Inbound Sales Travel Expert-Short Haul

Job Title: Short-haul Inbound Sales Travel Expert (Channel Islands, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Shetland, and Orkney)

Reports To: Travel Expert Manager

Based: Hybrid Working 3 Days At Cambourne and 2 From home, after initial training period

Salary: From £20,500 (dependent on experience) plus excellent uncapped commission and bonuses.

Once trained earn on average £26,500 OTE!

Our Top Inbound Sales Travel Experts earn in excess of £38,500 OTE!

What’s in it for you?

We are a friendly bunch, we listen to our staff, treat everyone fairly, celebrate long service and loyalty, are flexible, fun, and sociable to create the best environment we can for our employees to flourish. We offer:

• Competitive salary with uncapped commission and bonus scheme
• Work-from-home hybrid
• 29 Days Holiday Inclusive of Bank Holidays, increasing on length of service
• Overseas educational travel opportunities
• Discounts on Travel and Holidays
• Free on-site parking
• Social Events: Summer Party, Christmas Party, Quiz nights and other socials.

What are we looking for?

As an Inbound Sales Short-haul Travel Expert, you will sell enticing adventures and relaxing escapes to our short-haul holiday destinations, which include the Channel Islands, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Shetland, and Orkney.

Our Inbound Sales Travel Experts create tailor-made holiday packages for travel agents and direct clients through incoming calls and emails. Our Experts are enthusiastic, motivated and enjoy working to achieve sales targets linked to excellent commission and bonus schemes.

What you’ll need:

Ideally you will have experience working in a target-based sales role, otherwise you will have a drive to succeed in sales with proven persuasive, influencing skills and a result orientated nature.

Our ideal candidate will be approachable, enthusiastic, and flexible to fit in with the rest of our team, you’ll also need to have these knowledge and skills:

• A passion for travel and the travel industry
• Previous Sales experience
• Professional, helpful and calm telephone manner
• Proactive nature
• Enjoy working to sales and profit targets
• Have excellent organisational skills, a keen eye for detail and be comfortable with multi-tasking
• Be able to remain calm when dealing with any problems or complaints
• Like working under your own initiative and as part of a team
• Personal travel experience is an advantage

What are the hours for the role?

We are looking for someone who can work five days per week. You’ll need to be able to work Monday – Friday 9am – 5:30 pm and Saturday 9am – 5pm. We will guarantee 1 full weekend off per month.

Whilst you get to know your team and your job role, we'll expect you to attend the office every day, following this initial period, we offer the option to participate in a work-from-home hybrid.

The Premier Travel Group (made up of Premier Holidays and Premier Travel) are an independently owned, family-run travel company that has proudly been operating locally for over 85 years. Over half of our team of approximately 200 have been with the company for more than 10 years, which says a lot about our company ethos and experience in selling holidays.

Premier Travel is the East of England’s leading independent travel agency with 25 branches across the East and Southeast of England, twelve of which are in the Cambridgeshire area. Our Travel Consultants pride themselves on their excellent travel knowledge, high levels of customer service and the personal touch that keeps our many loyal customers coming back to us again and again.

Premier Holidays is the tour operation side of the business offering a wide range of holiday destinations, which include the Channel Islands, Far East, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Southern Africa, Indian Ocean, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. We are well known within the travel industry as the market leader for Channel Islands holidays and as a long-haul specialist with a team possessing extensive experience in creating long-haul, tailor-made multi-centre holidays. Our wide range of inspiring brochures can be found in most Travel Agencies across the UK and our knowledgeable staff are always on the end of a phone line to offer invaluable holiday advice and personal recommendations.

Our goal is to deliver exceptional holidays that our teams are proud of. We care about our customers’ holidays as though they were our own; we recognise it’s our business but their dream.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £20,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Norwich: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Direct sales: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Norwich

Reference ID: SH/TE-Jersey