Long Haul Travel Sales Executive - UK Wide

Succeed Recruitment; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic recruitment firm seeks a Long Haul Travel Sales Executive to join a growing homebased travel sales team. In this role, you will leverage your sales expertise and customer service skills to connect clients with their ideal holidays, handle sales calls, and work towards achieving sales targets. Experience within the travel sector is essential, particularly for long haul destinations, and flexibility with working hours is required. A competitive base salary of up to £30k, plus lucrative commission opportunities, and excellent industry benefits will be offered.

Qualifications

• Proven sales track record within the travel sector.
• Experience in selling long haul holidays.
• Strong communication and customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer needs through effective questioning.
• Overcome objections to close the sale.
• Deliver excellent customer service and offer expert advice on holiday destinations.

Skills

Sales skills

Customer service

Travel expertise

Time management

Flexibility

Job description

Joining our client's growing homebased travel sales team, you’ll be responsible for helping to make holiday dreams come true, dealing with warm leads, inbound calls, and online holiday orders.

You’ll use your excellent customer service skills, previous sales experience, and travel expertise to maximize opportunities by building rapport; matching the right holiday to your customer's needs, overcoming objections, and offering solutions to close the sale.

Successful candidates will have a proven sales track record within the travel sector, particularly in destinations such as the Maldives, Indian Ocean, Dubai, SE Asia, and the Caribbean.

Flexibility with regard to working hours is needed as some evening and weekend work will be involved. In return, our client offers a competitive salary of up to £30k plus up to £50k OTE & excellent industry benefits.

If this role interests you, please apply online.

Please note – this is a full-time position over 4 days.

Role of Long Haul Travel Sales Executive:

• Identify customer needs through effective questioning
• Overcome objections to close the sale
• Deliver excellent customer service
• Offer expert advice and personal recommendations on holiday destinations
• Work towards and achieve sales targets
• Processing customer payments
• Maintain a high level of customer service and build a repeat customer base

Skills required for the role:

• Strong sales skills and a proven sales track record within the travel sector – essential
• Experience in selling long haul holidays – essential
• Experience in packaging multiple products together
• Confident, professional telephone manner
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced sales environment
• Excellent time management skills to handle calls and leads
• Flexible approach to working hours

If you're interested in this Long Haul Travel Sales Executive role, please apply online now!