Travel Consultant - Edinburgh

Job No: F143532

Location: Edinburgh

• Exceptional opportunity for sales-minded individuals to join the highest earners in the travel industry
• Join a company featured in The Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies To Work For’ for 7 years running
• Unlimited earning potential, rapid career progression, fantastic team culture and incredible social events
• Award-winning benefits including discounted travel, health & well-being consultations, onsite massage and free financial planning

About Flight Centre

Flight Centre Limited is one of the best kept secrets in travel globally.  After opening our first store in Sydney way back in 1981, we have enjoyed remarkable growth every year since.  We are now one of the world's largest  travel agency groups with a rapidly expanding network extending throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong, India, China, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and, of course, the UK.

By investing heavily in our people and supporting rapid career progression, we have consistently been recognised as an employer of choice internationally. We have also featured in The Sunday Times "Top 100 Best Companies To Work For" for 7 years running with special awards for Leadership and Training and Development programmes.

Due to the huge growth demands of Flight Centre Ltd, we are always looking for exceptional people to join our team and become part of our success story.

About the Opportunity

Flight Centre is on the look out for talented Travel Sales Consultants to join their Edinburgh teams. This varied role will see you selling business and leisure travel to your clients, ultimately providing outstanding customer service while you manage every aspect of their trip, from organising flights to arranging visas.

Not only will you have the opportunity to sell a product you love, but you will benefit from an extremely generous commission structure, unbeatable team culture, and award-winning perks.

What's Involved?

Sales is a major component of this role. The more you sell, the more you earn – so when you're not bringing new business in, you'll concentrate on maximising the revenue from existing clients - which means offering seriously good customer service. That's where your passion for travel and your profession comes in - being knowledgeable and enthusiastic is what it's all about.

What You'll Need

Top travel consultants come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds and industries, demonstrating a colourful spectrum of qualities and quirks. However, a sales-focused attitude is essential, as are the following traits: 

Sales skills: You will be target driven and tenacious
High flyers: A strong academic background is essential; minimum requirement is 3 A-Levels (or equivalent) (A-C)
Globe trotter: A passion for travel and an incurable case of the travel bug is vital
People person: You will be a strong communicator with the ability to make your clients feel loved  

Finally, ambition is a key ingredient. Retail sales may be where your career journey begins, but certainly not where it ends. Prove yourself in the sales arena and you could lead your own store or take on a new challenge in the company's global head office.  

What You'll Gain:

Joining an award-winning company that is built on the success of its staff, you will gain three weeks of comprehensive training from this company's home-grown success stories. Learning from some of the best in the travel business, you will sharpen your sales skills and plump up your product knowledge to ensure you succeed in this role.

Travel Sales Consultants will receive a healthy base salary of £15,000, plus an excellent uncapped commission structure, which makes the top sales professionals some of the highest earners in the industry. Our top consultants earned in excess of £120K last year – do you have what it takes to be one of them?

As part of the global Flight Centre Group, we also offer award-winning benefits including:

• Discounted travel and access to incentives from the world's top travel providers
• Global social events that are the envy of the industry
• Exceptional career progression programme with worldwide opportunities
• Free health and financial advice, onsite massage and fitness sessions
• Opportunityto take a three month sabbatical after five years

If you have global ambition and top-notch sales skills, fill out the application form below and tell us why you should join the team.