Local Travel Advisor

Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning Travel business as a self-employed Local Travel Advisor (current intake months are June 2024 and September 2024). This is a rare proposition that allows passionate, entrepreneurial travel lovers to build their own business with the backing of a trusted, globally recognised brand.

We’ll provide you with 1^st rate training, 121 coaching to help you achieve your business goals, access to a huge range of holiday destinations & suppliers along with the opportunity to experience the holidays you’ll be selling and give you all the support you need to build a successful travel business of your own.

Not to mention unlimited earning potential, flexible growth, IT equipment and phone system at no cost, industry experts at your finger tips and a dedicated business development manager to help you grow your business and achieve your goals.

So If you’ve a passion for travel and an entrepreneurial spirit, you’re organised, flexible and have the networking skills to grow a customer base within the over 50’s market, you’re just the sort of person we’re looking for

Main Responsibilities

Its simple, build your business and sell our holidays.

With over 70s years of experience we’ve got pretty exceptional at delivering holidays. We’ve won multiple awards, have fantastic guest retention and are one of the UK’s most trusted holiday providers but we’re just getting started.

We’d like you to market, network, promote and sell our travel holidays across your network. This can be done flexibly to suit your lifestyle. Put in the hours whenever you see fit. The more you sell, the more commission you will receive.

The Ideal Candidate

• Availability for June or September induction
• Experience within the travel and tourism industry
• Ability to self-motivate and work flexibly
• Ideally you will have a network you can utilise to help your success
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Ability to work on complex IT booking systems with strong working knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint

This vacancy is to register your interest until our official hiring process goes live in March 2024 ready for our June 2024 induction dates. Please ensure you have done the relevant research on our product offering before applying. 

About The Company

At Saga Travel Group, we’re driven by the aim of creating a place where older people are valued for their experiences. We’re a dynamic and forward-looking business with a clear, single-minded purpose: to deliver exceptional experiences every day for our colleagues and customers.

Our values underpin our approach and help guide us. We work with precision, pace, curiosity, empathy and collaboration to create a unique environment for our teams.

The vision for the Saga Travel Group is to build the travel company for the experienced traveller. We already have world-class escorted Saga and Titan touring businesses and now building a new dynamic, digital travel business that will deliver fresh, innovative product.

When you join Saga Travel Group you will work across two leading brands and play a vital role not only in our growth but in our mission to deliver lasting memories for our customers seeing them return again and again.

As an STG colleague you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us.

We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Moving Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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