Company Description
SUNSET Faraway Holidays is the tour-operating division of Sunset Travel Ltd founded in 1980 and one of the oldest privately owned long-haul holiday specialists in the UK. The company's worldwide portfolio reflects their success in uniting quality, value, and choice. The company focuses on offering personalized itineraries tailored to travel needs and hand-picked quality resorts and hotels to ensure dependability and value. SUNSET provides a well-informed advisory service backed by knowledgeable personnel and carefully selected in-resort representative companies.
Role Description
North of England – Work from home
Tour Operator
Part Time (3 day per week including Travel)
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join a growing trade team as a Part - time trade representative in the North of England. You will be responsible for growing industry sales by building new relationships and maintaining existing ones with there top performing agents by offering consistent training and support as well as communicating to the travel trade to educate them on new products and services, delivering marketing material and identifying new business opportunities.
We are looking for a passionate and ambitious person, someone who loves travel extensive training will be given.
Qualifications
⦁ Maximise and grow agency sales in the travel industry in the UK
⦁ Develop and maintain strong relationships with our travel agent partners to help make agents.
⦁ Creating and updating training presentations to a high standard.
⦁ Provide excellent training sessions to trade partners with enthusiasm and passion including regular sales visits in person, as well as leading webinars
⦁ Provide consistent communication with agency partners to communicate news, product updates, incentives and training
⦁ Manage your own day-to-day schedule with help and guidance as required
⦁ Attending and hosting (if applicable) travel trade, consumer and conference events. This requires regular evening and occasional weekend work
⦁ Incorporating booking incentives into training presentations, and coordinating the issuing of prizes alongside the Commercial Director
⦁ Creating fam trips and hosting selected Fam trips
⦁ Updating social media channels with any trade activity on a regular basis
⦁ Collecting travel agent contact information during sales calls, and update the database accordingly
⦁ Respond quickly and efficiently to travel agent queries and assist with any requests and support they need
⦁ Help manage sales budgets alongside head of trade sales
⦁ Monthly reporting on agent call and visit activity