Trade Support Administrator

Travel Trade Recruitment Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury travel company in Manchester seeks a Trade Support Administrator for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role entails providing support to the Trade Sales Team, building relationships with travel agents, and managing various administrative tasks to enhance trade bookings. The ideal candidate has travel industry experience, strong organisational skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. An attractive salary of £26,000 per annum is offered along with various benefits.

Qualifications

• Travel industry experience is required.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and booking systems.
• Self-motivated, results, and target-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Provide office support for Trade Sales Team.
• Build strong relationships with Travel Agents.
• Organise and coordinate national and virtual sessions.

Skills

Organisational skills

Time management

Initiative

Customer relationship management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Internal holiday booking systems

Job description

Do you have a background working in travel? Looking for a new challenge? Fancy something different? My client a leading luxury travel company based in Manchester City Centre, have a 12 month fixed term contract for the role of Trade Support Administrator. In this role you will work with the Trade Sales team, and directly with Travel Agents to help drive the trade bookings for the business.

The role in a nutshell

The role of Trade Support Executive provides support to the wider Trade sales team to drive trade bookings for the business through travel agents. The successful individual should be highly organised and able to manage their time and a busy workload effectively ensuring deadlines are met and accuracy is maintained at all times. Candidates applying should relish a challenge and have a flexible approach to work, embracing change to help shape the department. This is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Key Duties:
Provide office support for Trade Sales Team
Monitor incentives, organise prize distribution
Assist with telephone account management and booking system training where required
Build strong rapport and supportive relationships with Travel Agents
Support reservations to build the trade relationships
Order merchandise, account gifts and prizes as required
Brochure Management for bulk and file copies to agent partners Produce daily/weekly/monthly and ad-hoc sales figure reports
Produce weekly sales support collateral for Sales Managers
Marketing support such as sharing offers and images
Organising and coordinating national and virtual information sessions and events
Assisting with coordinating Travel Agent Fam Trips and ship visits
Collating and coordinating overseas conferences
Attending information sessions, cruise shows and Fam Trips as required sometimes involving overseas travel and nights away from home
Due to the nature of the role in a rapidly growing company, this role will change and adapt over time and the individual should be excited and adaptable for new challenges this will bring

Experienced Required:
The successful candidate will already have travel industry experience, ideally with good working knowledge of Microsoft office and internal holiday booking systems. You will be self-motivated with good initiative, as well as being results and target orientated. This is a rapidly growing role so an exciting time to join the team, and really put your stamp on this position.

The Package:
In return for your hard work, an excellent basic salary is offered in the region of 26k pa dependent on experience, along with various company benefits.

Interested?
If you are keen to be considered, please follow the instructions to apply, attaching your CV. For any questions, please contact Gemma on (phone number removed) (url removed) If this role is not quite right, but you have Travel Industry experience and are keen to find a new opportunity, please do send your CV, we may have something else that could be perfect for you! Know someone else who might be interested in Travel Industry opportunities? Please share our details!