Sales Manager: Travel Industry (JSSMTI)

My client, a UK-based B2B Destination Management Company, is seeking a B2B Salesperson to join their team. You will be actively promoting products of UK, USA, Europe & Australia through cold calling, and identifying more selling possibilities and conducting market research to identify selling possibilities by evaluating travel company’s needs. The company offers comprehensive tourism services for FIT and Groups, with headquarters in the UK and 10+ sales and operations offices globally (USA, Switzerland, Australia, UAE, India), providing:

• Hotel and accommodation reservations
• Transfers and tours
• Multilingual guides
• Car rentals
• Train tickets
• City sightseeing tours
• Event management
• Bespoke ground services

Main job functions:

• Experience in B2B Sales within the travel industry.
• Good connections and networking with Local Travel Agents and tour operators.
• Conducting market research to identify selling possibilities by evaluating travel companies’ needs.
• Actively promoting products of UK, USA, Europe and Australia through cold calling and identifying more selling possibilities.
• Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations on products and services as per the local area requirement.
• Negotiate/close deals and handle queries from start to finish by coordinating with the operation.
• Collaborate with overseas team members to achieve better results.
• Maintain relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new products.
• Excellent communication skills with fluent spoken and written English.
• Should be able to achieve targets given by the head office.

Qualifications:

Grade 12

Desired candidate profile:

• Must have a passion for tourism.
• Must possess the ability to work in a fast-paced work environment and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be well organized with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments and be willing to get involved in projects with varying degrees of difficulty.
• Must demonstrate willingness to work as an individual and in a group.
• Must have a strong desire for tourism sales with focus on career and industry growth.
• Must establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients.
• Ability to establish/develop selective selling techniques for soliciting events and groups during dates most beneficial to the local visitor economy.
• Ability to make verbal presentations to groups of various sizes.
• Will demonstrate exceptional skills in sales, customer relations, communications, and problem solving.
• Ability to project and recognize potential problems and implement corrective action.

Remuneration: R25 000- R30 000

A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.