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Jobs and Careers within our Business and Administration Support Teams

Our Business teams are filled with professionals work hard to ensure our customer care, sales and travel specialists can focus their energies on the Customer, rather than focussing their time dealing with complexity and business bureaucracy.

Our teams in Marketing, IT, Finance, and HR make sure all our people have the right tools and information to keep delivering the quality products and services our Brands are renowned for.They are the teams behind-the-scenes, making sure we continue to develop better, faster, simpler processes to lead us to greater success.

Putting the Customer at the Heart of Business Decisions

Our Business Professionals are as passionate about great customer service as our customer contact teams and travel specialists. Before a decision is made in any part of our business, we ask ourselves "how will this benefit the customer?", if we can find no benefit, then it's back to the drawing board. 

 

Roles for Business Professionals

Jobs in IT and Technology

Our in-house IT Teams provide opportunities for a range of IT and Technology Professionals.

As a specialist Travel Company, we need something a little different to help our teams provide an effective, efficient service to our customers, therefore the majority of our IT solutions are either built by our in house teams, or heavily customised and developed to meet the needs of our organisation.

Our Software Development Team members use their technical expertisecreativity, pragmatism, and solutions focus to develop valuable systems that make life easier for both our staff and our customers.

Working as part of a wider Education Division team with colleagues in both Blackpool and our Sister Company in Ross on Wye, our Software Development team members are involved in the design, development, testing, implementation and support of large scale change programmes, as well as the day to day enhancements and fixes making the roles fast-paced, with plenty of variety.

Our IT Operations Team members use their technical expertise across networking, technical support, telecoms infratructure and server management to help our teams and individuals  make the most of technology to ensure effective communication with each other, and our customers.

Working as part of a wider Education Division team with colleagues in both Blackpool and our Sister Company in Ross on Wye, our IT Operations team members regularly travel across the UK and Europe to help our Education Division Brands to "keep the lights on" and ensure great experiences for our travelling groups.

We also have opportunities for Business Analysts, Project Managers, Development and Operations Managers, and MI Developers at our Blackpool and Ross on Wye Head Offices.

 

Jobs and Careers in Finance

Based at our Blackpool Site, our Finance team provides opportunities for people with a passion for numbers, attention to detail, and strong administration and IT skills.

If you join us as a Finance Assistant you will be responsible for providing accounts payable, accounts receivable, and management accounting support to our NST UK, NST Ireland, and StudyLink Brands.

Responsibilities include;

  • authorisation and payment of supplier invoices for UK and overseas accommodation, visits, and transport elements,
  • reconciliation of bank accounts
  • expenses management and administration
  • managing foreign currency and exchange
  • supporting the production of monthly and annual accounts
  • answering queries from customers and suppliers

Our Senior roles in our Finance team, for accountancy professionals of experienced finance professionals enable you to work closely with senior management to ensure maximum business profitability, sound financial and commercial management, and auditing.

Marketing Roles and Careers

Our Marketing teams in Blackpool, Lancashire and at our European Study Tours office in Hertford manage the individual personalities of our Brands in the market place.

They put together engaging offline literature, such as brochures, flyers, and the design for some of our educational resources, as well as online content for websites, social media, and email marketing campaigns.

Our marketing professionals work closely with our Product Managers, taking responsibility for the online and offline communication of a range of product areas, as well as getting involved in external customer focus groups, market research and feedback analysis, PR and merchandising campaigns, and internal communications and marketing events for staff.

Administration and Support roles

Our Administration and Support team members work at all of our sites, playing a vital role in supporting our teams and customers.

Working particularly closely with our Operations (Customer Service) and Sales teams, our Administrators ensure the right information and paperwork associated with our school tours is received by our customers and suppliers at the right time,

A number of our support administrators have grown their careers with us, developing through internal training, secondment opportunities, external courses, and formal qualifications to become Tour Coordinators, Marketing Assistants, and Sales team members ,so there is plenty of opportunity to take your career further.

What do we look for in our Business and Support team members?


    As with any role in our business, we expect individuals within our Business and Support teams to live our core motto of Better, Faster, Simpler, Together, along side their skills and experience within their particular specialism.

    For some of our Business and Professional roles, we also expect a relevant qualification or solid experience in their particular field of expertise.

    The range of specialist skills and experiences that sit within our Business and Support Administration teams is hugely diverse, but there are 4 key qualities that every single team members possesses;

    • Their enthusiasm put our internal and external customers first,
    • Their positive can-do, action focussed attitude,
    • Their desire to make a positive difference to others 
    • Their ability to work effectively as a supportive team player to the business and each other

    These are the key attributes which makes our Business and Support Team members stand out from the crowd.

5 Benefits of joining our Business and Administration Teams

1. Support, Coaching and Development

Our team members receive regular 1:1 support and coaching from their line manager as part of our commitment to continuously developing their skills to achieve goal after goal. We also hold annual performance reviews where we celebrate positive performance, reflect on achievements and development needs, and discuss career progression opportunities and aspirations.

2. Competitive Salary and Bonus

We ensure our Business and Administrative Support Team members are rewarded fairly for their contribution to delivering customer satisfaction. We regularly review our reward structure to ensure we remain competitive in the marketplace.

3. Professional Development

We recognise the importance of continuous development for our Business Professionals, and the importance of developing our support team members to become our Sales and Customer Service consultants of the future. We offer a range of internal work based learning opportunities and qualifications to our team members to help them reach their full potential

4. Flexible Work Opportunities

We recognise that some of our business professionals and support team members need "time out" to concentrate of developing the next big innovation to our system, or conducting quiet research. Where we can, we enable our people to work flexibly, focussing them on results, rather than the 9-5

5. Great Team Environment

Our Business Teams work together providing specialist support enabling our business to run smoothly. Each team has it's own unique personality, and way of working, from our relaxed "dress down" IT teams, to the Cliff Richard calendar gracing the wall of our Finance team area. We keep our teams happy by letting them be who they are.

These are just some of the fantastic roles on offer in our Business and Support teams across our offices in Blackpool, Dublin and Hertford.

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