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Sales Executive - Southampton Airport

Recruitment Avenue
Posted a day ago, valid for 4 days
Location

Southampton, Hampshire SO18 2XX, England

Salary

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Life Insurance

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  • The position involves handling car hire for passengers arriving at Southampton Airport for leisure or business purposes, with a focus on warm leads. As a Sales Executive, responsibilities include selling and upselling car rentals, luxury upgrades, and optional extras like Sat Navs and child seats. The role offers a salary of £12.35 per hour with an on-target earnings (OTE) potential of £32,000. Candidates are required to have sales experience, excellent communication skills, and a full, valid clean driving license, with flexibility in working hours. Benefits include career progression, uncapped commission, generous holiday allowance, and various discounts and support services.

You will deal with car hire for passengers that have just flown into Southampton Airport for a holiday or business travel.

All the leads are warm as they need the car to get out the airport, its a great opportunity to make commission.

As a Sales Executive you will be responsible for selling and upselling car rental, you will sell car hire to very warm leads then upgrade the car to luxury cars and offer upgraded insurance.

Also you will offer optional extras like Sat Navs, child and baby seats if needed.

Salary: £12.35ph basic with a £32k OTE

Responsibilities:

  • Be a welcoming face at the airport desk
  • Upsell and offer additional products to the car rental booking
  • Achieve sales targets
  • Manage the documents related to the booking of vehicles
  • Carry out administrative tasks related to the rental of vehicles
  • Activate the adequate procedure in case of damage detection and managing the objects left behind.

Key Skills/Experience Needed:

  • A full, valid clean driving licence
  • Sales experience
  • Excellent communication and face to face sales skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
  • Flexibility in your working hours, including availability during the day, evenings and weekends - our locations can offer you a wide variety of shifts.

Benefits:

  • Career progression and development
  • Exceptional commission scheme - uncapped bonus potential with on target earnings at £32K plus
  • Starting on 6 weeks holiday (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
  • Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave (subject to service and earning qualifications)
  • Free on site car parking
  • Pension and a life insurance scheme
  • Discounted car hire rates across our network
  • 20% discount on EE mobile phone contracts*
  • Discounted hotel rates through the Accor Group after 12 months service*
  • Cycle2Work*
  • Free annual eye tests
  • Confidential legal and support service through BUPA

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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.