of Galileo
  • Knowledge of systems such as duty of care, invoicing, financial and online booking tools
  • Knowledge of industry suppliers and hotels
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills
  • Ability to multitask
  • Able to maximise business opportunities
  • Quick learner
  • Ability to adapt to new and changing environments
  • Strong work ethic
  • Team player
  • Strong independent initiative

Company

DCV is a specialist recruitment agency providing Permanent, Contract & Interim staffing solutions throughout the UK and Worldwide.

Our many areas of expertise within Travel include:

Specialist Tailor-made Consultants

Business Travel Consultants

Sales Consultants

Administration & Operations Consultant

Ticketing Consultants

Product Managers

Commercial Managers

Marketing Managers

Account Managers

Business Development Managers

Finance Controllers

To name just a few of the travel backgrounds within the Travel Industry we deal with

Our Senior Consultants and Resource’s specialise in The Travel Industry with over 22 years’ experience by offering both candidates and clients an unrivalled recruitment service.

DCV Specialist Recruitment work in collaboration with its clients to provide a consultative service aligned to their business goals. This industry focused approach has enabled DCV to forge business partnerships with SME’s, Corporate & Blue Chip Travel Organisations across the globe.

DCV Specialist Recruitment has a targeted approach when sourcing candidates, enabling us to provide our clients with the most qualified and experienced candidates within the market place providing quality at all times.

Our candidate attraction strategy is be-spoke to each client to ensure that we resource Travel professionals from the background desired, coupled with the skills and experience to deliver results. These attraction methods include but are not exhaustive off:

  • Our Database
  • Traditional client specific Head Hunting
  • Niche Job boards
  • Social networking
  • Travel Industry specific publications
  • Referrals

The delivery of our service is harnessed by our Skilled Consultants and our Resource Team, all of whom have a wealth of experience within the Travel Industry sector.

Contact us

DCV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Biz Space

575-599 Maxted Road

Hemel Hempstead

HP2 7DX

Telephone number : 01442 270 711

 

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