Senior Travel Specialist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Recruit for Africa Full time

**Senior Travel Specialist | JHB | Lodge and Safari Group**:
**PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:

- 4 to 7 years of Travel Specialist experience - renumeration will be dependent on experience.

**KEY OUTPUTS**:

- Creative planning and designing of guest itineraries (according to their budget) or out of the box planning and designing of leisure FIT tailor-made itineraries.
- Managing the reservations process for bookings from quote to finalising, including invoicing and travel documents.
- Consistent and clear communication with agents, sales teams, preferred supplier partners and colleagues.
- Working hours early and late shift, and emergency duty, on a weekly rotational basis.
- Proactive selling of the Group’s products and services ensuring the best possible experience for the guests.

**SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED**:

- Understanding of travel industry channels
- Excellent computer skills including:

- Tourplan advantageous
- ESS is essential.
- Good understanding of terms and conditions, product knowledge, third party and the Group’s product destinations. A good knowledge of South Africa, Southern and East Africa preferable - more training will be provided should the applicant prove successful.
- Calm and professional manner of servicing agents and guests
- Problem-solving skills
- Experiential creativity (crafting the ultimate guest experiences)
- Understanding of quantitative and qualitative data analysis and being able to make decisions based on these analyses.
- Understanding and knowledge of the different markets in which the Group operates in
- Relevant understanding of business to create and formulate a strategy and make commercial decisions
- Sales process and methodologies

**PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS**:

- Good interpersonal skills
- Sense of urgency
- Passionate about delighting guests
- Diligence and self-motivation to meet deadlines and keep on top of your job.
- Willingness/ability to share information and teach and inspire others.
- An independent, curious and “can do it” nature

**Personal growth**:

- Excellent communication skills (E.g. verbal, written, reporting and body language)
- Time management
- Teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Conflict management and resolution
- Attention to detail
- Administration and organization skills
- P-drive Navigation
- Paperless filing
- Speed Reading and typing

**Salary package**:

- Salary will depend on years of experience and skills

**ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED.**

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