Senior Sales and Reservations Consultant

Executive Placings; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Senior Sales and Reservations Consultant to work remotely in South Africa. This role involves end-to-end selling, booking, and consultation for luxury travel products. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of travel industry experience, outstanding destination knowledge, and is fluent in English. The position requires strong interpersonal skills and a stable work history. Candidates must also be able to provide their own internet connection.

Qualifications

• Experience in luxury travel market with at least 5 years as a Senior Sales Consultant.
• Proven record of high conversion rates and meeting targets.
• Stable work history with excellent references.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end selling, consultation, and booking of travel products.
• Serve as the primary contact point for clients.
• Execute all stages of the booking life cycle.

Skills

Strong destination knowledge of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia

Fluent English language skills

Significant travel industry experience

Ability to work with major accounts

Effective inter-departmental communication

Tools

Travel Studio

Wetu

Job description

Senior Sales and Reservations Consultant – Remote (South Africa).

Recruiting an experienced Senior Sales and Reservations Consultant for a Destination Management Company.

This is a remote position open to South based candidates.

This role will be responsible for the end-to-end selling, consultation and booking of all products. This will include product development, itinerary building, and customer service, based on minimum standards, company philosophies, operational systems, and standard operating policies.

The role requires the consultant to be the primary contact point for clients, as well as having a good understanding of new and existing products and itineraries.

Experience required:

• Strong destination knowledge of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia is a must.
• Strong destination knowledge of East Africa, Namibia, Mozambique & Malawi an added advantage.
• Significant travel industry experience within the luxury travel market.
• Previous Senior sales consultant experience essential, at least 5 years.
• Experience working in Travel Studio and Wetu preferable.
• Experience taking responsibility and dealing with major accounts.
• Experience in executing all stages of a booking life cycle, from quoting, invoicing, to supplier confirmation and chasing payment from clients and ensuring supplier payments get actioned from the Finance department.
• Experience dealing with groups and Tour series.
• Reporting experience.
• Fluent English language skills (written and verbal).

Requirements:

• High conversion rates & reaching targets.
• Quick turn-around times.
• Working effectively with other departments in the business, understanding the inter-departmental flows and dependency.
• Sharing duties on a 24-hour standby phone and working shifts.
• Friendly, flexible and a sense of humour!
• Excellent references from previous employers.
• Stable work history with good references is essential.

Extra information:

This position is a work from home (remote) position, that requires the candidate to provide their own reliable internet connection (at their own cost) and electricity supply, even during load shedding.