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Want to make a difference and feel hugely appreciated?
Right now, we are looking for a highly talented Business Development Manager with a difference as this opportunity is more than just a job. This is a career with lots of progression and potential.
Ready to join a multi-award-winning travel business brand that has grown 4000% in the last 10 years since shaking up the industry in 2011, and who has grown even more in the UK in 2023 before launching internationally?
Role Info:
Business Development Manager / Sales Coach / Facilitator
Home Based / Periodic Meetings Around the UK
Top of Market Salary
Plus pension, discounted travel, opportunity to visit some fantastic locations and much more
Values: Do the Right Thing, Loyalty & Appreciation, Mutual Respect, Trust & Honesty, Success Driven, Enjoy the Journey
Product / Service: Award-Winning travel home-working company
Growth: Over 400% in the last 5 years. Breaking sales records every month.
Your Skills: Travel Agency Sales, Sales Management, Team Leadership / Support, Excellent Relationship Building Skills
Who:
A multi-award-winning fast-growing travel company that has helped 100’s of first-time travel homeworkers start their very own travel businesses. We’re expanding rapidly and looking to grow the very best team ahead of the next peak period in travel.
Reasons to join us:
+ Home Working Agency of The Year’ 5 years in a row
+ Top-rated travel franchise in the UK
+ Top 10 franchise in the UK, beating household names
+ Top 5% franchise in the UK
+ We offer the widest choice of holidays in the UK
+ Fully independent with over £2 billion per year of buying power
+ We are expecting the next 2-3 years in travel to be the biggest ever in terms of growth
+ Featured continually in the trade press, national press
The Role:
We are no ordinary travel business as we are changing lives every single day.
You’ll be leading and supporting a team of highly motivated self-employed travel homeworkers. Your role is to help them increase their profits through:
+ Finding more enquiries
+ Converting more enquiries to sales
+ Increasing average booking values
+ Increasing profit per booking
+ Increasing repeat booking rate
You’ll need the skills and experience to make a difference in these 5 areas. This will require planning, teaching, demonstrating, and following up with your team on a regular basis and finding ways to engage, motivate, inspire and communicate with your team.
For us, there is nothing more important than helping our team increase their sales and customer retention. You need to know how to help individuals increase their sales, find more business and maximise the enjoyment of this amazing industry.
Here is where we see you need the experience to kick ass at this role:
+ Experience in working within travel agency sales and as a sales manager or similar BDM role
+ Experience in achieving sales targets
+ Experience of coaching in business, life, social situations
+ Good knowledge of travel industry products including flights, packages and cruise products
+ Confident & effective using video as a means of communication
+ Confident & effective using social media to influence
+ Must have a good ability to communicate fluently and positively in written form
+ Confident & effective in training individuals and groups
+ Knowing how to follow up with team members to get results
+ Strong knowledge of sales within the travel sector to be able to lead by example
+ Be confident in basic social media techniques
+ Know how to create strategies to help others achieve their targets
The Reward for You:
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing travel and franchise companies, the opportunities for you to grow your role and responsibilities are endless. We live and breathe our values and our employee benefits are just one example of this:
+ 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays as a minimum
+ Up to 30 days holiday available through long service and/or purchased holidays
+ 1 day off to celebrate your birthday
+ Discounted holidays
+ Private Medical Insurance including 24/7 access to online GPs
+ Dental cash back
+ Optician cash back
+ Gym discounts
+ Travel insurance
+ Employee Assistance Programmes for you and your loved ones
+ Life insurance
+ Pension contributions
+ Perkbox – giving you discounts on a huge variety of everyday items
+ Individually tailored training and development support program
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Home based roles (largely); or based in our super modern head office at Bournemouth Airport
+ Travel within the UK or abroad as part of our ongoing educational trips/team get togethers
Sounds like a good fit? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Leadership Team.
Your Background / Previous Roles May Include:
Sales Manager, Head of Business Development, Development Manager, Sales Development, Travel, Head of Sales Coaching, Sales, Business Development.
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If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.
