Travel Consultant / Sales Executive

Travel Consultant / Sales Executive 

Gold Medal Travel Group is an award-winning travel company that has been sending people on fantastic holidays for over 40 years across the Gold Medal Travel, [1] and Pure Luxury brands. They offer thousands of air fares, a choice of over 40,000 hotels, in fantastic locations and car hire options with more than 8,500 pick-up locations.

Position: Travel Sales Consultant 
Location: Preston, Lancashire 
Job type: Full time 
Hours: Full time; 40 hours per week (5 days over 7, between 8am and 10pm.) 
Salary: £26,000 per yearbasic + uncapped commission OTE £16,723.2 in the first year 
Benefits: Contributory pension scheme, life assurance, travel benefits, familiarisation trips and social events, on-site free parking, on-site bistro, child care voucher scheme, employee assistance scheme 

ROLE: 
The Travel Sales Consultant / Sales Executive will exceed all customer expectations and maximise sales to enhance a customer`s travel experience. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 
a) Answering sales calls in a professional and timely manner; delivering outstanding customer service on every call. 
b) Maximising all sales opportunities i.e. accommodation, sightseeing tours, insurance, car/campervan rental, transfers. 
c) Delivering required conversions over each trading period. 
d) Feeding back on pricing issues and barriers to sales 
e) Minimising losses and errors 
f) Always going the extra mile for every customer. 
g) Following up on customer enquiries and queries 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE: 
a) Previous sales experience is essential ideally in a contact centre and/or target driven environment 
b) Previous experience working in a customer driven environment. 
c) Computer literate; knowledge of Microsoft Office products 
d) Excellent communication and negotiation skills. 
e) Self-motivated, customer focussed, numerate, positive attitude. 

DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE: 
a) To have a passion for travel, 
b) Have travelled outside of Europe. 
c) Previous travel industry experience 

You may have experience of the following: Sales Consultant, Contact Centre, Call Centre Agent, Sales Executive, Travel Agent, Contact Centre Consultant, Customer Service Agent, Airline Reservations, Telesales, Inside Sales, Lead Generation etc. 

This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK`s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.

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