North America Sales Specialist Full Time

Travel Trade Recruitment

Do you want to work with one of the UK’s leading Tour Operators? Are you looking for your next Sales role in Travel? Then this might be the role for you!

We are looking for a North America Sales Advisor to join our client who is one of the UK’s leading Tour Operators, based in South West London. Their award-winning service means exceptional, once in a life-time experiences created and centres around each one of their customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• We are looking for experienced full-time passionate sellers with excellent knowledge North America
• The successful candidate will have a flair for selling and inspiring a dream in their customers.
• They must be willing to work hard, be a proven team player and very self-motivated with the experience of delivering their targets in a challenging travel industry.
• They will be experienced in handling customer requirements whilst still able to stay motivated to sell.
• You need to be organised and able to manage your own diary day to day, always putting your customer first.
• Able to learn quickly, use initiative and respond well to feedback
• To be inspired by the customer’s ideas for what they want from their holiday and to be able to translate that into an actual recommendation for a holiday
• To be passionate on every call about the brand and the product we sell
• To be able to build rapport on every call and see every call as an opportunity for you and your customer
• An understanding of selling principles and to be able to close the deal
• To be focused and driven to achieve targets
• To maintain a positive mind-set to overcome challenges and barriers to selling
• To fulfil admin duties aligned to the sales role

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Strong selling skills
• High achiever
• Strong customer service
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to persuade the customer to buy
• Pro-active and able to manage own workload effectively
• Able to communicate confidently and enthusiastically (both verbally and in writing)
• Agile and open to change at short notice
• Able to work well under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Strong numeracy
• Strong IT/Systems skills and experience, and experience of travel and GDS booking systems (preferably Galileo)
• Able to multitask
• Experienced seller of holidays
• Passionate about Canada & the US
• Experience in the contact centre environment required
• Excellent organisational skills
• An ability to cope with potentially conflicting demands

THE PACKAGE:

The salary for this position is £20,000 – £23,000. This can be a full-time home working, hybrid or office-based role, working hours are on a shift rota pattern between either Mon – Fri 09:00 – 17:30 or 10:00 – 18:30 and Sat 10:00 – 16:00 (1 sat in every 3).

Realistic earnings of £37,500K + (uncapped commission), in addition to excellent pension scheme, private health insurance, a superb staff travel programme (starting with up to 2 confirmed flight tickets after 1 year of service; unlimited stand-by flight tickets after 6 months service; heavy discounting on hotels, tours, cruises, all-inclusive packages etc.) and much more.

INTERESTED?

Please follow the instructions to apply, attaching your CV. For further questions please contact the team on or