Worldwide Travel Expert

Salary: From £20,500 (dependent on experience) plus excellent uncapped commission and bonuses.

Once trained earn on average £26,500 OTE!

Our Top Travel Experts earn in excess of £38,500 OTE!

Hybrid Working 3 days in the office and 2 days from home, after initial training period.

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to work for one of east of England's leading independent travel companies.

What are we looking for?

As a Worldwide Travel Expert, you will sell enticing adventures and relaxing escapes to our numerous holiday destinations, which include the Channel Islands, Far East, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Southern Africa, Indian Ocean, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Our Worldwide Travel Experts create tailor made holiday packages for travel agents and direct clients through incoming calls and email. You will start off specialising in specific destinations with your portfolio of areas expanding over time as more experience is gained. Our Experts are enthusiastic and motivated and enjoy working to achieve sales targets linked to excellent commission and bonus schemes.

What you’ll need:

Our business can’t be done without our people, we want them to be proud to work for Premier and consider them to be part of the Premier family. In this role, we are looking for passionate and motivated individuals with previous travel industry experience. Someone that loves helping customers and agents, working to sales targets, learning on the job in a fast-paced environment and is a real team player.

Our ideal candidate will be approachable, enthusiastic, and flexible to fit in with the rest of our team, you’ll also need to have these knowledge and skills:

• A passion for travel and the travel industry
• Previous Travel industry experience
• Professional, helpful and calm telephone manner
• Proactive nature
• Enjoy working to sales and profit targets
• Have excellent organizational skills, a keen eye for detail and be comfortable with multi-tasking
• Be able to remain calm when dealing with any problems or complaints
• Like working under your own initiative and as part of a team
• Personal travel experience is an advantage

What’s in it for you?

We are a friendly bunch, we listen to our staff, treat everyone fairly, celebrate long service and loyalty, are flexible, fun, and sociable to create the best environment we can for our employees to flourish. We offer:

• Competitive salary with uncapped commission and bonus scheme
• Work from home hybrid
• 29 Days Holiday Inclusive of Bank Holidays, increasing on length of service
• Overseas educational travel opportunities
• Discounts on Travel and Holidays
• Free on-site parking
• Standard Life Pension - 3% Employer Contribution, 5% Employee
• Social Events: Summer Party, Christmas Party, Quiz nights and other socials.
• Fresh Fruit in the offices

What are the hours for the role?

We are looking for someone who can work five days per week. You’ll need to be able to work Monday – Friday 9am – 5:30 pm and Saturday 9am – 5pm. We will guarantee 1 full weekend off per month.

Whilst you get to know your team and your job role, we’ll expect you to attend the office every day, following this initial period we offer the option to participate in a work from home hybrid.

A bit about Premier

At the Premier Travel Group (made up of Premier Holidays and Premier Travel) we believe that holidays bring people together, deliver new experiences and create wonderful memories that last a lifetime and we love to be a part of this!

We are an independently owned, family-run travel company that has proudly been operating locally for over 85 years. Over half of our team of 220 have been with the company for more than 10 years, which says a lot about our company ethos and experience in selling holidays.

Premier Travel Limited is the East of England’s leading independent travel agency with 25 branches across the East and Southeast of England, twelve of which are in the Cambridgeshire area. Our Travel Consultants pride themselves on their excellent travel knowledge, high levels of customer service and the personal touch that keeps our many loyal customers coming back to us again and again.

Premier Holidays Limited is the tour operation side of the business offering a wide range of holiday destinations, which include the Channel Islands, Far East, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Southern Africa, Indian Ocean, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We are well known within the travel industry as the market leader for Channel Islands holidays and as a long-haul specialist with a team possessing extensive experience in creating long haul, tailor-made multi-centre holidays. Our wide range of inspiring brochures can be found in most Travel Agencies across the UK and our knowledgeable staff are always on the end of a phone line to offer invaluable holiday advice and personal recommendations. We also have an office in Jersey and a direct client brand for the Channel Islands.

Our goal is to deliver exceptional holidays that our teams are proud of. We care about our customers’ holidays as though they were our own; we recognise it’s our business but their dream.

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The successful candidate will be offered a competitive salary alongside other benefits such as the opportunity to work partially from home, uncapped commission & bonuses, travel discounts, free on-site parking and numerous social events.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £20,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Commission pay
• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Norwich, NR6 5NZ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Sales: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Norwich, NR6 5NZ

Reference ID: PH104