Africa Travel Designer. Luxury Private Travel Company are looking for a candidate, with a great love and an extensive knowledge of Africa, to join their friendly team of travel enthusiasts. You will be empathetic and inquisitive, and will harness these qualities to form a deep understanding of your customers; enabling you to craft highly personalised holidays in Africa.
Candidate Requirements:
- Deep passion for Africa and extensive knowledge obtained from personal travels to the continent
- You value positive-impact, responsible, sustainable travel
- Embrace diversity and eagerness to be part of a close supportive team of colleagues, including business partners
- Good listener and empathetic communicator, in relation to colleagues and customers)
- Open-minded and keen to learn
- Thrives solving problems and maintains calm under pressure
- Motivated and driven
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The role:
- Guest communication via video call, email and telephone; cultivating relationships and achieving a deep understanding and rapport with the client
- Curation of bespoke travel itineraries which aim to immerse the client in the destination while following responsible travel practices
- Competently close sales and manage pipeline, working effectively with the CRM and company systems and best practices
- Deal with any operational situations in collaboration with wider team and external partners at the destinations.
- Assist the marketing team with the production of editorial content
- Build long-lasting, caring relationships with suppliers on the ground at the destinations
- Source exciting new travel product
- Travel even more in Africa! And then return and educate your colleagues on the destinations you visited!
Basic Salary : £27,300 plus generous commission structure of £50,000 - £90,000 (first 6 months includes a commission top-up to ensure you earn minimum £38,000 p.a while you're mastering the role)
Working Hours : Monday - Friday. 10am - 6pm. 3 days in the office 2 from home. London.
Benefits Include :
- Flexible working
- Mental Well-being Support
- Learning and Development
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Work bank holidays and take other days off instead in order to embrace everyone's beliefs, culture and identity
- Lots of organised socials events
- Dress however you feel most comfortable
- Dog-friendly office
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