Ski Specialist - Travel Sales Consultant

The Company

Blue Skies Lifestyle Ltd is a family-run, online luxury travel agency encompassing 4 brands. Ski In Luxury is our largest brand and renowned for being the best luxury ski chalet agency worldwide. Our other brands are ‘Ultimate Luxury Chalets’, a collection of the top 100 luxury rental chalets across Europe, 'Alps In Luxury' featuring summer rental chalets in the Alps, and 'Villas In Luxury', our summer villa holiday portfolio. Our incredible team all share a passion for the mountains and luxury travel. Whether we're delivering first-class service to clients, developing our portfolio, writing about our favourite resorts or experiencing the properties ourselves, the variety in the role ensures no day is the same!

The Role

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic salesperson to become one of our hard-working, knowledgeable, Ski Specialists! If you want to take on a role that combines your passion for skiing and your sales skills, and do what you love, then apply today!

Key Responsibilities

A Ski Specialist is responsible for, but is not limited to:

• Using your ski resort and product knowledge to guide our clients on their holiday search, advising the best ski chalets and hotels and products to fit their brief.
• Handling new inbound sales enquiries via email and telephone from clients seeking luxury ski holidays in a professional yet friendly, timely and efficient manner.
• Client account management; following up with outbound calls and emails to your clients, both prior to and post holidays. Build client relations and retention with a commitment to go the extra mile and exceed expectations.
• Achieve and exceed sales performance targets and KPI’s, working towards both team and individual targets.
• Keeping in touch with product and industry developments, gaining an expert knowledge of ski resorts, luxury chalets, hotels and travel options.
• Creative writing of regular blog posts; producing exciting, unique and interesting reading material to increase website traffic and enhance company brands.
• Maintaining good relationships with chalet owners and operators and keeping up to speed with all property developments and changes to the company website portfolios.
• Whilst you will be primarily dealing with winter ski holiday enquiries, you will also deal with requests relating to our summer in the mountains brand, Alps In Luxury, as well as the occasional enquiry through our brand, Villas In Luxury.

The Benefits

Some of the benefits of being a Ski Specialist - Travel Consultant are:

• The opportunity to stay at and experience some of the most luxurious ski chalets in the world!
• Regular FAM trips.
• Career progression.
• Sales team reward scheme with monthly performer bonuses and additional sales incentives.
• Company pension scheme.
• Working in a home from home office environment.

The Perfect Candidate

The key skills and qualities of a Ski Specialist:

• Must be a skier or snowboarder and have a good understanding of ski holidays.
• A love and passion for high end luxury travel.
• A proven track record of reaching and exceeding targets in a sales environment, confident in “closing” a deal.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• An exceptional telephone manner and confidence in making outbound and taking inbound calls.
• Strong IT skills, with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
• A strong and dedicated work ethic.
• A proactive, reliable and punctual team player who is ready to hit the ground running.
• French language fluency would be advantageous but not essential. Other desirable language skills in Spanish, Italian and German.

If you are keen on joining this exciting, forward thinking company and taking the next step in your travel career, then please apply now by sending us your CV and a cover letter giving us some comprehensive detail on your personal ski experiences and explaining why you feel you are the perfect fit for the role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £24,000.00-£35,000.00 per year OTE - basic salary plus bonus scheme

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme.
• Performance bonus.
• Quarterly bonus.

Benefits:

• Casual dress.
• Company events.
• Company pension.
• Employee discount.

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday.
• Weekend availability.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bournemouth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required).

Application question(s):

• Tell us about your personal ski holiday experiences. Where have you skied, how well do you know ski resorts, what do you love about skiing? Anything ski related that you can tell us to support your application?

Experience:

• Sales: 1 year (preferred).

Work Location: In person.