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Business Travel Consultant

Gray Dawes Travel

United Kingdom

Remote

GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Part time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Gray Dawes Travel is seeking an experienced Business Travel Consultant for its Out of Hours team, focusing on providing high levels of customer service and support. This part-time remote role requires expertise in handling travel arrangements, customer inquiries, and the use of booking tools like Travelport and Sabre. The successful candidate will have a passion for travel and excellent communication skills, while enjoying benefits such as competitive annual leave and travel discounts.

Benefits

Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

Hybrid Working

Competitive Bonus Scheme

Group Life Cover

EAP Scheme

Volunteering days with our chosen company charity

Travel Discounts

Christmas Savings Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Qualifications

Motivated individual with previous experience in business travel.
Excellent telephone manner and verbal reasoning skills.
Great attention to detail.

Responsibilities

Handle enquiries and reservations professionally.
Provide research to get the best deals for clients.
Process travel tickets and handle refunds.

Skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Verbal reasoning

Education

BA1 or equivalent

Tools

Travelport

Sabre

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Gray Dawes Travel is a multi-award winning, global travel management company with offices in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia and the United States. Established in 1865, we’re constantly growing by using technology and our passion for what we do to keep evolving.

With a laser focus on offering our clients a high touch, high tech, high content experience, at Gray Dawes we’re not just there to deliver the best corporate travel fares, the most innovative itineraries, the slickest online tools or the most experienced consultants. We’re there as an extension of our clients’ own organisations – their out-of-house travel department. We achieve this because of the depths we go to in understanding our clients, their culture, their brand values and business objectives. And we always deliver… better!

If this all sounds like something you want to be a part of then we'd like to hear from you. We offer a fantastic work environment, with all the benefits and perks you’d expect from a forward-thinking and people-focussed organisation. And we’re always on the lookout for skilled and motivated individuals to become part of the Gray Dawes family.

Our people are at the heart of our business and we’re recruiting for an experienced Business Travel Consultant to join our Out of Hours team working on a remote basis. We’re ideally looking for the successful candidate to work 30 hours per week, working every other weekend (10 hour shift on both Saturday and Sunday plus 1 hour unpaid lunch) and 2 x evening shifts per week (5 hours shifts, 6pm - 11pm) and on the week when not working the weekend to work 5 x evening shifts per week (6 hours shift 6pm - midnight). This is an exciting time to join us as we’re rapidly expanding our global operations.

What You’ll Do

Providing high levels of customer service you’ll;

Handle enquiries and reservations ensuring that they are responded to professionally, arranging and confirming bookings and building traveller’s profiles to make sure that their needs are met
Carry out research for our clients to make sure they get the best deal
Process Travel tickets, reissues and documentation
Offer advice and guidance on available options to our clients for each itinerary including advice on visas, passport requirements and vaccinations
Handle refunds and cancellations
Help to train and support new staff as they join the team

What we’re looking for

You’ll be a motivated, passionate individual who has previous experience of working in business travel
Ideally, you’ll have experience using Travelport & Sabre
You’ll have an excellent telephone manner, excellent verbal reasoning skills and great attention to detail
You’ll have BA1 or equivalent

What We Can Offer

Our people are our heartbeats, driving everything that we do. We encourage our people to be their best selves, do the right thing, tell it like it is and be flexible. This opportunity will allow our new team members to be part of our journey as we expand in the global market. As we value our people, we offer a range of great benefits including;

Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid Working
Competitive Bonus Scheme
Group Life Cover
EAP Scheme
Volunteering days with our chosen company charity
Travel Discounts
Christmas Savings Scheme
Season Ticket Loans

Seniority level

Seniority level
Associate

Employment type

Employment type
Part-time

Job function

Job function
Customer Service
Industries
Travel Arrangements

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