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This leading specialist travel company is passionate about providing meaningful, inspiring and educational trips to a wide range of destinations, carefully designed by experts with first hand product knowledge. They now have a vacancy for a School Travel Specialist (Account Manager) to manage a portfolio of schools to handle inbound enquiries and manage each trip from initial contact through to confirmation, delivering exceptional service and building long term relationships throughout. Salary £27k to £30k with uncapped commission (OTE £15k), hybrid working.
Job Responsibility
Deal with inbound enquiries and manage reservations via phone, email and occasionally in person, providing expert destination advice and converting enquiries into confirmed bookings
Build strong relationships with teachers and group leaders, ensuring each school receives an exceptional experience and that trips maximise learning outside the classroom
Produce tailored trip proposals that meet curriculum needs, school priorities and commercial guidelines
Deliver destination or product presentations to schools, either in person or virtually, occasionally outside normal working hours
Provide cover on the emergency phone rota
Work collaboratively with internal colleagues to ensure workflow and service standards are consistently exceeded
Requirements
Proven sales experience within school / educational / student travel
Strong sales, influencing and objection handling skills with the ability to work within margin guidelines
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload and manage multiple trips simultaneously
High level of accuracy, attention to detail and strong numerical ability
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to adapt tone and style to different audiences
Strong customer service focus with the ability to build longstanding relationships
Confident user of CRM/reservation systems and Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
A clean driving licence for school visits
Must be suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults
DBS check required
What we offer
discounted travel
health cash plan
subsidised gym membership
wellbeing initiatives
social events
birthday day off
increasing holiday allowance
opportunities to travel to experience trips first hand