Travel Specialist for South America (French-speaking)

Join us at Ventura TRAVEL – a group of specialized travel brands that unleash the adventurer in every person! Today, joining our main Brand Viventura means joining a structured and financially solid player, socially committed to the V Social foundation. Our mission is to make travelers experience the true South America by offering amazing trips and unique experiences.

As our Travel Specialist, you'll be the first person to inspire our customers to travel to South America with Viventura. As an expert with a true passion for South America, you'll have the freedom to create and sell high-quality, authentic group trips to French-speaking clients, whereas we'll rely on you to manage smooth trip preparation and follow-up. You will provide excellent customer service to our French-speaking clients by email and over the phone.

You will report directly to our Brand Director and work in a growing international team surrounded by four exceptional, caring, and passionate individuals. We thrive in our diversity and rely on the perspectives and knowledge of people from all backgrounds.

On a daily basis, you will

• Design amazing trips that will delight your customers.
• Get the best deal for Viventura and our clients, negotiating the services and prices with the local service providers.
• Provide a unique sales experience by phone and email that will help us to reach your goals.
• Coordinate reservations with our flight department and local service providers.
• Put the traveler into focus and delight them with world-class customer service that addresses customer needs.

The basics that you bring along

• Your mother tongue is French and you have excellent written expression.
• Great passion for at least 2 countries in South America, with extensive travel experience in these countries.
• 2+ years experience in Sales and Customer service.
• Fluent oral and written knowledge of English.
• It's fun to be around you, and your future colleagues enjoy working with you.
• And last but not least: you bring a positive attitude and remain calm under stress.

You can impress us even more with

• Good knowledge of Spanish for partner communication is a big plus.
• Experience in the tourism industry, especially as a tour operator.
• Experience in negotiation.
• Software skills.

What we promise you

• Participation in the overall profit of all of our brands, such as all of our employees.
• Development of your ideas with lots of freedom while giving you the support you deserve – you deserve trust and not bureaucracy.
• Possibility to learn & grow with us – we believe in constant development.
• Open & transparent company culture with talks with the CEO and access to all the data you need.
• Option to work from our fun, central office in hip Berlin Kreuzkölln or anywhere in Europe or South America (full remote possible).
• Possibility to travel to another of our offices to work and personally meet other team members (i.e. we have offices in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia).
• Yearly 2-week offsite, if we achieve our goals (so far we went to South Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica & Egypt).
• Motivated and professional co-workers from all around the world, who want to grow just like you.

You are looking for a job you love and at the same time you come up to our requirements, are enthusiastic about the responsibilities for this position, and on top of that share our values? Then, we are looking forward to receiving your application in English.

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• First Name *
• Last Name *
• Email *
• Phone *
• Resume/CV * (PDF or txt)
• Cover Letter * (PDF or txt)
• Is French your native language? If not, we will not consider your application for this particular position. *
• In 2-3 sentences, what makes you think you are the right fit for this position? *
• To what regions of South America have you travelled? Please also let us know how much time you spent in each country. *
• From where would you like to work? *
• When could you start working? What is your termination period at your current job? *
• What is your monthly salary expectation (gross)? (EUR) *

Confidentiality & Diversity

Applications at Ventura TRAVEL are treated with strict confidentiality. We use a professional HR-Software which only grants access to your applications to HR, the Recruiting Manager, and the interviewers.

It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.