Are you ready to set yourself up for success in 2024 and beyond?
Want to make a difference?
Want to be a part of the fastest-growing travel business in the UK?
Want more than just a job?
If so, we're ready for you…
Get ready to join a multi-award-winning travel business brand that has grown 4000% in the last 10 years since shaking up the industry in 2011, and who is growing even more in the UK in 2023 before launching internationally?
We are no ordinary travel business as we are changing lives every single day. You'll be helping entrepreneurs find customers, choose the perfect holidays for their clients, help increase conversion and sell more holidays.
This is not a standard Travel Sales or BDM role. You will use your wealth of travel knowledge (land & water) and sales skills to coach our franchise owners - helping them to: increase their sales, use social media effectively and provide supportive strategic business coaching rather than selling travel directly.
Role Info:
Travel Sales Coach - Helping our travel homeworkers increase their sales
Home Based with periodic visits to meetings around the UK
Competitive Market Salary Plus Bonus Structure
Plus Humongous Benefits Package inc pension, discounted travel, opportunity to visit some fantastic locations
Values: Do the Right Thing, Loyalty & Appreciation, Mutual Respect, Trust & Honesty, Success Driven, Enjoy the Journey
Product / Service: Award-Winning travel home-working company
Growth: Over 400% in the last 5 years. Record sales in January 2022 despite a pandemic
Your Skills: Travel Sales coaching, Business Development, Smashing Sales Targets, Social Media Techniques, Collaboration.
Who:
A multi-award-winning fast-growing travel company that has helped 100's of first-time travel homeworkers start their very own travel businesses. We're expanding rapidly and looking to grow the very best team ahead of the next peak period in travel.
Reasons to join us:
+ Home Working Agency of The Year' 5 years in a row
+ Top-rated travel franchise in the UK
+ Top 10 franchise in the UK, beating household names
+ Top 5% franchise in the UK
+ We offer the widest choice of holidays in the UK
+ Fully independent with over £2 billion per year of buying power
+ We are expecting the next 2-3 years in travel to be the biggest ever in terms of growth
+ Featured continually in the trade press, national press
The Travel Sales Coach Role:
You'll be leading and supporting a team of highly motivated self-employed travel homeworkers. Your role is to help them increase their profits through:
+ Finding more enquiries
+ Converting more enquiries to sales
+ Increasing average booking values
+ Increasing profit per booking
+ Increasing repeat booking rates
You'll need the skills and experience to make a difference in these 5 areas. This will require planning, teaching, demonstrating, and following up with your team on a regular basis and finding creative ways to engage, motivate, inspire and communicate with your team.
About You:
Your number one skill should be coaching. Secondly be confident about travel.
For us, there is nothing more important than helping our team increase their sales and customer retention. You need to know how to help individuals increase their sales, find more business and maximise the enjoyment of this amazing industry.
You'll be a gifted influencer who knows how to get the best out of people. You'll need to be a part salesperson, part trainer, part marketer, and part coach.
Here is where we see you need the experience to kick ass at this role:
+ Experience in working within travel agency sales and as a sales manager or similar BDM role
+ Experience in achieving sales targets
+ Good knowledge of travel industry products including flights, packages and cruise products
+ Confident & effective using video as a means of communication
+ Confident & effective using social media to influence
+ Must have a good ability to communicate fluently and positively in written form
+ Confident & effective in training individuals and groups
+ Knowing how to follow up with team members to get results
+ Strong knowledge of sales within the travel sector to be able to lead by example
+ Be confident in basic social media techniques
+ Know how to create strategies to help others achieve their targets
The Reward for You:
As one of the UK's fastest-growing travel and franchise companies, the opportunities for you to grow your role and responsibilities are endless. We live a breathe our values and our employee benefits are just one example of this:
+ 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays as a minimum
+ Up to 30 days holiday available through long service and/or purchased holidays
+ 1 day off to celebrate your birthday
+ Discounted holidays
+ Private Medical Insurance including 24/7 access to online GPs
+ Dental cash back
+ Optician cash back
+ Gym discounts
+ Travel insurance
+ Employee Assistance Programmes for you and your loved ones
+ Life insurance
+ Pension contributions
+ Perkbox - giving you discounts on a huge variety of everyday items
+ Individually tailored training and development support program
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Travel within the UK or abroad as part of our ongoing educational trips/team get togethers
Sounds like a good fit? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Leadership Team.
Your Background / Previous Roles May Include:
Travel Business Development Manager, BDM, Business Development Executive, BDE, Travel Sales Training, Travel New Business Development, Travel & Tourism Sales, Sales Enablement, Sales Facilitation, Travel Sales Coaching, Travel Sales Manager, Sales Performance.
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