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Travel Consultant - Homeworker or Office Based

Employer
Red Planet Recruitment
Location
East London, Essex, England
Salary
£20,000 per annum + comm + excellent benefits OTE £30k
Closing date
1 Dec 2019

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Sector
Tour Operator
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Job function
Home Working

Job Details

Travel Consultant - Homeworker or Office Based.   This Homeworker / Office based Trade Sales Travel Consultant role focuses entirely on offering a high calibre service to our client’s preferred Travel Agents. The Trade Sales Travel Consultant position centres entirely on dealing with incoming calls from our client’s preferred UK Travel Agents, who are calling for destination and product information, along with advice and assistance in booking their customers tailor-made holidays the Tour Operator. GDS training will be provided to the successful Homeworker / Travel Consultant applicant.

The Company:
​With over 30 years of experience in serving the travel industry and having sent over 1 million holidaymakers on holiday, this successful tour operator is now expanding and is keen to recruit travel consultants to join their hugely successful travel organisation. This is a 100% service lead role, where you will simply take care of all the needs of the travel consultants / travel agents and their customers, ensuring the booking process runs smoothly from beginning to end.

Travel Consultant - Homeworker or Office Based Role:

  • The Trade Sales Department focuses entirely on offering destination and product information, along with creating, quoting and assisting our client’s preferred Travel Agents, enabling them to sell our client’s long-haul holidays to their direct customers
  • Ensure Travel Agents are happy with the holiday products along with information on availability dates, flight schedules, choice of hotels and resorts, special holiday offers along with any excursions and tours on offer

Skills & Experience:

  • You will be an experienced Homeworker / Travel Consultant from a Travel Agent or Tour Operator background
  • Candidates must have the ability to create high quality tailor made itineraries to meet Travel Agents needs
  • Strong problem solving skills and multitasking abilities
  • Confident and friendly telephone manner and the ability to work well within a thriving friendly team environment

Salary & Benefits:
If you are interested in this position, there is an exceptionally good package on offer.

  • The basic salary is £20,000 per annum guaranteed for the first 6 months  + commission, and rising with employment service
  • Our client’s generous uncapped commission structure can give you on target earning of £30,000 when switching to £16,000 basic + commission
  • Free lunch
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Workplace pension
  • Heavily discounted travel, holiday Concessions, Incentives and Team Nights Out
  • Long-haul Familiarisation Trips
  • 28 days paid holiday (including Bank holidays), increasing to up 33 days for long service
  • Ongoing training development, along with great career prospects
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Sounds like you?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Important, Please Note: It is unlawful to employ a person in a UK-based role who does not have permission to live and work in the UK. You should make yourself aware of how immigration laws apply to your situation prior to applying. 

Company

We are travel experts

No matter what your career goals, Red Planet has the expertise and the travel industry connections to help you maximise your potential in today's job market. 

We believe a job is more than just a means to pay the bills - it is a creative outlet for people to apply their skills and talents to something that’s bigger; something that is both challenging and rewarding. The right job will not leave you dreading Monday morning, but positively anticipating what new things the week will hold. If that is something you have yet to discover, then it’s time to call Red Planet! 

As specialists in travel recruitment, Red Planet offers candidates a service that is second to none. The services we provide to our candidates show that we are not just recruiters; we are career advisors and experts in the travel industry.

Red Planet prides itself on the fact that the recruitment team is managed by people who know the travel industry exceptionally well because they have also worked in this exciting and vibrant sector. This makes a big difference as they know what they are talking about.

We have merged the best services that a recruitment agency can offer in order to create an exclusive travel industry personnel and recruitment service, benefiting both our candidates and clients.

Consider us your travel industry connection

Contact us

Red Planet Travel Professionals
86-90 Paul Street
London, EC2A 4NE

Telephone: 020 3540 8981
Email: jobs@redplanetrecruitment.co.uk
Skype: redplanetrecruitment

www.redplanetrecruitment.co.uk

 

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