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SalaryJoin one of the fastest growing Travel Cruise sales companies in the UK today. Our award-winning team is expanding due to our phenomenal growth!
You are all about Cruise; you're passionate, driven, and are classed as a Cruise Travel expert.
You'll have sold Cruise to customers, answered questions and know just what it takes to make a joyous Cruise sale.
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 is growing even more in the UK in 2023 & 2024 before launching internationally?
Role Info:
Business Development Manager (Business Development Coach / Cruise Sales)
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, Cruise 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:
Business Development Manager: Cruise; helping our homeworkers increase their Cruise sales.
About You:
Your number one passion is Cruise; you live and breathe all things Cruise. You're excited to share your vast, broad Cruise knowledge with others; to educate, to guide, to advise and to coach others to be Cruise masters just like yourself.
You'll be an experienced Cruise sales person, not with just one product but across a range of brands/operators. We work with a multitude of Cruise suppliers so we need to replicate that with the person we hire, having the ability to represent all our suppliers, the USPs, the similarities and the differences; ultimately helping our homeworkers identify & sell the perfect cruise for their customer, delighting them with their Cruise experience.
You'll be experienced in generating Cruise leads and converting into sales; you'll be able to teach others in the ways that work, and maintain a creative list of new ways of working to continually develop and grow the Cruise part of their business.
You'll need to establish and maintain long standing relationships with our homeworkers, trade partners, suppliers and internally.
Experience you need to succeed in this role:
+ Experience in working across the Cruise industry selling a variety of cruise products to customers, across multiple brands/operators
+ Expertise demonstrated in engaging and training others to sell cruise products for example travel agents
+ Experience of working with homeworkers would be ideal
+ Passionate & able to build long standing relationships with TCs and colleagues; able to listen and turn ideas into plans
+ Achieve results through others, who do not directly report into you and are independent business owners, in charge of their own destiny
+ Confident & effective in training individuals and groups
+ Full UK drivers' licence
+ Ability to be successful in an agile environment, to be flexible in style and approach; to pivot easily when required.
+ To live, breathe and demonstrate our values: Do the Right Thing; Success Driven;
+ Honesty, Trust & Mutual Respect; Loyalty & Appreciation, Enjoy the Journey.
+ To do it all with the biggest smile and positive approach!
The Reward for You:
We live and breathe our values - Do the Right Thing; Loyalty & Appreciation; Mutual Respect, Trust & Honesty; Success Driven & Enjoy the Journey - in everything we do.
Our employee benefits are just one example of how we've done this. Working with us, you can enjoy industry leading package which includes:
+ 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays as a minimum (for full time employees)
+ 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.
+ Perkbox - giving you access to meditation, wellbeing, sleep & exercise classes.
+ 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
+ Regular team and companywide connects - either virtually or physically
+ 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, Sales Team Leader, Home Worker Sales Coaching, Sales, Business Development, Cruise Sales
