Do you want to continue your travel industry career with a multi award-winning, well-established, independent travel agency? If you have experience as an Assistant Manager or as a Senior Travel Consultant (with some supervisory duties) within a Travel Agency, we are seeking a talented and passionate Assistant Branch Manager for this Travel Company's based in Market Harborough. This opportunity offers a competitive basic, commission incentives, discounts and many more fantastic company benefits.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION:

- To assist, lead, motivate and energise your team, identifying training and development needs, along with recognising your individual staff's potential and promoting it.

- Be hands on, taking enquiries from European packages to long-haul tailor-made itineraries

- To set targets in accordance to staffing levels, seasons and trends whilst suggesting ideas and solutions to improve revenue and profit.

- Work with the branch manager to ensure that your branch goes from strength-to-strength, reaching and exceeding targets

- To assist the development of staff

- To keep your product and brand knowledge up to date whilst having in-depth knowledge of the company's brochures and destinations and preferred suppliers

- Assist the day to day running of the branch in the absence of the branch manager

- Deal with complaints in a calm and diplomatic manner and be able to deal with a wide range of both internal and external customer issues

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

The successful candidate will ideally have relevant assistant travel management experience or have experience as a Senior Travel Consultant looking for the next step in your career with strong leadership skills, commercial awareness and the ability to inspire a team.

At all levels you'll need a passion for customer service and a strong track record in sales.

THE PACKAGE:

My client offers a very competitive salary up to £20,000 - £22,000 and additional commission, incentives and bonuses.

They also offer additional benefits including discounts and pension, which make it an attractive package. This is a great company to get in with and then progress up the career ladder with!

Interested??

If you are interested in this great opportunity please follow the link to 'Apply'. For more information please call Suzanne at Travel Trade Recruitment on 0121 450 9776 or email suzanne@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk