Travel Consultant

Travel Trade Recruitment Limited; West Bridgford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An independent Travel Agency south of Nottingham is looking for an experienced Travel Agent to join their team. You will engage customers, manage sales, and book holidays using various Tour Operators. The role offers a starting salary around £25k per annum, excellent commission potential, and a chance to be part of a growing agency. Flexibility for evening and weekend shifts is required.

Benefits

Competitive commission scheme

Annual profit share

Discounted personal travel

FAM trips

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 months experience in a travel agency.
• Strong customer service and sales skills required.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends is needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage and sell travel services alongside a team.
• Engage customers in-store to assist with bookings.
• Book holidays using various Tour Operators.
• Achieve sales targets and convert inquiries into bookings.
• Assist with local marketing events and administration.

Skills

Customer service skills

Sales ability

Experience in a travel agency

Knowledge of travel destinations

Job description

Opportunity for an experienced Travel Agent to join the second new Travel Branch of a growing independent Travel Agency just south of Nottingham city centre. With ambitious growth plans, they launched their first store in Birmingham and Nottingham is next! Want to be part of the success story?! A hugely experienced management team, with many years in the Travel Industry, has partnered with a supermarket chain to launch a modern travel agency. Based within the stores, it will combine the services of a traditional travel agency with state‑of‑the‑art technology to appeal to a wide audience. Customers who want to engage and chat with a Travel Consultant can, and those short on time can have a more virtual service! This is an amazing career opportunity at a point where Travel Agencies are seeing huge demand. Starting salary is circa £24k–£26k per annum (negotiable and dependent on experience) plus commission, incentives, profit share and FAM trips. Whether you have 12 months or 6 years of experience as a retail travel advisor, or are returning to the Travel Industry, get in touch!

Job description

• Work with a Manager, Assistant Manager and a team of three Consultants, being hands‑on both managing and selling
• Work pro‑actively; you and your team will need to engage with footfall from the supermarket
• Utilise the latest technology to gain people’s interest who are short on time, allowing them to leave their details for follow‑up
• Book UK, European and worldwide holidays using a range of Tour Operators
• Convert enquiries to bookings, working to targets and commission
• Work a rota of 5 days over 7 days, with flexibility to work some evening shifts as well
• Assist with any other company duties, such as local marketing events and administration

Experience required

We are interested in candidates with experience of working in a travel agency for 6 months and upwards. Salary will reflect your experience. If you are keen to return to the industry after a break, get in touch! If you are seeking 4 days a week, we require flexibility to cover weekends and some mid‑week shifts up to 7 pm on a rota basis.

The package

Starting salary is negotiable, but in the region of £25k per annum. This will come with excellent earnings potential through a competitive commission scheme, annual profit share, tour operator incentives, at least one FAM trip a year, heavily discounted personal travel. This is a real career opportunity, a chance to be part of a new, well‑backed Travel Agency with huge expansion plans! The flagship store is approximately 2 miles south of Nottingham city centre and is a fully on‑site role.

Interested?

Please follow the instructions to apply attaching your CV. This vacancy is being managed by Claire Muge. We have a variety of different opportunities, so do submit your CV to us. Unfortunately, if you are unsuccessful, due to the volume of applications, we are unable to reply to everyone individually.