Educational Travel Advisor's

  • Location: Blackpool, Lancashire

  • Salary: Starting Salary: £21,498.75 per annum + commission (OTE up to 25K in first year!)

  • Published on: 15/03/2024

  • Closing Date: 29/03/2024

NST Travel Group, part of the PGL Beyond, are specialists in delivering unforgettable educational trips for schools and students – taking them on enriching adventures all across the globe!

We are currently looking for Educational Travel Advisor’s to join our team!


THE ROLE

We are actively recruiting for individuals who are passionate about meeting and exceeding sales targets and delivering excellence in customer service.

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone looking to develop a great future in educational travel and be part of a winning team of dedicated travel professionals.

Reporting to our NST Sales Manager, your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

  • Communicating effectively in a professional manner over the phone and via email with our customers.
  • Coordinate all aspects of a tour. This means liaising with support departments to ensure accommodation, transport and visits are booked to match the customer’s needs.
  • Achieve individual and team targets set within your selling location/Geographical portfolio
  • Deliver growth of enquiries, bookings, revenue and profit by securing business in a competitive market.
  • Develop customer loyalty through excellent relationship building and therefore delivering an exceptional customer experience.


IS THIS YOU?

To be considered for the role, the following skills and experience are essential:

  • Experience of liaising with customers by telephone and email.
  • Some experience of working to targets, with a track record of target achievement
  • Experience of building and maintain positive relationships with customers / suppliers
  • Experience of effectively managing and prioritising workloads autonomously using time management and organisational skills
  • IT Literate with knowledge and experience of using MS products (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Excellent verbal communication and listening skills
  • Strong accuracy and attention to detail with excellent written communication skill

What we offer....

  • A generous benefits package including birthday leave, pension with life assurance.
  • A huge range of employee rewards, discounts and perks for hundreds of retailers as part of our rewards gateway scheme, and free/discounted PGL holidays.
  • Health and wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme, mobile app, health cashback plan and financial wellbeing platform.
  • Enhanced Family friendly policies!
  • 20 days holiday rising to 25 days holiday after 1 years’ service plus bank holidays! Further annual leave increases with length of service and purchase if you need it!
  • Office Closure over Christmas and No weekend working!
  • Flexible working opportunities

We are currently only able to consider applications from individuals who have the legal right to work in the UK.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity...

We are committed to creating work environments free from discrimination, and bias, and filled with opportunities for all.

We commit to assessing both our applicants and our employees on fair job related criteria, and welcome applications from all members of the community.


Tania - Educational Travel Advisor

Hi, my name is Tania, and I work in the sales team here at NST. 

I have worked for NST for just over 10 years and I love it.  

My role is to arrange educational tours for school and college groups.

This involves communicating with teachers when they send in their initial enquiry to find out their trip requirements and setting up quotations to match their needs, I then follow up the quotation and work with them to the booking process. 

Upon return from their trip, I will make contact to see how the trip went and to build relationships with teachers so that they will come back to NST to book their next trip with me and also recommend colleagues to book trips with us too.

My role offers plenty of variety as I speak to teachers both on the phone and via email.  One day I could be working on a primary school trip to London, a history trip to Berlin and the next a performing arts trip to New York, every day is different!

I really enjoy working for NST, my colleagues are all fabulous and we help each other out and work together as a great sales team.   There are great opportunities for progression and personal development as well as opportunities to travel and experience educational trips to build destination knowledge too!   

Good luck if you are applying for the role and I hope to see you on the team soon!


Interested in Applying?

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are looking for, why not send us your CV and a short covering letter by clicking the ‘apply now’ button below!

Not quite got the experience we are looking for?

We have a range of opportunities for individuals with different levels of Industry skill and experience, including trainee (or re-trainee!) roles. To find out more about opportunities in Blackpool visit www.nstgroup.co.uk/careers, or for opportunities across PGL Group www.pgl.co.uk/jobs