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Travel Consultants: love the Travel Industry but want something different with great earnings potential? A new career in travel recruitment awaits you, with amazing earnings potential! Fantastic opportunity to work for one of the UK's leading Travel Industry Recruitment Specialists. Travel Trade Recruitment is an independent, successful recruitment consultancy with a strong reputation for providing a first-class recruitment service to clients and job seekers, working in all areas of the travel industry. Established since 2001 we have offices in London, Stockport & Sydney!
We are looking for a travel industry professional who is seeking a career with lots of variety, great opportunities to progress and fantastic financial rewards. We are looking to grow our team, based in offices in Stockport. Due to continued demand for recruitment within the Travel Industry, we are keen to recruit an ambitious travel sales professional who possess lots of drive and determination and who enjoy the satisfaction of account management plus the rewards of business development.
The ideal candidates will be bright, articulate, computer literate and have a minimum of 2 years work experience within any sector of the travel industry, preferably within a sales' orientated role, such as a Travel Consultant within a retail travel agency, tour operator or similar.
The Role.
- Gaining a strong commercial awareness of the local travel industry job market
- Identifying new clients using a variety of business development channels.
- Building rapport with new and existing travel industry clients
- Negotiating rates and terms with new and existing clients
- Utilising your travel industry knowledge to identify candidates for your clients' roles.
- Screening candidate applications and providing career advice.
- Presenting CVs to clients and providing further profile information.
- Arranging interviews between the candidate and client
- Facilitating offers of employment to candidates on behalf of the client.
What we offer you.
- A new career utilising your travel industry knowledge where no two days are the same.
- A warm desk with lots of existing clients and a variety of roles to work on.
- A generous basic salary to start dependent on experience your previous experience within the Travel Industry
- Uncapped personal monthly commission
- Fantastic personal quarterly incentives and bonuses
- Personal annual bonus in time for Christmas.
- Team incentives and nights out.
- Extra annual leave each year - 20 days (plus bank holidays), rising to 24 days
- Access to pension with employer and employee contributions (optional)
- Realistic first year earnings of circa 35k pa, increasing in your second year to in excess of 40k pa. Our experienced Consultants regularly exceed 50k pa and their success is apparent in longevity of their careers with us.
- Option to work Fridays from home after training is complete (approximately 5 weeks) and 4 emergency work from home days per year
- No evenings or weekends. Working hours are: Mon (Apply online only) (an hour for lunch), Tues, Weds, Thurs, (Apply online only), Fri (Apply online only)
Interested?
Please follow the instructions to apply attaching your CV! All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. This vacancy is being managed by Gemma Thelwell, Office Manager, and I can be contacted on (phone number removed). (url removed)
